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Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything With her mother long dead gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, fifteen-year-old Lutie lives in the godforsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota, with her eleven-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the three-hundred-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows, and worrying about global warming. As if their life were not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in the local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or high-tailing it it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number, and no particular interest in the kids he left behind.
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Hit and Run,by Lawrence Block
House and Home,by Kathleen McCleary
Impress The World With Your Body in 7 Days,by Dr. David Madow
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Made In The U.S.A.,by Billie Letts
Murder At The Bad Girls Bar And Grill,by N.M. Kelby
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Summer On A Plate,by Anna Pump
Swan Peak,by James Lee Burke
Unthinkable,by Amanda Ripley
- Happy 298th Birthday To John Newbery!
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Baseball became a part of my life on a cool evening in the late summer of 1960 at Griffith Stadium in a game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. The Yankees won. And from that evening on, I was hooked on both baseball and...
- There's Still Time To Get Caught Reading
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- We Love To "get Caught Reading"
Popsicles, the pool, a dark movie theater and central a/c all have their strong points?but we in Arlington know there?s really nothing cooler than the Library?s Get Caught Reading summer celebration. Now as much a tradition as July Fourth fireworks,...
- Debut Authors & New Arrivals
Jonis Agee's The River Wife, set in 19th-century Missouri is a multigenerational, epic novel covering the lives of five women related either by marriage, partnership, or birth to French fur-trapper and river pirate, Jacques Ducharme. The novel mixes...
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Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything With her mother long dead gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, fifteen-year-old Lutie lives in the godforsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota, with her eleven-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the three-hundred-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows, and worrying about global warming. As if their life were not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in the local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or high-tailing it it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number, and no particular interest in the kids he left behind.More New Books:
America America,by Ethan Canin
Barefoot,by Elin Hilderbrand
Books,by Larry McMurtry
Chasing Darkness,by Robert Crais
Death Angel,by Linda Howard
Drifters Wheel,by Phillip DePoy
Hit and Run,by Lawrence Block
House and Home,by Kathleen McCleary
Impress The World With Your Body in 7 Days,by Dr. David Madow
Is Your Frog Boiling,by Dr. David Madow
Killer View, by Ridley Pearson
Last Kiss,by Luanne Rice
Made In The U.S.A.,by Billie Letts
Murder At The Bad Girls Bar And Grill,by N.M. Kelby
Sugar Queen,by Sarah Addison Allen
Summer Affair,by Elin Hilderbrand
Summer On A Plate,by Anna Pump
Swan Peak,by James Lee Burke
Unthinkable,by Amanda Ripley
- Happy 298th Birthday To John Newbery!
John Newbery, an 18th-century bookseller born July 19, 1713, is commonly believed to be the originator of books for children - the first books designed to give real pleasure as well as instruction. The Newbery Medal, which bears his name, is awarded...
- Take Me Out--summer Dreams Of Fields
Baseball became a part of my life on a cool evening in the late summer of 1960 at Griffith Stadium in a game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. The Yankees won. And from that evening on, I was hooked on both baseball and...
- There's Still Time To Get Caught Reading
Is back-to-school time looming faster than you're ready for? Have you been out of town, or so busy juggling your summer schedules that you haven't been to the Library in months? Or are you a recent arrival to Arlington? Don't worry, you haven't...
- We Love To "get Caught Reading"
Popsicles, the pool, a dark movie theater and central a/c all have their strong points?but we in Arlington know there?s really nothing cooler than the Library?s Get Caught Reading summer celebration. Now as much a tradition as July Fourth fireworks,...
- Debut Authors & New Arrivals
Jonis Agee's The River Wife, set in 19th-century Missouri is a multigenerational, epic novel covering the lives of five women related either by marriage, partnership, or birth to French fur-trapper and river pirate, Jacques Ducharme. The novel mixes...