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Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your eighteen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody,...
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Timmy Failure volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
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274 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure s academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's...
5) Room
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Lionsgate
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After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
"See it you must for the Oscar-caliber Larson and young Tremblay, whose remarkable mother-and-child bond is nothing sort of astonishing to watch."--New York Post
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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Harvard graduate Sam and his fiance?e, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation...
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2017.
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"From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America's culture wars. Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the...
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Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
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1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 p.] ; 19 cm.)
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Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
10) Cyrus
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Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A quirky, hilarious story about love, family and cutting the cord. Not-so-recently divorced John thinks he's finally found the perfect woman when he meets the sweet and sexy Molly. There's just one problem, Molly's son Cyrus clings to his mom like lint on a T-shirt, and he's not about to let another man come between them. It's one hysterically awkward moment after another as John and Cyrus fight for the right to be Molly's #1 man.
11) My one and only
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Alliance Films
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ann Devereaux has just left her philandering husband Dan, a society bandleader, and taken to the road with her teenage sons, George and Robbie, in search of a suitable new mate. But it's 1953, years past Ann's courting days. Now it seems that the losers and playboys outnumber the eligible and willing bachelors.
12) The guilt trip
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2013
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
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Flamboyant
Pub. Date
2022
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, 31 cm
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Martín tiene una imaginación desbordante que a veces le juega malas pasadas. Se imagina que ocurrirán cosas catastróficas y, de lo mucho que se preocupa, tirita como un flan. ¿Y si explotan todos los globos en la fiesta? ¿Y si se pierde en la excursión con su clase? Pero entonces su madre decide darle la vuelta a sus miedos... ¿Y si lo mejor está por llegar?
Martín has an overflowing imagination that sometimes plays tricks on him. He imagines...
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Ediciones Ekaré
Pub. Date
2016
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33 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"A Tomás le gusta esconderse. Su madre lo busca por toda la casa, pero Tomás viaja lejos con sus juguetes: a una isla tropical, a la selva y también&.¡al espacio! ¿Dónde estará Tomás? Un libro para los más pequeños con un breve texto poético y unas vibrantes ilustraciones."--Elbuholector.com
15) Big snow
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"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--
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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are...
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