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1) Bowlaway
Author
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable...
3) Our friend
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Matt, his vibrant wife Nicole and their two young daughters, have their lives upended by Nicole's heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life-altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could...
4) Sunset Beach
Author
Language
English
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Description
Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried -- to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her...
Author
Publisher
Erewhon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Growing up on their parents' mythical stories about the opportunities of Australia, a brother and sister travel with their family from war-torn Pakistan through temporary homes in Indonesia and Nauru, before government indifference in Australia challenges their dreams.
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family,...
8) The estate
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea in this hilarious comedy about family being the worst.
10) The Rosie result
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be...
11) Firestarter
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns eleven, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a...
12) A crooked tree
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Finding solace in the trees her late Irish immigrant father taught her to revere, a teenage girl in 1980s Pennsylvania finds her young life shattered in the wake of a summer evening gone terribly wrong.
Publisher
Studio Ghibli
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Join in the hilarious adventures of the quirky Yamada family in this wonderfully offbeat celebration of the little and sometimes bigger victories of life. Presented in a series of brilliant comic vignettes, Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko navigate their way through the ups and downs of work, marriage, and family life wiht a sharp-tongued grandmother, a teenage son who wished he had cooler parents, and a young daughter with an unusually loud...
14) The every body book: the LGBTQ+ inclusive guide for kids about sex, gender, bodies, and families
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This vibrant and beautifully illustrated book educates children about sex, gender, and relationships in a way that is inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Covering puberty, hormones, pregnancy, consent, sex, babies, relationships, and families, it uses gender-neutral language throughout and celebrates diversity in all its forms, including race, ethnicity, faith, bodies, gender, and sexuality. For use with children ages 8-12."...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Aisha's fisherman father goes missing, she takes to the sea on a skeleton boat to rescue him. Guided by a talking scholar's cat, who sparks her interest in the mysterious House of Rust, she encounters three monsters hidden beneath the waves. All Aisha wants is for things to return to normal. But a showdown with the father of all sharks looms, and at home, things only grow stranger"--Page 4 of cover.
18) Brave new world
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This five-part series probes fundamental changes taking place in the world today, involving such fields as computer technology, neurobiology and genetic engineering. Volume 1 looks at how machines are speeding up the pace of life, and why speed is so attractive. Volume 2 explores the current and future state of human/machine hybrids. Volume 3 questions what makes a family--nature or nurture, covention or commitment. It profiles a family with 3 biological...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As the Walsh twins, Brandon and Brenda, learn their way around a town where kids grow up fast, both they and their friends Dylan, Kelly, Donna, Steve, Andrea and David experience the highs and lows of love, lust, and loss.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Silver bells. When an ambitious businessman gets in a scuffle with a ref at his son's basketball game, he is suspended from his job and sentenced to community service, manning a red kettle and ringing bells for the Salvation Army for the rest of the Christmas season. At first he finds this humiliating, and in his self-pity determines to be the world's worst bell ringer. But as he encounters the people behind the kettle, his life, and especially his...
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