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"Nothing seems to change in Eden Hill, Kentucky, and that's fine with Virgil T. Osgood. He's content to raise his family and run the only service station in town. Then a new station pops up right across the road, and Virgil suddenly faces crises in his career, his marriage, and his self-worth. Cornelius Alexander wants his Zipco station to succeed and help establish a strong foundation for his growing family. Virgil and Cornelius must learn to get...
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Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this book is about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother, the formidable and imposing...
3) Full service
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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730L
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English
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In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
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The Last Ghost Dancer is more than a coming-of-age fable, more than the wry memoirs of a spiritual search. It is the story of a remarkable summer in a remarkable west river town. It is a commentary on the depth and breadth of friendships forged, of lovers lost, and the realization that it is the journey that is of importance, and not so much the destination.
Looking back, as old men do, it's hard to imagine it really happened. But it did. One wise...
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Suburban dicks volume 01
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English
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The cocreator of Deadpool presents this highly entertaining debut novel that follows a very pregnant former FBI profiler as she, with her five kids in tow, tries to solve the murder of a gas attendant with the help of a disgraced local journalist.
6) Garage song
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[1991]
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English
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A boy spends a day watching the men work at a busy service station.
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