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4) Crossers
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Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Philip Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance. When Gil Castle loses his wife...
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2013.
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English
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One of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large. Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take...
10) Acts of faith
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A disparate group of men and women confronts their own indivudual moral crises, fears, and physical dangers as they work to alleviate the hardships and suffering caused by civil war and famine in contemporary Sudan.
12) Some rise by sin
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Henry Holt and Company
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2017.
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English
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"The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other's lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they're...
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Arcade Publishing
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[2023]
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English
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When he discovers stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragedy, newsman Luke Blackburn becomes the center of a media firestorm that threatens to blow up his marriage while his star investigative reporter slowly pieces together a story of corruption and cartel money in his refuge, Key West.
The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in Key West, discover stranded Cuban refugees...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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A trio of novellas. In Standing In, an elderly couple adopt a young man who resembles their dead son, but the adoption does not work out, Paradise traces the impact of a shipwrecked stranger on a remote island, and In the Forest of the Laughing Elephant soldiers mount an operation during the Vietnam War to rescue a soldier who has been carried off by a tiger. By the author of A Rumor of War.
