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"Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Rhinehart and Hank Meyer are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...
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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of...
4) The Fort
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From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" — five friends who need to stick together after they set up a hideout in an abandoned bomb shelter and discover that the only way to be true friends is to reveal their secrets and help each other out.
The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction — power outages, downed
...5) Chances are
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2019.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
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2012
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In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying
8) The chosen
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A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this "profound and universal" (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today.
"Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops." —Chicago Tribune
It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven...
"Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops." —Chicago Tribune
It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven...
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Covenant Communications
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c2008
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After battling personal, professional, and financial setbacks, Jayson Wolfe has fame, fortune, and a great family at last. But when he reaches an irreversible crisis point in his life, God's arms reach out to protect Jayson from his own worst impulses and he learns that the road to healing can be arduous and elusive even with the love and support of his precious Elizabeth.
11) City slickers
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MGM Home Entertainment
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2008
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When a New York man realizes he is having a mid-life crisis, he and his friends decide to go on a cattle drive to find some adventure.
12) The cable guy
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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1996
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A cable installer, raised on television sitcoms, wants life to look like "My three sons." And when he meets a single-guy, he sees his chance for some serious male bonding.
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Vision Films
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[2016]
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After suffering the loss of his best friend Charlie on Christmas Eve, sixteen-year-old Bobby Whiteside ventures out onto the lake where they played countless games of winter hockey. Upon shoveling the ice surface, he makes a shocking discovery: a magical, perfectly groomed hockey rink that appears only at night and only in his presence.
14) Higher ground
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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2009.
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A former FBI agent, tired of living the big city life, joins his friend in Alaska to be a bush pilot. When his friend is murdered, he must use all his investigative skills to clear his name and protect the wife and son left behind.
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Bromance book club Book 1
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Jove
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2019.
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"Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He's recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it's the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he's let his pride and fear get the better of him ... Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret...
17) Old dogs
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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Dan and Charlie are two best friends who, together, have built a successful marketing empire, but have somehow managed to avoid ever really grown up. Their lives have been turned upside down when they are charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of a big business deal. The clueless bachelors stumble in their efforts, leading to one debacle after another, with a gorilla and some pecking penguins. Dan and Charlie learn as much...
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2016
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Prepare to enter phase nine of television's perpetual laughter experiment as the show successfully fuses the elements of science and sitcom. Our two genius roommates, Leonard and Sheldon, and their friends are back once again (smarter, but no wiser). Last season, Sheldon went soul-searching (on a train, of course) and was prepared to make some substantial revisions on his Relationship Agreement with Amy, when everything changed.
19) Tag
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
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[2018]
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A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country. --
20) Without a paddle
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Paramount DVD
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2005, c2004
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Three childhood friends set off into the wilderness in hopes of finding the lost treasure of infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
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