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2) Buddy games
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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After six lifelong friends have a five-year falling out, Bob, aka "The Bobfather," reunites his pals for the Buddy Games, an insane competition of absurd physical and mental challenges with the chance to win a $150,000 pot. Now all bets are off as the determined dudes fight, claw, and party for the big bucks in this star-studded bro-fest.
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English
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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...
4) House party
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck, and about to lose the roofs over their heads and freshly fired from their low-lift jobs as house cleaners the pair needs a huge windfall to make their problems go away. In a 'what the hell?' move, they decide to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion, the site of their last cleaning job, which just happens to belong...
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Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one9781646221509 stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols...
Author
Publisher
TokyoPop
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After coming out as gay to his girlfriend, Uta is now single. A year and a half has passed since these new circumstances had him move in with Ryo, a straight man who is his junior at work. At first, they fought quite a bit; they also slept together. But these days, they're as tranquil as a middle-aged married couple. Only problem is...they haven't had sex or kissed in almost a year. With their lease renewal hanging over his head, Uta is wondering...
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Series
Heartstopper volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Nick and Charlie are in love. But what happens next?
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship soon follows, and that soon develops int something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high...
8) Boys weekend
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Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Newly-out trans artist's assistant Sammie is invited to an old friend's bachelor weekend in El Campo, a hedonistic wonderland of a city floating in the Atlantic Ocean's international waters -- think Las Vegas with even fewer rules. Though they have not identified as a man for over a year, Sammie's old friends haven't quite gotten the message -- as evidenced by their former best friend Adam asking them to be his "best man." Arriving at the swanky...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
10) Chopper
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Real-life convict and bestselling author of "How To Shoot Friends and Influence People," Mark "Chopper" Read dreams of making a name for himself as a legendary crime figure in this frightening, savagely funny true story. The son of a devoutly religious mother and a one-time soldier with a fondness for sleeping alongside a loaded gun, Chopper starts as a wisecracking criminal failure, inside a maximum-security prison, but he manages to twist his life...
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Series
Saint Young Men volume 10
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In today's world, there is an enticing lure that even heavenly figures cannot resist...the path of the YouTuber! An incident happens that threatens to break the spirit of Gabriel, the guardian angel of passing on information! Meanwhile, Jesus receives a sudden work request from the Heavens. While he struggles with the unfamiliar realities of remote work, Buddha cracks wise!"--Back cover.
14) Wolves of winter
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Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down...
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Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the oppotunity to grow old. But when...
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Waiting...: Dean and Monty are two longtime friends who work as waiters as Shenanigan's, a "fun" chain restaurant. Both have been working at the restaurant for about four years and it has only recently occurred to Dean that he has nothing to show for his life but a community college diploma and his name tag from work. He has developed a sudden urgency to make something of himself. Monty, on the other hand, is more interested in making time with the...
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