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c2001., Little, Brown Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. He's a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice and as his name makes clear, he's afraid of nothing. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that's the key to a fortune. For the black characters it's a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. One sly reference tells the reader we're still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally "bad." But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one.
![Fearless Jones [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT74010.JPG "Fearless Jones [eBook] : a novel")
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2009, c2008., Adult, McArthur & Co. Call No: Fic Cou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Fishing for Stars is a story of ambition, destruction, love, tears, laughter and hope. At its heart are two passionate, unforgettable and very different women. One is exotic, damaged, and shrewd; the other beautiful, determined and zealous. Both are bitter rivals for the love of the same man. Nick Duncan is an ingenuous male with a great deal more female on his hands than he can possibly hope to understand. The contest he is called upon to referee is the clash between the two great loves of his life: the seductive Anna Til, and the older, equally fascinating Marg Hamilton. Nick struggles between their worlds: one exploiting the world's riches for profit, the other fighting to save the environment and its creatures, large and small. Set in Australia, the Pacific islands, Japan and Indonesia during the latter half of the twentieth century."--Author's website.
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2010., Corvus Call No: SC MYS Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over, but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Hugh was dead, shot down in the war. Perhaps it would have been kinder if he had been killed. The man who returns from the war is unrecognizable: mutilated, horribly burned. Hugh keeps his own company, only venturing out for heroin to deaden the pain of his wounds. When a local boy is found raped and murdered, there is only one suspect. Hugh claims he's innocent but a mountain of evidence says otherwise. Despite the hideousness of the crime, ex-policeman Brodie feels compelled to try and help his one-time friend. Working with advocate Samantha Campbell, Brodie trawls the mean streets of the Gorbals and the green hills of western Scotland in their search for the truth. What they find is an unholy alliance of troublesome priests, corrupt cops, and Glasgow's deadliest razor gang, happy to slaughter to protect their dark and dirty secrets. As time runs out for the condemned man, the murder tally of innocents starts to climb. When Sam Campbell disappears, it's the last straw for Brodie, and he reverts to his wartime role as a trained killer. It's them or him.
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c2012., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Hel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Returning home after serving in World War II to run his family business in New York, paratrooper Harry Copeland falls in love with young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, who risks everything to break off her engagement to another man.
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By Turow, Scott2005., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Tur Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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c2013., Adult, Corvus Call No: SC MYS Fic Fer Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Douglas Brodie series Volume: 3Summary Note: It's 1947 and the worst winter in memory: Glasgow is buried in snow, killers stalk the streets - and Douglas Brodie's past is engulfing him. It starts small. The Jewish community in Glasgow asks Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman turned journalist, to solve a series of burglaries. The police don't care and Brodie needs the cash. Brodie solves the crime but the thief is found dead, butchered by the owner of the house he was robbing. When the householder in turn is murdered, the whole community is in uproar - and Brodie's simple case of theft disintegrates into chaos. Into the mayhem strides Danny McRae - Brodie's old sparring partner from when they policed Glasgow's mean streets. Does Danny bring with him the seeds of redemption or retribution? As the murder tally mounts, Brodie discovers tainted gold and a blood-stained trail back to the concentration camps. Back to the horrors that haunt his dreams. Glasgow is overflowing with Jewish refugees. But have their persecutors pursued them? And who will be next to die?.
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2014., General, McClelland & Stewart Call No: SC Fic MacL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the internationally celebrated author of 'No Great Mischief' comes a moving short story of three generations of men from a single family whose lives are forever altered by the long shadow of war. In the early morning hours of November 11, David MacDonald, a veteran of the Second World War, stands outside his Cape Breton home, preparing to attend what will likely be his last Remembrance Day parade. As he waits for the arrival of his son and grandson, he remembers his decision to go to war in desperation to support his young family. He remembers the horrors of life at the frontlines in Ortona, Italy, and then what happened in Holland when the Canadians arrived as liberators. He remembers how the war devastated his own family, but gave him other reasons to live. As the story unfolds, other generations enter the scene. What emerges is an elegant, life-affirming meditation on the bond between fathers and sons, "how the present always comes out of the past," and how even in the midst of tragedy and misfortune there exists the possibility for salvation. His first new short story in over a decade, Remembrance is a powerful reminder of why Alistair MacLeod is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time."--Publisher.
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2010, c2009., Adult, McArthur & Company Call No: Fic Cou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Luck changes for Danny when he signs up to go to war. He returns home a physically broken man. With Helen, his wife, a woman of strength, character and intelligence, he sets about rebuilding his life. It is a life tormented by personal demons, shaped by compassion, corruption, love and power - and the gift of twin daughters, Sam and Gabby.
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2002., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Walk C Edition: Widescreen or standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young man returns from World War II and helps an unwed, pregnant woman face her domineering father. During the time they spend at the grape harvest they discover a deep and passionate love.
![A walk in the clouds [DVD] (1995). Directed by Alfonso Arau.](/Library/images/~imageCT84322.JPG "A walk in the clouds [DVD] (1995). Directed by Alfonso Arau.")