male friendship

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.

Henry Wiggens, his best friend Bruce Pearson, and other members of the New York Mammoths, bonding over the course of a season that sees the team making a run at the World Series, become even closer as they rally around a teammate who is dying of cancer.

Presents the continuing autobiography of James Frey in which he tells about his friendship with Leonard, a man he met while in rehabilitation for alcohol and drug abuse, and discusses how Leonard, a genial mobster, took on the role of father, comforting him after the suicide of his girlfriend, and providing him with jobs, encouragement, money, and advice on how to live boldly.

Twelve-year-old Travis and his best friend Freddy head for Las Vegas in order to win enough at blackjack to buy back the house Travis's dad gambled away, but run into more trouble than they can handle when they try to scam a mobster named Johnny Large.

Amir and Hassan are good friends growing up together in Afghanistan but when the Soviets invade the country, Amir and his family use their wealth and influence to flee to California, but Hassan and his impoverished family, who are also a shunned ethnic minority, stay and suffer.

Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.

Aging professional hockey player Jean Pierre Savard, still coping with the death of his wife, and his friend and teammate Cam Carter, decide they are going to win the Stanley Cup and will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.