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Author
Series
Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Learning that he has less than a year to live, Gavin Guile struggles to resolve problems in the form of refugee needs, an illegitimate son, and a treacherous ex-fiancée in a world where out-of-control magic forces him to seek help from the brother he betrayed years earlier.
63) Many a river
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In far West Texas their camp is attacked by Comanche raiders and the elder Barfields are killed and scalped. The younger boy, Todd, is taken captive by the Indians. The older son, Jeffrey, manages to hide and is rescued by the militia men. Jeffrey is taken in by a home-steading family, while Todd is sold, for a rifle and gunpowder, to a Comanchero trader...
Author
Language
English
Description
"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
65) Doble Fudge
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
Description
His younger brother Fudge's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for 12-year-old Peter Hatcher.
66) Final spin
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel of brotherhood and the search for happiness ... Johnny is stuck--living at home and watching after his brother while working as a stock boy ... But when he and his best friend, Goat, see an opportunity to break free of the monotony and take care of Johnny's brother all in one shot, they jump on it. Now they're on the run and about to find out the price for freedom. A moving and fast-paced thriller ... [and] a gripping exploration...
67) Little cruelties
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An uneasy but powerful read from bestselling author Liz Nugent that delves into the darkness visited upon a family of three working-class Irish brothers, exploring the ways in which families can wreak emotional damage across generations and doom men to give in to their own worst impulses in service to a culture that has abandoned them"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Greta Mercy's brothers disappear from the Barlowe Theater in 1915, she will do anything to uncover what threat lurks beneath the stage. Decades later, revealing what happened to the boys falls on Kit Boyd, who must determine whether she's willing to pay the price to end the pattern of evil that has marked their hometown for a century"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of ?69, brothers Eugene and Bill meet the mysterious and rebellious Ligeia. But Ligeia?s influence over Eugene has caused a rift in the brothers? relationship. Decades later, the estranged brothers are leading separate lives, but someone from their past has reappeared. Could this bring the boys together or destroy them completely? 272pp., 75K
70) Forsaken: Bk. 1
Author
Series
Plain fear volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Schmidt, a young Amish woman mourning the mysterious death of her beloved Jacob, must decide between two brothers, between good and evil. When she learns her first love is now the vampire Akiva, she must forsake him and cling to a new love, a lasting love, one that will save her soul"--From publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America 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 their...
73) Nine words Max
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Maximilian is a prince who loves to talk. His three brothers, Wilt, Kurt, and Trip are the opposite. When a curse is put on Max that limits him to speaking only nine words at a time, the brothers are delighted. But when the fearsome Queen Spark arrives with her army, the brothers soon learn the value of Max's love of words.
Author
Series
Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Urgle and two other Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit--where boys are abandoned at birth and learn to fend for themselves and rear their younger brothers--embark on a quest to rescue Urgle's brother Cubby, who's been carried off by monsters into the forest from which no one has ever returned.
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that his brother is missing in action in the Pacific theater, Theo McCallum, a gunner on a B-24 Liberator returns to his unit in Europe to continue the war because he feels that the other men in his unit feel like family to him--and he cannot believe that his brother is actually dead.
76) The blood mirror
Author
Series
Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four--and those are falling before the White King's armies. Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold a great magical genius. But Gavin has no magic at all. Worse, in this prison, Gavin may not be alone"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two princes of the immortal Sithi--beloved Hakatri and mercurial Ineluki--are bound by pride and love in their quest to slay the greatest of the monstrous dragons, as Ineluki has vowed to do, this traps Hakatri in a never-ending cycle of indescribable pain and prophetic dreams, while Ineluki is destroyed by guilt and self-hatred for his role in his brother's agony.
78) Away west
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon jungle, a disease is spreading. To those who survive, it grants enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition. But the miracle may be the sinister survival mechanism of a fungal organism, manipulating the infected into serving it. Paul Johns, a mycologist, is convinced the fungal host is the next stage of human evolution, while his brother...
80) The kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
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