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Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
7) The verdict
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Terry Flynt gets the chance to defend a millionaire accused of murder, he knows that the case could make his career, but the accused man is Flynt's greatest enemy--can he defend a man who ruined his life?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Retired attorney Penn Cage, best friends with respected doctor Drew Elliott since their days at St. Stephen's Prep in Natchez, Mississippi, where they both now sit on the school board, learns more about human nature and modern youth than he ever wanted to know when he begins to investigate the murder of popular student Kate Townsend at the request of Drew, who has become a prime suspect after revealing he had been having an affair with the girl.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly...
10) Brave deeds
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning eight hours, [this] novel follows a squad of six AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross war-torn Baghdad on foot to attend the funeral of their leader, Staff Sergeant Rafe Morgan. In an inhospitable landscape, these men recall the most ancient of warriors while portraying a cross section of twenty-first century America--sometimes strong, sometimes weak, but subject to the same human flaws as all of us"--
11) Breakaway
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Jason Marshall's younger sister passes away, he knows he can count on his three best friends and soccer teammates--Mario, Jordie, and Chick--to be there for him. With a grief-crippled mother and a father who's not in the picture, he needs them more than ever. But when Mario starts hanging out with a rough group of friends and Jordie finally lands the girl of his dreams, Jason is left to fend for himself while maintaining a strained relationship...
12) Absolute friends
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.
13) Chances are
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"[A] story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental...
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