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A Long Way from Chicago
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Joey and his sister, Mary Alice, travel from their home in Chicago to their grandmother’s small town. They certainly don’t expect the crazy adventures they encounter in Chicago. Each summer trip to grandma's gets funnier and more surprising than the year before.
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Gone Fishing
Gone Fishing by Walter Mosley
In the beginning...there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander -- two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he can marry his EttaMae. But on their steamy bayou excursion, Mouse will choose murder as a way out, while Easy's past liaison with EttaMae floats precariously in his memory.
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One More Day
One More Day by Mitch Albom
Charley Benetto, an alcoholic considering suicide, is given the chance to spend one more day with his mother, who had died eight years earlier
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