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1) Little night
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Pub. Date
2012
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Estranged from the sister who refused to testify against an abusive husband, Clare pursues a quiet life as a nature blogger in Manhattan only to be approached by her niece, Grit, with whom she confronts a painful shared history.
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Guncle volume 1
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Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed. So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother...
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Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow--nose down, work hard, follow the rules. Sloane went the other way. Now Sloane is back, as beautiful...
5) M3gan
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
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M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that's programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her 8-year-old niece, she decides to give the girl an M3GAN prototype, a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences....
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Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 19 cm
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Helen, an introvert who designs invitations to parties and galas to which she's not welcome, at her uncle Peter's insistence, prints an extra invitation to attend a soiree with Peter as her plus one, and what starts out as an innocent lark becomes much more.
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
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247 pages ; 23 cm.
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With the annual Jubilee Motorcycle Rally approaching, Jarrett Creek residents are divided. Some despise the rowdy, unsavory behaviour of the bikers, but they bring welcome money to local merchants. What's to be done? At a town meeting to find a solution,temperatures flare as Amber Johnson and Lily Deverell - family women on opposing sides of the debate - throw accusations at each other. Attempting to appease both camps, Chief of Police Samuel Craddock...
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Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West, having burned all his other bridges, flees back to his hometown in the Adelaide Hills of Australia. Arriving to a dysfunctional family he abandoned 30 years ago, Easton is a pariah to his sister, who resents him for leaving her to deal with their alcoholic father on her own. Only his outspoken 19-year-old niece, pastry wunderkind Diana, shows any interest. Easton realizes that...
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IFC Films
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A troubled young man and his straight-laced niece embark on a thrilling odyssey through New York City in this heartrending drama based on an Oscar-winning short. As his life hits rock bottom, Richie decides to end it all, only to have his half-hearted suicide attempt interrupted by an urgent request from his sister to babysit her precocious daughter. So begins a madcap tour of Manhattan after dark, as uncle and niece find unexpected bonds in the unlikeliest...
11) Venus
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a nightmare for Ian, especially since she is a hard-drinking,...
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
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Adopting her niece and nephew when her half-brother is murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia, half-Somali photographer Bella disciplines her free-spirited nature and reevaluates her options when the children's mother resurfaces.
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Publisher
Chic Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
525 pages ; 23 cm
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"Si hay algo que tiene claro, es que no es su tipo. Para nada. Knox prefiere vivir su vida tal y como se toma el café: solo. Pero todo cambia cuando llega a su pueblecito un terremoto llamado Naomi, una novia a la fuga en busca de su gemela, de la que lleva años sin saber nada. Lástima que su hermana le robe el coche y el dinero y la deje a cargo de una sobrina que no sabía que existía. Al ver cómo la vida de Naomi se va al traste, Knox decide...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
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Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him.
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Publisher
Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 23 cm.
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Since Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands was going to drive down to the French Riviera for a vacation, he agreed to drop his niece off at a chateau along the way for a visit with her father. But when the pair arrive at the chateau, they find recent vandalism has caused an uneasy atmosphere among the guests. When a child goes missing and then a murder occurs, Sandilands realizes he is no longer on vacation.
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Series
Guncle volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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"With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters"--
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Volatile celebrity chef Easton West finds his new life out of the public eye disrupted when his niece returns flaunting her successful career. They must put their differences aside after someone from the past throws the family into more chaos than ever.
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Knockemout volume 1
Publisher
That's What She Said Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
559 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer....
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Series
Schuler sisters volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men...
20) Love grows
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
A "celebration of family, plants, and the boundlessness of love told in lively, poetic letters from aunt to niece"--
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