Central Skagit Library District

"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...

Monk has more trouble than ever after Dr. Kroger unexpectedly dies. He decides to buy a house. Unfortunately, some creepy people want to get their greedy hands on whatever is hidden in that house, even if they have to destroy the house to do it. He has to deal with a murdered homeless man; miraculous fountains; lottery murders; a stolen bike at a biotech lab; submarine 'suicides;' exploding grills; protecting a boxer; the impossible murder of Monk's...

Socially challenged they remain, but the scientific geniuses of show always deliver hilarious results. Leonard returns from his North Sea expedition to find that his relationship with Penny involves more beta-testing than he's ever done in a lab. Howard's attachment issues with women in his life in particular and Raj's social breakthrough with women in general provide more laughs. Bernadette and Amy stand staunchly by the men in their life, even when...

Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.

Todo en Santiago es viejo, a excepción de sus ojos invictos. El anciano pescador lleva ochenta y cuatro días sin conseguir presa. Pese a esto, un día decide salir solo al mar, donde un pez gigante muerde al fin el anzuelo. Una batalla decisiva se desata entre el viejo y el enorme animal. El viejo y el mar está considerado como una de las obras de ficción más destacadas del s. XX. Fue escrita en Cuba por el Nobel Ernest Hemingway y publicada...

A baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers.

"In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. Now, they were seeing protesters turn on the troops. One neighborhood patriot proposed an idea many might deem preposterous: One of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat,...

"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael...

He's ingenious, he's phobic, he's obsessive-compulsive. Monk's hilarious, offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty, but he's back as a police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases.

Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.