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690L
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English
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Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time. Laz Weathers wants out of Jet City, the trailer park in Seattle where he lives. When he gets an offer to move in with a host family and pitch for a high-profile high school baseball team, he knows it is his last chance to impress major-league scouts and start down the road to becoming...
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Publisher:
Utopia
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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A SXSW Official Selection, GOLDEN ARM, is a feel-good female buddy comedy from director Maureen Bharoocha (NBC's Superstore, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live) about a wimpy baker who gets roped into the world of ladies arm wrestling by her truck driving best friend. Featuring a who's who from Amy Poehler's famed Upright Citizens Brigade including: Mary Holland (HBO's Veep, Starz's Blunt Talk, Comedy Bang! Bang!), Betsy Sodaro (Adam Sandler's Hubie Halloween,...
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In this classic Oscar-nominated drama, illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) gets out of prison and decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer, small-time con man Schwiefka (Robert Strauss), and Frankie's old drug dealer, Louis (Darren McGavin), re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually...
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"The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is...
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Publisher:
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
English
Book cover for "The Golden Arm Gentleman".
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Publisher:
Palmetto Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Johnny Unitas' great accolades achieved on the football field were legendary. There have been many volumes written about his achievements, and many people call him the real football GOAT (Greatest of All Time). But this fascinating, feel-good book by D.P. Smith is more about Johnny's incredible persona off the field, his relationship with the community and his true fans, and how he was adored by a whole generation. A generation that was fortunate...
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Author Nelson Algren reads from his award-winning novel, The Man with the Golden Arm. The passage tells of Frankie Machine's wife, Sophie, who confined to a wheelchair since a drunk-driving accident caused by Frankie. The narration implies that Sophie's paralysis is psychological in origin, and is unconsciously used to keep Frankie with her. Frankie is in hiding, being sought by the police for murder. Sophie waits anxiously for his return, recalling...
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Publisher:
Mute
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Book cover for "The Man With the Golden Arm (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)".
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Publisher:
Geffen Records
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Book cover for "The Light of a Golden Day, the Arms of the Night".
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Publisher:
Social Registry
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
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Publisher:
Rickety Fence Music
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Book cover for "Husbands & lovers".
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English
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"Connecticut, 2022. Mallory Dunne has spent her life trying to be a good mother to her son, Sam. Raising him alone is hard, even with the help of her sister. Two years ago, Sam ingested a toxic mushroom and fell into a coma. Now recovered, he needs a new kidney to live a normal life, forcing Mallory to track down his father in the hope that they're a match. Her journey to find him again transports her back to the summer they spent on the paradise...
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"On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake. When they arrive at the scene, their spotlight reveals a gruesome sight: a severed arm floating just beneath the surface. As day breaks, the warden dive team recovers not one but two naked corpses: a dismembered man and the married woman with whom he was having an affair....
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Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 710L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart...
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970L
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5 stars
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This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year...
Book cover for "The mysterious affair at Styles".
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Agatha Christie's first novel, introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to...

17. Poppy

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Poppy stories volume 3
Dimwood Forest volume 2
Lexile measure:
670L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stands an old charred oak. A great horned owl, Mr. Ocax, waits there. With his piercing gaze, he surveys the lands he calls his own, watching for the creatures he considers his subjects. None dares disobey him, until the night a courageous deer mouse name Poppy makes a stand, only to find herself in terrible danger. To lead her family to a better life, will Poppy battle Mr. Ocax to the end?"--Back cover.
Book cover for "Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass".
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
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English
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4.3 stars
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"For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family--by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again--tells the tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II. When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris...
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Things along America's southern border are rapidly reaching the boiling point. American girls are being snatched from their homes, ranches are burning, and armed Mexican troops cross the border at will in support of narcotics smugglers and illegal immigrants. By day, Americans take up arms and plan reprisals. An all-out border war is no longer inconceivable--it's happening! On assignment for the British Secret Service, a man leads a mysterious expedition...