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1) Penrod
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Penrod tells of a boy growing up in Indianapolis at the turn of the twentieth century. His friends and his dog accompany him on his many jaunts, from the stage as the Child Sir Lancelot, to the playground, to school. They make names for themselves as bad boys who always have the most fun.
3) Gentle Julia
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Florence, only 13, knows that of her Aunt Julia's many suitors, the best is the ungainly Noble Dill. Although he is an outcast, the innocent Florence sees that he is the only one without unfortunate oddities. This book is a laugh, as the young protagonist causes all sorts of trouble for Aunt Julia.
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Penrod Schofield ia an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the Midwestern United States. Penrod and his friends decide to start their own detective agency with hilarious results! A children’s book involving a boy detective who “solves” various mysteries and more than often gets himself into trouble as a result.
5) Seventeen
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Bantam classic volume JC 129
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"In the summer after his seventeenth birthday, William Baxter finds himself coming-of-age in his family's small vacation home." *** "'Seventeen' is the hilarious story of William Sylvanus Baxter, just seventeen, who is in love with Miss Pratt, a summer visitor in the neighborhood. The adolescent antics of a small-town Lothario are beguiling and utterly harmless, and the completely normal but demoniacal actions of Jane, William's pesky sister, are...
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Dolphin book volume C486
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Author Jean Shepherd reunites with his Indiana hometown. "Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the world's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a unversal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American...
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940L
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Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome, introducing the science fiction writer Kilgore Trout to the world and Vonnegut to the collegiate audience which would soon make him a cult writer. Trout, modeled according to Vonnegut on the science...
10) Boo who
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Boo novels volume 2
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English
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It appears that everyone in Skary, Indiana, is having an identity crisis of epic proportions--including the town itself.
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Montgomery "Monty" Brewster counts his blessings when he inherits a million dollars from his late, rich grandfather. However, when his equally-wealthy uncle also dies, Brewster immediately inherits another seven million dollars. But there's a catch: Brewster will only receive his uncle's money if he spends all of his grandfather's money within one year.
13) A witch in time
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Maggie is at the hospital visiting her sister who has just given birth to twins when she overhears a conversation that might be about a murder that might happen. Now she just has to figure out if her guesses are correct and how to stop the killing, that is, if the killers haven't already carried out their plan.
14) Home for a spell
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Maggie O'Neill's dream of a new place to live turns into a nightmare: the apartment manager is found dead before she can even sign the lease. And Maggie finds herself not only searching for a new home--but for a frightfully clever killer.
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"Bestselling author Philip Gulley offers humorous, small-town storytelling as he follows the foibles and follies of Pastor Sam Gardner. Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (with the exception of a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. But before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources put the quietus on the plan. A colony of endangered Indiana bats have...
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Morovenia is a state in which both the mosque and the motor-car now occur in the same landscape. It started out to be Turkish and later decided to be European. The Mohammedan sanctuaries with their hideous stencil decorations and bulbous domes are jostled by many new shops with blinking fronts and German merchandise. The orthodox turn their faces toward Mecca while the enlightened dream of a journey to Paris. Men of title lately...
Morovenia is a state in which both the mosque and the motor-car now occur in the same landscape. It started out to be Turkish and later decided to be European. The Mohammedan sanctuaries with their hideous stencil decorations and bulbous domes are jostled by many new shops with blinking fronts and German merchandise. The orthodox turn their faces toward Mecca while the enlightened dream of a journey to Paris. Men of title lately...
17) Boo
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Wolfe Boone, a horror novelist who put his town of Skary, Indiana on the map with his books, decides to stop writing and pursue love with the girl next door, a decision which prompts the inhabitants of Skary to take drastic measures.
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Nacho mama's patio cafe volume 02
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Some Elections are hard … This one is Murder! Get ready for Excitement, Laughs, Thrills and Fun! In 10 days she'll be the 1st in your face lesbian judge elected in homo-hating Indiana. But someone wants to kill her and her little dog too. The friends from Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe must put on their big boy panties, get out of Hoosier Daddy, the only gay bar in town, onto the streets and go hunting for the culprit. Thrills, drag shows, danger, and...
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"Flying to a favorite uncle's funeral in Indianapolis, middle-aged Kurt Vonnegut daydreams of one-hundred-year-old Wilbur Oriole-11 Swain, pediatrician and past United States President, who wrote history's most popular child-rearing manual and sold the original Louisiana Purchase."--NoveList viewed in Sept. 2007.
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Aging science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
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