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21) Fly away home
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
22) Eileen
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
24) Honey
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When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martin's life revolves solely around two things: the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise. But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school and Hugues meets his match in Natalie Peterson, a woman who understands him and his love for the Vendôme.
27) Off the map
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bo, an 11-year-old girl, lives in a remote desert area of New Mexico, with her mother, a free spirit, and her father, who is losing a battle with depression. One day an IRS agent visits the family, to perform an audit, and decides that he would rather stay than return to his job. He becomes a catalyst for major changes and discoveries affecting every member of the family.
29) Interstellar
Pub. Date
2015
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Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
31) The sick day
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Description
Emily's father takes care of everything the day she has a "stomach ache in her head."
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Description
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Celebrate the platinum anniversary of the unforgettable comedy classic plus the uproarious follow-up Father of the Bride, Part II on Blu-ray for the first time ever. Things get out of hand for befuddled father George Banks when his young daughter unexpectedly announces her plans to wed. Life gets even crazier in the side-splitting sequel when his daughter and his wife both announce they are pregnant, and George desperately tries to capture the wild...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Eric Schroder brings his daughter, Meadow, to Lake Champlain, Vermont, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife-- who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. A deftly imagined novel on the many identities we take on in our lives-- those...
37) Fear the worst
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When his seventeen-year-old daughter fails to return from her summer job at the local hotel, an alarmed Tim discovers that the teen never worked there and has gone missing, a situation that turns more terrifying when his initial search results in a deaththreat.
38) Little Dorrit
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Charles Dickens's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea.
39) Inheritance
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Natalie Danford's exquisitely written novel Inheritance asks a simple question: How well do we know our parents? One-half of the story begins after the death of Luigi Bonocchio, an Italian immigrant whose daughter, Olivia, discovers a mysterious deed among his possessions. The deed is to a house in Urbino, Italy, the hometown he barely spoke of. Intrigued, Olivia travels there. At first she is charmed by the historic city, the relatives she's not...
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