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1) James
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From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ray Romano's eight-day drive through the south on a stand-up comedy tour becomes more than he bargains for when longtime friend and opening act, Tom Caltabiano, brings a film student along to document their thousand-mile journey. Together, all three struggle with Ray's obsessions, phobias, and insecurities.
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English
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Tony Webster has always made the very reasonable assumption that he could trust his memories, but when he's forced to revisit his past, everything he believes about himself and his life is challenged. The fact is that Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, never gave much thought to his past at all until his closest childhood friends' return with a vengeance -- one of them from the grave and another maddeningly present. Tony thought he'd left all this uncertainly...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the unique bonds of male friendship among three men experiencing the changes and challenges of mid-life. They have been best friends since college but now, in their 40s, are navigating through the second act of their lives.
8) The loft
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Five guys conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city, a place where they can indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved. Paranoia seizes them as everyone begins to suspect one another.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
If laughter is contagious, these guys should be quarantined! Now long time best friends, Q, Sal, Joe and Murr, are back on DVD with Impractical Jokers: The Complete Second Season and are challenging each other to the most outrageous dares and uproarious stunts ever to be caught on hidden camera!
10) Made
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Bobby and Ricky, long-time pals in Los Angeles, fail as amateur boxers. They're recruited by their mob-connected boss to make what should be an easy delivery to an East Coast kingpin named Ruiz. By the time they reach New York, Bobby's no-nonsense approach has been bulldozed by Ricky's hopelessly false bravado, which he's blithely absorbed from too many mobster movies. While Ricky invites disaster with reckless ambition, Bobby just wants a happier,...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It is a genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West. In a land controlled by feudal barons, Into the Badlands tells the story of a ruthless, well-trained great warrior Sunny and a young boy M.K. who embark on a spiritual journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment.
Publisher
Elevation Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The residents of Letterkenny belong to one of three groups: hicks, skids, and hockey players. The three groups are constantly feuding with each other over seemingly trivial matters, often ending with someone getting their butt kicked.
13) Down Low
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One wild night, a repressed man, a twink, a happy ending, and all the lives they ruin along the way"--
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Publisher
CollinsLiving
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st US ed.
Language
English
Description
A treasury of inspiring true stories of heroism, exploration, and sacrifice invites boys to learn from the examples of such role models as the Apollo XIII crew and Scott of the Antarctic, in a reference that pays tribute to classic virtues.
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English
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In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
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English
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
Publisher
Elevation Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The residents of Letterkenny belong to one of three groups: hicks, skids, and hockey players. The three groups are constantly feuding with each other over seemingly trivial matters, often ending with someone getting their butt kicked.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Season Two finds Sunny and M.K. separated and scattered to the wind, each imprisoned in unlikely places. While M.K. struggles to control his powers, Sunny is determined to fight his way back into the Badlands to find his family or die trying.
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Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"With hundreds of full-color photos of outrageous, not-so-outrageous, expensive, cheap, and downright spectacular Man Caves and a wealth of budget-saving tips and tricks, THE MAN CAVE BOOK shows even the most saddled man how to create the refuge of his dreams"--