Towles, Amor

Summary: "In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California, where they can start...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Harris, Nathan

Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry--freed by the Emancipation Proclamation--seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021

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Walter, Jess

Summary: The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar, and who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

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Zusak, Markus

Summary: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Prebble, Stuart

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2015

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Cunningham, Michael

Summary: Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up; he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. At the same time, in Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, a struggling musician, is trying to write a song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Barrett, haunted by the light, turns...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Lahiri, Jhumpa

Summary: Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan, charismatic and impulsive, finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Higgins, Jack

Summary: Twin boys Harry and Max Kelso are separated at the age of twelve when their parents divorce, leaving Harry in the U.S. with his father and sending Max to live in Germany with his mother, but the two meet again in the early days of World War II, this time as pilots on opposite sides of the conflict.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2008

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