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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.
63) Chances are
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today -- Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since...
64) Doubles
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Slow Smith is in a slump. Hes a professional tennis player stuck in his hometown, serving to an empty court. His wife is in a coma and hes afraid hes to blame. Left behind are her Polaroids, obsessive daily records of their life together. Meanwhile Kaz, Slows lifelong doubles partner, is traveling the world while playing with someone new. Then one afternoon his old coach Manny appears in a dumpy Fiat convertible and...
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
The gambler: Kenny Rogers stars as the high-rolling frontier gambler Brady Hawkes, who has been summoned to Yuma, California, to rescue the son he never knew. Along the way, he befriends Billy Montana, a young Easterner who fancies himself a professional poker player. Brady teaches Billy a few lessons--about cards and also about life--and the two men end up forming a strong team.
The coward of the county: A small town preacher must deal with his...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Paul is in his mid-'20s and is a man with little in the way of ambition. Among his friends, Paul has a reputation as a ladies' man, but he's not at all good with long-term relationships. Deep down, Paul senses that he would like to lead a different life, and that feeling becomes all the more clear when he meets Noel. Paul and Noel soon fall in love, but for Paul this is a different sort of relationship than he's accustomed to.
68) Silent witness
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
In Ohio, a school teacher accused of murdering a pregnant student appeals to lawyer Tony Lord to defend him. For Lord it will be a tricky business. As a youth he was a suspect in the murder of a local girl, a crime never solved, and the town has not forgotten. By the author of The Final Judgment.
69) Goodbye Solo
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A Senegalese cab driver in North Carolina befriends an elderly fare who has given up on life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
On a cold night in Holland two men meet and change each other's lives for ever. Max Delius - a hedonistic, yet brilliant astronomer who loves fast cars, nice clothes and beautiful women - picks up Onno Quist, a cerebral chaotic philogist who cannot bear the ordinariness of everyday life. Despite their differences, they fast become great friends. And when they learn they were conceived on the same day, it is clear that their meeting is no coincidence....
73) Close to home
Author
Series
Inspector Banks volume 13
Language
English
Description
Unable to forgive himself for his possible role in the disappearance of a childhood friend, Detective Inspector Alan Banks finds himself confronting the unsolved case thirty-five years later when his friend's body is discovered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In a moment of crisis, Richard is saved by a passing stranger, Jake. The two men, both at turning points, become firm friends and on a whim set out for adventure, jumping aboard the first ship they see. Their journeys take them to Norway and across Europe, cementing a passionate friendship. But it is in bohemian Paris that Richard finally meets the woman who enables him to fulfil his own artistic promise.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.
79) Boy meets boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more.
80) Sideways
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
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