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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Little rig, little rig, let me come in!" "Not by the chrome on my chinny chin chin." "Then I'll crash and I'll bash and I'll smash your house in." When the three little rigs set out to build their own garages, each one thinks that his is going to be the strongest. But then the big bad wrecking ball comes to call and threatens to smash their new homes to smithereens. The brothers learn that it's only by bravery and teamwork that they can win the day....
3) Fix it, Sam
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sam is good at fixing things, but his little brother Petey is the one who keeps their tent from falling.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Patrick Norris has seen the worst that Afghanistan has to offer-excruciating heat, bitter cold, and death waiting behind every rock as comrades are blown to pieces by bombs and snipers. He returns home exhilarated by his new freedom and eager to realize his dream of a sport fishing business. But he is shocked to learn that the avocado ranch his family has owned for generations in the foothills of San Diego has been destroyed by a massive wildfire...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
The Return of Rafe MacKade -- Ten years after disappearing from Antietam, Maryland, the bad boy has returned. Cleaned up and successful now, and still dangerously good-looking, Rafe MacKade sets the town on fire, and tongues wagging. Lovely newcomer Regan Jones is intriguedwhat kind of man could cause this sort of talk? She's just about to find out. The Pride of Jared MacKade -- He was a man who stood for something, and never turned his back on a...
8) The prophet
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, estranged since their sister's abduction and murder when they were teens, are forced into a reunion through a new killing in their small Midwestern town.
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Language
English
Description
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown...
10) The lost man
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet...
11) In too deep
Author
Series
Kincaid brides volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Ethan Kincaid and Audra Gilliland, a young mother of two, agree to a marriage of convenience, their reluctant hearts must find the courage to risk falling truly, deeply in love.
12) Burden of proof
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A few months before his twenty-first birthday, Ethan missed the chance to save his brother's life. Adrian was murdered on the steps of the courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida. Ever since that fateful day, Ethan has sensed a deep disconnect between the man he should have been and the one he has become. His days play out a beat too slow, his mind rehashing the scene of his failure again and again.
13) Slappy New Year!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ray Gordon loves to scare his younger brother, Brandon. It's not hard considering Brandon is terrified of everything--loud noises, roller coasters, and especially the wooden dummy, Slappy, that Ray got from Jonathan Chiller's HorrorLand gift shop. In order to throw his big New Year's Eve party, Ray's parents make him promise to leave Brandon alone. But strange, mean-spirited things keep happening to his little brother, and Slappy always seems to...
14) The committed
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...
15) 7 x 9 = trouble!
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Wilson struggles with his times-tables in order to beat the class deadline.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts...
17) Little cruelties
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An uneasy but powerful read from bestselling author Liz Nugent that delves into the darkness visited upon a family of three working-class Irish brothers, exploring the ways in which families can wreak emotional damage across generations and doom men to give in to their own worst impulses in service to a culture that has abandoned them"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown-including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mitchum is back. His brother's been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum will break every rule to expose the truth--even if it destroys the people he loves.
20) The mummy's gold
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Jake thinks that the mummy he meets at a movie theater is part of one of his brother's tricks, but he is wrong.
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