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Publisher:
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
Publisher:
AMC Networks
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize - including trying to learn how to use the internet.
4. Caught
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Language:
English
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The acclaimed author of February "combin{es} the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller" (National Post). Lisa Moore, a "Canada Reads" winner and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year author, introduces a dangerously appealing new protagonist unlike any she's imagined before: a modern Billy the Kid . . . Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges...
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Series:
Mountain Man Mysteries volume 1
Language:
English
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Lehigh Carter fears only two things: dogs and women. His fears are about to become very real. In the small town of Clarkesville, in the heart of the Oregon Cascade Mountains, a humble forester stumbles into the complex world of crooked cops and power-hungry politicians… all because he rescued a stray, injured dog on the highway. Lehigh Carter didn't really mean to adopt the dog. But his ex-fiancée, Stacy McBride, convinces him to do it, with a...
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English
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From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities-from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments-that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them. Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way-as expressions of ideas, often conflicting,...
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Publisher:
Down East Books
Pub. Date:
2005
Language:
English
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Lost at a highway rest stop on a trip to Maine, a kitten is chased by a dog, injured in a fall, and attacked by a herring gull. Exhausted, she is rescued by two innkeepers, who-with some reluctance-agree to take her home to Rockport. To this day, Pumpkin rules the roost at Strawberry Hill, greeting guests, walking them down to the water's edge, and generally entertaining both her adopted "parents" and their clients.
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Publisher:
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
At the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's new study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism. Looking specifically at a time when citizens of the United States first took to rail and then highway to become sightseers in their own country, Clark traces the rhetorical function of a wide-ranging set of tourist experiences. He explores how the symbolic experiences Americans share...
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Publisher:
Ventigo Media Spółka
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories, or dime novels, published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler. His stories are well-plotted adventures and his slang and dialect heavy narration is funny as hell. Deadwood Dick was an orphan, who was adopted, mistreated, and then ran away from home to become a notorious outlaw. Originally from New England, he moved to the town of Deadwood, where he became the leader...
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Publisher:
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Wags to Riches: Emma Lu is the true story of the authors second rescue dog. Emma lost her left eye in an accident before she was rescued from a North Carolina highway in 2001. She was healed and adopted into the authors loving home. Emma is a great example of how to overcome obstacles and accept differences in others. Her story proves how much innocent animals deserve and need our help. Readers of all ages will enjoy reading about Emmas positive spirit...
12. Dead Will Rise
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Publisher:
Joshua Guess
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Kell McDonald killed the world. It is a truth that haunts him every day of his life. It is a fact etched so deeply in his mind that every waking moment is haunted by his sins. But for his choices, the dead would not walk. Men would not travel the decaying highways hunting for victims. Communities of survivors would not have to struggle to lay the foundation of a new society. Forced to migrate from his adopted home, Kell finds himself an unlikely leader....
13. Dusty
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Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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When Dusty, starving and sick, is picked up on the side of the highway after losing his pack, he's lucky to be alive. The tiny Chihuahua is small enough to fit in two hands and needs special care to be nursed back to health before he can be adopted out to a forever family. Dusty recovers at the Sterling Center, where they train Search and Rescue dogs. Though the Sterlings don't think a dog as small as Dusty can do the tireless work of a SAR dog, an...
14. Dusty
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Series:
Rescue dogs volume 2
Publisher:
Scholastic
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
Description:
When Dusty, starving and sick, is picked up on the side of the highway after losing his pack, he's lucky to be alive. The tiny Chihuahua is small enough to fit in two hands and needs special care to be nursed back to health before he can be adopted out to a forever family. Dusty recovers at the Sterling Center, where they train Search and Rescue dogs. Though the Sterlings don't think a dog as small as Dusty can do the tireless work of a SAR dog, an...
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Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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Bandit is an adorable black and white Shih Tzu with a mask-like marking over his eyes. Lizzie discovers him at a highway rest stop restaurant. He was abandoned by his owers because he needs an operation and they couldn't afford it. Lizzie and her family take Bandit in and begin fundraising for the expensive procedure. Maria and her Uncle Teo are also a big help. Maria and Lizzie establish competing dog-walking businesses to raise funds. Everyone who...
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Publisher:
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
"Neighbors, friends, and hedgehogs--they're all looking for a new path. Frances Mathews doesn't get out much since her husband died, but that doesn't stop her from jump-starting a campaign to create a hedgehog highway in Hilltop Place--feeding stations, holes at the bottoms of gates and fences, and wild garden areas for hibernation. To Frances's delight, her neighbours are on board. Mostly. There are Jess and Michael, whose marriage is cracking under...
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Publisher:
IntroBooks
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Is life barren of risk? A majority of the human population will surely disagree. The entire flora and fauna on earth are susceptible to big risk elements regardless of shapes and sizes. So are human activities in particular. A commuter risks being hit by an onrushing vehicle on a highway; a student is at risk of failing in the examination and also an entrepreneur is surrounded by a barrage of big risk factors that might lead to losing the entire capital...
18. The Trip
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Who wants to take a road trip with two old, bickering women and a complete stranger? Not Jill Savoy. She finds herself behind the wheel of her father's sacred Winnebago anyway, responsible for her grandmother and adopted aunt, both of whom are mischievous teenagers in old bodies, and then there's Shay. The last thing on Shay Macaluso's mind was a vacation. Fresh out of a relationship, she was looking forward to beginning her new life, but her aunt...
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Publisher:
Kirk House Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Set in the late 1970s, Trudy finds herself abandoned at a truck stop by Harold Faust, the attorney who counseled her through an unwanted pregnancy and adoption. The unlikely hero of the story is Mac, a trucker, Vietnam Vet and survivor of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Surprised to find Trudy, Mac asked, "What the hell are you doing here?" Mac offers to take Trudy back to Milson, a Midwestern city where they both now live, connected by Jackie, Mac's...
20. The Loop
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a mysterious past and beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter." Convinced that heeding the bird's wisdom will lead him to answers about himself he so desperately seeks, Lyman combines his night job as a courtesy patrolman, circling the highway that loops...