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1) The coaster
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Bob Patterson considers himself an Everyman albeit an Everyman with a rich, beautiful wife, two good kids, and a mail-it-in job that ignores his law degree. Despite his good fortune, Bob is idling through life, bored at work and at home. In short, he is the proverbial Coaster.
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Soldier Red Meyers looked forward to returning to Hideaway, Missouri, and his sweetheart, Bertie Moennig. But his dreams were shattered when he was gravely wounded during the last stages of World War II. Bertie was a beautiful woman, inside and out, and she deserved a whole man. For Bertie's sake, Red was determined to stay away. But a tragedy on the home front brings the couple face-to face for the first time in years, and now a dangerous mystery...
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"On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy."--P. [4] of cover.
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[2024]
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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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