male friendship

Five British teenagers stage the prank to top all pranks by disappearing into a small, inescapable cellar underneath their school for three days-- but it seems the joke is on them when Martyn, the master schemer behind the ruse, does not show up to let them out.

Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.

A graphic novel adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel that depicts the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who attempts to help Jim, a runaway slave, find freedom in the North.

Lamin Michaels and his latest partner in crime, Zion, build one of New York's largest narcotics empires, until Lamin falls for a beautiful girl who makes him realize there is more to life than money.

Alex Gilbey, one of four students to discover the body of Rosie Duff, raped, stabbed, and left for dead in a cemetery, finds his life in danger twenty-five-years later when the case is reopened and two of the men who were with him that December night are mysteriously murdered.

Four young housemates from a historically black university attempt to save a community center in a low-income Washington D.C. neighborhood while they cope with intense personal struggles of faith, love, and family; and the effort is made even more difficult by a sophisticated local drug dealer who wants the center shut down.

Julia Bishop faces a wrenching dilemma when she finds herself in love with two men, best friends Ed Tully and Connor Ford, and the three of them are forced to live with the consequences when she chooses to marry Ed after he is injured trying to save her life.

No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota? billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope.

"After sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon, gifted ecology student Shion finds his life thrown into chaos as he begins to discover the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6, the computerized metropolis he calls home"--OCLC.