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The road from Raqqa : a story of brotherhood, borders, and belonging / by Conn, Jordan Ritter,author.;: Includes bibliographical references."The Alkasem brothers, Riyad and Bashar, spend their childhood in Raqqa, the Syrian city that would later become the capital of ISIS. As a teenager in the 1980s, Riyad witnesses the devastating aftermath of the Hama massacre--an atrocity that the Hafez al-Assad regime commits upon its people. Wanting to expand his notion of government and justice, Riyad moves to the United States to study law, but his plans are derailed and he eventually falls in love with a Southern belle. They move to a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, where they raise two sons and where Riyad opens a restaurant--Café Rakka--cooking the food his grandmother used to make. But he finds himself confronted with the darker side of American freedoms: the hardscrabble life of a newly arrived immigrant, enduring bigotry, poverty, and loneliness. Years pass, and at the height of Syria's civil war, fearing for his family's safety halfway across the world, he risks his own life by making a dangerous trip back to Raqqa. After his older brother moves to America, Bashar embarks on a brilliant legal career under the same corrupt Assad government that Riyad despises. Reluctant to abandon his comfortable (albeit conflicted) life, he fails to perceive the threat of ISIS until it's nearly too late."-- Publisher marketing.; Subjects: Biographies.; Alkasem, Bashar.; Alkasem, Riyad.; Refugees; Brothers; Refugees;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Road out of winter / by Stine, Alison,1978-author.;: "Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty; her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous. After a harrowing encounter with a violent cult, Wil and her small group of exiles become a target for the cult's volatile leader. Because she has the most valuable skill in the climate chaos: she can make things grow."--Back cover.; Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Apocalyptic fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Gardeners; Marijuana; Climatic changes;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Two for the road / by Guertin, Chantel,1976-author.;: Beyond the walls of her romance bookstore, Gigi Rutherford is out of stock when it comes to her own love interests. And instead of enduring one bad date after another, these days she'd rather curl up at home with her favorite audiobook and the only man who makes her heart skip a beat: Zane Wilkenson, the smooth-voiced narrator Gigi is convinced is her soulmate. Then, she's presented with the chance of a lifetime: a ten-day bus tour through the hilly English countryside, taking in the sights and sounds of a world an ocean away from her bookstore--all in the presence of the man of her dreams, Zane, as he leads the tour ... in person. But things don't go as planned. When Gigi arrives at the bus terminal in London, Zane is nowhere to be found. Until he shows up, she's stuck with an eclectic group of fellow travelers she'd rather not be with on a long road trip, including the brooding bus driver, Taj, who Gigi finds infuriating but also incredibly alluring. Will Gigi find a happy ending with Zane? Or will each stop on the tour bring her closer to a completely different destination?; Subjects: Romance fiction.; Road fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Tour buses; Vacations; Women booksellers;; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The road to heaven / by Stefanovich-Thomson, Alexis,author.;: "A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto's Parkdale during the tumultuous '60s. "I didn't kill her. I had the thought, the idea. What's the saying? The road to heaven is paved with bad intentions?" Patrick Bird is a police academy cadet burnout turned PI who works divorce cases and catches people with his camera doing dirty deeds in dark rooms. But his easy routine is shattered when he starts the Linklater case. Sixteen-year-old Abbie Linklater has been missing from home for two days. Her stepmother believes Abbie's getting an abortion. Her twin brother thinks she's studying at the library. Her best friend could care less. Her father has no idea, but has an aversion to involving the police. Before the sun sets on the first day of his investigation, Bird has roamed the streets of Toronto looking for a runaway, caught a drifter prowling in the Linklater's backyard, been led to a creepy church with a cult-like following, sparred with the client, been hit by a car, and discovered some loose ends in a bank robbery gone wrong from a decade earlier."--; Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Missing persons; Murder; Nineteen sixties; Private investigators; Secrecy;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The road from Belhaven / by Livesey, Margot,author.;: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland. Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on her beloved farm. But she does see "pictures" that foretell various incidents and accidents and begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her. Why have the adults around her not revealed that the touch of a hand can change everything? After following Louis to Glasgow, though, she learns the limits of his devotion, and when faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes what turns out to be a terrible mistake. But while Lizzie can't change the past, her second sight may allow her a second chance. Luminous and transporting, The Road from Belhaven once again displays "the marvelous control of a writer who conjures equally well the tangible, sensory world ... and the mysteries, stranger and wilder, that flicker at the border of that world." (The Boston Globe)"--; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Clairvoyants; Man-woman relationships; Young women;; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The Silk Roads : a new history of the world / by Frankopan, Peter.;: Includes bibliographical references and index."Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game and the fall of Communism, the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. The Silk Roads vividly captures the importance of the networks that crisscrossed the spine of Asia and linked the Atlantic with the Pacific, the Mediterranean with India, America with the Persian Gulf. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the horrific world wars of the twentieth century, Peter Frankopan realigns the world, orientating us eastwards, and illuminating how even the rise of the West 500 years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control these Eurasian trading networks. In an increasingly globalized planet, where current events in Asia and the Middle East dominate the world's attention, this magnificent work of history is very much a work of our times"--Provided by publisher.LSC; Subjects: World history.; Trade routes; East and West; Imperialism; Culture conflict; Acculturation;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
A road for Canada : the illustrated story of the Trans-Canada Highway / by Francis, Daniel,1947-;: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Subjects: Roads; Roads;; © c2006, 2010., Stanton Atkins,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The ultimate road trip : all 89 games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the ultimate Leafs fan / by Wilson, Mike(Mike Ernest),1954-author.; Shanahan, Brendan,1969-writer of foreword.; Hornby, Lance,author.;: Subjects: Wilson, Mike (Mike Ernest), 1954-; Toronto Maple Leafs (Hockey team); Hockey fans;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Van Horne's road : an illustrated account of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway / by Lavallee, Omer1925-;: Bibliography: p. 298.; Subjects: C P Rail;; © c1974., Railfare Enterprises,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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