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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
834 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
2022) A way to the stars
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
This ode to the power of imagination and sky-high courage takes readers on an out-of-this-world adventure as Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together to reach for the stars--a tireless quest to reach the unreachable.
2023) Father of the bride
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A befuddled father has a hard time letting go of his daughter when she unexpectedly announces her plan to marry.
2024) Half brothers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two half brothers go on a road trip together in hopes of tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the US.
Series
Forbidden Hollywood volume 10
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (358 min) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
114 pages ; 19 cm
Description
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of...
2028) Boy
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An eleven-year-old Maori boy living on a farm in New Zealand imagines his absent father in a heroic version, and when he finally gets the chance to meet him, he finds a man vastly different from what he imagined.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Erin Hosier and her family belonged to a strict evangelical church in Bainbridge, Ohio, for the first fourteen years of her life. But Erin was a rebel of the eighties who dyed her hair with cherry Kool-Aid while loudly defending liberal causes. Behind closed doors, she and her family were "five mentally ill people at different stages of development, screaming and flailing hysterically like hyenas." At the heart of the family was her father, Jack,...
2032) Somewhere
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Description
"A young girl and her father walk through familiar streets on a brilliant, sun-drenched day. When they reach a park, the girl lets go of her father's hand. It is time for her to journey out on her own. As her father keeps watch, she finds an unfamiliar place--an extraordinary forest that blooms around her, lush and larger than life."--
2033) The poacher's son
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Desperate and alone, game warden Mike Bowditch strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive--Mike's father. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer--which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
2035) Duck, duck, Dad?
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Description
Ralph the dog enjoys a quiet life, but when he stumbles across an egg he unexpectedly becomes the dad to a flock of ducklings.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1946
Physical Desc
vi, 470 pages, 1 leaf ; 22 cm
Description
" ... are the small freeholders of the Icelandic countryside--operators of the one-man, one-family farm got by inheritance or puchase and held with grim tenacity against all connivances of nature and man by folk whose ruling passion is to be their own masters on their own acres." [Dust jacket]
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Daisy has realized you really can hit rock bottom when you lose your job, your boyfriend, and are estranged from your sister all at once. Seeking to claw her way out from the very definition of a bad year, her plan is to start by simply looking like she's clawing her way out of rock bottom. On Instagram. Obviously. But when she takes a stopgap job as a nanny to help a single father with his two young girls, being immersed in a close-knit, loving...
2039) Find me
Author
Series
Inland Empire volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher has finally offered to lead San Bernardino detective Daniel Ellis to the isolated graves of his victims. One catch: he'll only do it if FBI profiler Reni Fisher, his estranged daughter, accompanies them. As hard asit is to exhume her traumatic childhood, Reni can't say no. She still feels complicit in her father's crimes."--
2040) View from Pagoda Hill
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"Twelve-year-old Ning doesn't know where she belongs. The daughter of a Chinese woman and American man, Ning doesn't fit in in 1870s Shanghai, where her American features and unbound feet make her stand out. When she receives news that her father will be visiting from America, Ning excitedly hopes that her parents will become a family. Instead, she learns that her father is taking her back with him to America. Ning wonders if being American will finally...
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