Added by: badaboom | Karma: 5364.29 | Fiction literature | 30 November 2011
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A Dog Named Christmas
In this heartwarming novel, the author tells the tender story of how one very special dog changed the lives of his adoptive family - and an entire town - forever. "Todd, they always want you to adopt a dog. That’s what they do. Besides, we don’t need another animal around here, and most definitely not a dog."
Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known as "the Captain" brings him from his boarding school to London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him "Jim" and depends on him for any news of the world outside their door.
Unable to make friends with her hostile bunkmates, Sarah decides to stage an accident to make everyone feel sorry for her, but the plan goes awry when a dangerous ghost named Della decides to keep Sarah for an eternal friend.
When Dewey and Bundy see the sign about the new summer soccer league, they're psyched. Then they read the fine print and learn about the contest: Whoever draws the best team logo will be named captain of his or her team and see the logo reproduced on team t-shirts.
In the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club, J.R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar is a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar. A national bestseller that was named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005 by the New York Times, The Tender Bar will reach an even larger audience in paperback.
