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Caputo, Philip. Child, Lee Ford, Jamie. Gaiman, Neil. Hill, Ernest Hill, Gregory Phi, Bao Sharma, AkhilPhi, Bao
Summary: "As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PHISharma, Akhil
Summary: Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAChild, Lee
Summary: Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His plan is to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road in rural New Hampshire, deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What's one extra day? and takes the detour. At the same...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIHill, Ernest
Summary: Tyrone Stokes was imprisoned for shooting a man in a convenience store. His wife, Pauline, saw her chance to end their marriage and raise their son, Marcus, on her own. Now Tyrone has returned to Brownsville, Louisiana, to discover that Marcus needs help. Marcus has been convicted of the rape and murder of a young white girl.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHill, Gregory
Summary: Shakespeare Williams heads home to his family's farm in eastern Colorado and finds his widowed, senile father living in squalor. Reconnecting with his high school buddies, Shakespeare hatches a semiserious plan to save the failing farm by robbing the bank that has been slowly sucking the farm dry.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHill, Gregory
Summary: Arriving at his family's farm in Eastern Colorado to discover his father's home in a terrible state because of the dishonest machinations of a corrupt banker, Shakespeare Williams falls in with former classmates in a plot to rob the bank that has cheated them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILGaiman, Neil.
Summary: His past marked by his father's embarrassing taunts and untimely death, Fat Charlie meets the brother he never knew and is introduced to new and exciting ways to spend his time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GAIGaiman, Neil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION GaimanGaiman, Neil.
Summary: His past marked by his father's embarrassing taunts and untimely death, Fat Charlie meets the brother he never knew and is introduced to new and exciting ways to spend his time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GaiCaputo, Philip.
Summary: Sybil, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious and perilous journey her grandfather forced his three teenage sons to undertake at the beginning of the twentieth century, makes discoveries that force her to change the way she thinks about herself, her family, and her country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPFord, Jamie.
Summary: When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, a man embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009