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1) Daddy's home
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children. But complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids. The two competing dads suddenly find themselves in a heated competition for affection. One brings home a dog; the other brings home a pony. And this war only escalates from there.
3) Spooner
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
469 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren. By the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.
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In order to play tennis with his local rec team, Deion agrees to play doubles, even though it feels like a different game to him--but he has the nagging feeling that he is holding his partner, Cole, back until they both accept help from Deion's stepfather who turns out to have wicked aim.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The signs are everywhere, acccording to Jory's stepfather, Caleb. The end is coming, and they must be prepared. School is Jory's only escape from Caleb's tight grasp, and with the help of new friends, he begins to explore a world beyond his family's desert ranch"--
7) Hands
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.
8) Sister dear
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Shattered by the discovery that she is not biologically related to her recently deceased father, Eleanor unsuccessfully reaches out to her biological father before becoming obsessed by her half-sister's seemingly perfect life.
12) Possum
Publisher
Mpi Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A troubled children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home, confronting his evil stepfather and painful memories as a local investigation for a missing boy looms in the background.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. When their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own but determined to stay in his beloved old house, they offer to purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property. But Claire's old flame Jonas Fairwether (who has become...
Author
Series
Secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything -- fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather's unwanted attention. Together in the eaves of a house with its own murderous history, the best friends concoct a scheme that will put Karen's stepfather in his place. It wasn't supposed to turn deadly. But in the attic Karen shares...
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Series
Bellinger sisters romances volume 1
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Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar...in Washington. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when...
Series
Hammer Films the icons of suspense collection volume disc 2
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (176 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The snorkel (1958): A young girl can't convince anyone her stepfather's a killer; Maniac (1962): A man finds himself in the middle of a strange mother/daughter threesome.
18) Don't know tough
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent...
19) The cheerleaders
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As a town prepares for the anniversary of the deaths of five cheerleaders who were killed in three separate, horrific accidents, two teens uncover long-buried truths about what really happened years ago"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with a tale of fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. Having married a mother, he discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, to this boy in particular, a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect--a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was. With the weight of this new boy tugging at him, Rick sets out to understand his father, his...
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