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      By Le Carré, John, 1931-  Time Warner, Inc
       2004., Holder Headline Audiobooks Call No: CD Fic Lec   Edition: Abridged.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Le Carre's latest masterpiece spans three historical periods. The hero, Ted Mundy was born in Pakistan when the British Empire was crumbling, got a public school education in a changing England, went to Oxford and then on to Berlin where he met his fellow radical Shasha, forming an "absolute friendship". He and Shasha eventually formed a highly successfull spy pair during the Cold War, a period of ideological clarity as to what was right or wrong. After the fall of the Berlin war Ted finds himself a partner in a language school and, after this fails miserably, he works as a tour guide in one of Mad Ludwig's castles in Bavaria. Shasha reappears and they find themselves involved again, this time in a war-in-Iraq related operation. Only now things are not clear as to what is right or wrong. To quote Shasha "..the coalition has broken half the rules in the international law books, and intends by its continued occupation of Iraq to break the other half". Le Carre is [rightly so] highly critical of what the coalition is doing in Iraq, his thoughts full of the wisdom of a man whose life spans the same periods with the book's hero. This is not only a superb story of friendship, a historical novel, a well written spy thriller but also a cry of anguish of an educated citizen of the world caused by the post 9/11 state of world affairs.
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      By Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
       2014., Large Print Treasury Call No: LP Fic Twa   Edition: Large print edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
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      By Allam, Roger  Brannigan, Paul  Henshaw, John, 1951-  Maitland, Gary
       2012., eOne Films Call No: SC DVD Fic Angels' Share    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: From award-winning director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty comes a bitter sweet comedy caper which proves that sometimes all you need in life is a little spirit. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned Robbie is given one last chance to turn his life around. Together the four friends he embarks on an adventure and discovers that turning to drink might just change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world.
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      By Davidson, Craig, 1976-
       c2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Dav    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Owen Struckey and Duncan Diggs are born and bred in Cataract City. They grow into men who dream of escape, a longing made more urgent by a traumatic childhood incident that has cemented their friendship. But in adulthood, their paths diverge: Owen manages to stay above the law, becoming a police officer, while Duncan sinks deep into the town's underworld. Inevitably, the two find themselves pitched against each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
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      By Russo, Richard, 1949-
       2019., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Rus   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping 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 mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, forty-four years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives and that of a significant other are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are. also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship's bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family or any other community. For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are. is a stunning demonstration of a highly acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable achievement"--
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      By Oe, Kenzaburo, 1935-
       c2010., Adult, Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West Call No: Fic Oe   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Late in his life, writer Kogito Choko reconnects with his estranged friend, the filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro's subsequent suicide causes Kogito to examine and reexamine Goro's life for clues that will lead him to understand his friend's path.
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      By Richards, David Adams
       c2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Ric    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Howard, Evan and Ian are inseparable as boys--so much so that one night, abandoned in the forest by the careless adults around them, and raging against society and the uncaring gods others worship, they seal their undying brotherhood with a blood bond. But soon after, a horrific accident scars each of them in a different way, testing their bonds and leaving each with a debt to be paid. As adults, seeking to rise above this debt and advance in life, each man decides upon a very different path--but over time, all three discover they are tied to each other in intricately tangled, sometimes violent, and surprising ways that none of them has been wise enough to foresee...
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      By Smith, Dennison
       2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Smi   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When a brutal explosion in a summer-cottage town in Vermont brings together Amos, a disfigured handyman, and Aubrey, the cosseted son of a wealthy New England family, neither has any idea that this one event will shape them forever. As their lives touch again and again over the years, these two unlikely friends forge a bond that survives war and peace, love and loss. Peopled with a cast of larger-than-life, unforgettable characters and written with beautiful precision, this is a masterly evocation of friendship and a profound meditation on the compromises exacted by life.
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      By Jacobson, Howard
       2010., Bloomsbury Call No: Fic Jac    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than exam results. Now, both Libor and Sam are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment." -- From the publisher.