friendship fiction

Eric, a lonely nineteen-year-old grappling with the loss of his best friend, retreats into his imagination and finds solace in a memory of a day spent with a boy named Haru, but Eric's imagination and reality blur together when he walks into a coffee shop and sees Haru.

Fresh off his new job as sheriff of Santa Fe, Dead-Eye Dan Crowley finds his vacation to New Orleans interrupted when he witnesses a brazen kidnapping. As Dead-Eye Dan follows the clues, he finds himself drawn deeper into the shadowy underworld of the Big Easy, and into the path of one of his oldest adversaries, Blackjack Billy Perkins, who claims to have gone straight from his life of crime, but seems to know more than he is letting on about the kidnapping. Is Blackjack Billy really as reformed as he seems to be? What is his connection to the powerful sugar baron Maximilian Beauchamp? And what other secrets lie deep in the Louisiana swamp? This pulse-pounding follow-up to Dead-Eye Dan and the Cimarron Kid plunges the fearless frontier lawman into unfamiliar surroundings with new challenges to his courage and values in a can?t-miss adventure.

In the nine months since Tumbleweed Thompson left the town of Rattlesnake Junction, Colorado, for life on the road with the Coyote Pete Frontier Show, Eugene Appleton has found himself yearning for a taste of the adventures he imagines his new friend having on the American frontier. Life at home changes in an instant when Tumbleweed once again finds a way to interrupt Eugene?s life to ask for his help in solving the sudden disappearance of his father. And so, the two set off on a life-changing quest in search of the fabled treasure of the Sangre de Cristo mountains.

The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara-a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.