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Everyman's library volume 148
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This is the story of a common field laborer, Michael Henshard, who becomes a leader in a small market town and then through his own failure sinks back miserably to his humble beginnings.
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Orlando’s older brother, Oliver, treats him badly and refuses him his small inheritance from their father’s estate. Meanwhile, Duke Frederick has forced his older brother into exile in the Forest of Arden. Orlando and Rosalind fall in love. Banished by her uncle, Rosalind assumes a male identity and leaves with Celia and their fool, Touchstone. Orlando flees Oliver’s murderous plots. In the Forest of Arden, Rosalind, in her male disguise, forms...
3) Hanging up
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three sisters struggle to deal with each other and their aging father.
4) Pure colour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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In the first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira?s chest like a portal?to what, she doesn?t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimention that true loss opens up.
Publisher
Distributed in the US and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
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3 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sweet Molly Gibson was living life pleasantly when her widowed father decides that, for the good of his daughter, he must remarry. In comes Claire and Molly's life is turned upside down by the usually well meaning but off-the-mark Claire, who insists on things being done the proper way. Added to the stew is Claire's beautiful, educated daughter Cynthia, and the Hamleys, a well-to-do family headed by a squire who is not happy about the romantic interests...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After a talented teen discovers the father she's never met is a famous rock star, she becomes part of his life and sets out to fulfill her two dreams: to become a singing star and reunite her parents.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Stephen Aston is getting married again. The only problem is, he's still married to his first wife, even thoughshe is in a care facility for dementia. But he'll take care of that easily, by divorcing her--even if his adult daughters protest. Tully and Rachel Aston look upon Heather as nothing but an interloper. Heather is the same age as Rachel and even younger than Tully. Clearly she's a golddigger and after their father's money. Heather has secrets...
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
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1928, Paris: A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who is really is. As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to keep. But...
Series
Criterion collection volume 354
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A schizophrenic man attempts to track down his young daughter after he is released from an institution.
11) Owl moon
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On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
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Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. The...
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Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...
14) Sankofa: a novel
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"When Anna, wondering who she really is, discovers that the African father she never knew is still alive, she embarks on a journey to a small nation in West Africa where she searches for her family's hidden roots"--
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After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas...
Publisher
Monterey Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the death of her mother, Alyssa moves to the Bahamas with her father, where she learns she can talk to the dolphins. When her father's research facility is in danger of closing, it is up to Alyssa and her gift to save it.
17) River of stars
Author
Series
Under heaven volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
639 pages : map ; 24 cm
18) I love my Papi!
Author
Series
Dora the explorer (Ready-to-read) volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Dora and her Papi play baseball, go to the beach, read books, and do lots of other fun things together.
Author
Series
Familiar novels volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
839 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes a new book as dazzling as it is riveting . . . A page-turner from start to finish, ranging from Southeast Asia to Mexico to Venice, Italy, and Venice, California, with characters as diverse as a therapist-in-training whose daughters prove far more complex than her patients, an ambitious East-L.A. gang member hired for violence, two scientists on the run in Marfa, Texas,...
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Ramona Quimby volume 4
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
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