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Language
English
Description
"A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The greatest athletes in the world today are neither the Olympic champions nor the stars of professional sports, but the "Marathon Monks" of Japan's sacred Mount Hiei. Over a seven year training period, these "running Buddha" figuratively circle the globe on foot.
Author
Series
Middle school novels volume 08
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Life in middle school is finally starting to seem bearable -- until Rafe spots his grandmother standing on the free-meal line at the local soup kitchen. In order to help bring in more money, Rafe concocts a brilliant plan -- a dog-walking business that soon turns into a huge money-making neighborhood empire." -- Provided by publisher.
14) A step of faith
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Now nearly halfway through his trek, Alan Christoffersen walks from South Dakota to Memphis, Tennessee. He covers more than 800 miles on foot, but it's the people he meets along the way who give the journey its true meaning.
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Walking to school with Mama, Gogo or Tata is fun. But riding high on Papa's shoulders is the BEST! On my Papa's Shoulders invites young readers along on a little boy and his Papa's walk to school, where they have their own special way of saying goodbye.
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English
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A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gathers in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jane, a broke dog-walker newly arrived in town, meets Eddie Rochester, she can't believe her luck. Eddie is handsome, rich and lives alone in an opulent mansion since his beloved wife drowned in a boating accident a year ago. Eddie can give Jane everything she's always wanted: stability, acceptance, and a picture-perfect life. But what Jane doesn't know is that Eddie is keeping a secret -- a big secret. And when the truth comes out, the consequences...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane's distinctive voice,...
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