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Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother, and former heir to the throne, has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy, and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what...
2) Calico Joe
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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28 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Hoping to cheer up his dad after a disappointing soccer game, Splat enters a Cat School Picnic father-son six-legged race that does not turn out quite as expected.
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Universal
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A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
"...we now have something that genuinely casts a spell on viewers."--Rolling Stone
"The overall stunning nature of the work cannot be ignored."--Globe and Mail
"...It's a movie the whole family can rock out to."--New York Post
7) East of Eden
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
8) The judge
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Warner
Pub. Date
©2015
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1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
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David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love–until one fateful night when David woke suddenly to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall. Half a decade later, David’s been wrongly accused and convicted of the murder, left to serve out his time in a maximum-security...
11) Midnight special
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2016
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1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A father and son go on the run, pursued by government agents and a cult drawn to the boy's special powers.
12) Boy & the world
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Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2016
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1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A boy sets out on an adventure to find his father.
13) Nebraska
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.
15) Joe Bell
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Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
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Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After he is cut from a renowned soccer club by his father, who is the coach, a soccer player finds inspiration from his ex-girlfriend as she pursues her musical goals, and he decides to try out for a rival club.
18) Worth
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After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
19) East of Eden
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1954
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2 DVDs (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.
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"Andrew Larsen evokes the eternal hope and joy of all true baseball fans --- along with their love of facts --- in this heartwarming story about a baseball-loving boy who doesn't give up.Lenny can't get enough of baseball. He loves to play. And he loves to pore over his Big Book of Baseball Facts. He wants to be in the big leagues someday, and, he figures, the more he knows, the better his chances. The only thing is, though he tries to keep his eye...
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