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Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A very Mary Christmas: A pregnant teen named Mary runs away from her un-supportive mother and finds help along the way from an eccentric cast of characters.
Beyond tomorrow: Three wealthy men decide to share their Christmas with some less fortunate people. They settle on two down-and-outers, a man and a woman who then fall in love.
Angel in the family: Sisters, separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding, find themselves brought back togehter for...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero...
5003) Hungry ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself taking a good, hard look at her priorities, her choices, and her own body. The path to happiness may lead her away from her hometown and her mother's toxic projections, but first she will have to find the strength to seek help.
5004) Four sons
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This film tells the tale of the Bavarian Bernle family and how their lives are affected by the outbreak of World War I. Mother Bernle is heartbroken when her sons are called to the front-- and on opposite sides. As two choose to fight for the Allies, while the other two fight for the Germans, the family is visited by the inevitable cruel irony of war: not only are the brothers likely to discover one another on the battlefield, they may also find a...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sonya Curry chronicles the never-before-shared story of raising her children and her lifelong devotion to education, family, and faith. Like her superstar sons' and extraordinary daughter's, Sonya Curry's journey was filled with defeats and hard-fought victories, but hers took place out of the limelight, without the eyes of the world watching, cheering, or drawing inspiration from her example. Until now. In this inspiring memoir, Curry tells her story...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The six sections of the book explore what it means to be a young woman living in a world that doesn't always hear her and tell the story of Kiran as she flees a history of trauma and raises her daughter, Sahaara, while living undocumented in North America. Delving into current cultural conversations including sexual assault, mental health, feminism, and immigration, this narrative of resilience, healing, empowerment, and love will galvanize readers...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A moving and wickedly funny memoir about one woman's life as the daughter of a Warhol superstar, and the intimate bonds of mother-daughter relationships Alex Auder's life began at the Chelsea Hotel--New York City's infamous bohemian hangout--when her mother, Viva, a longtime resident of the hotel and one of Andy Warhol's superstars, went into labor in the lobby. These first moments of Alex's life, documented by her filmmaker father, Michel Auder,...
5009) Black X-mas
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In this remake of the horror classic, Billy was abused by his mother, who cheats on his father and ends up killing him. For years Billy is kept in the attic while she and her lover start a "new" family. Billy's mother becomes pregnant and has a daughter. She is treated with love, a love which Billy has never experienced. After years in the attic, Billy comes out and brutally murders his mother and her lover. Now living in Billy's childhood home, a...
5010) La luna dentro de mí
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas... por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse atraída por un chico por primera vez y por la exploración que hace su mejor amiga de lo que significa ser género fluido. Pero, sobre todo, por la insistencia de su madre en hacerle una ceremonia lunar cuando le llegue su primer periodo. Se trata de un ancestral ritual mexica que Mima y su comunidad han rescatado, pero Celi se promete a sí misma...
5011) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health...
5012) Alice in exile
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Alice Fry, a free-thinking woman who is rejected by Edward Cobb, the eligible son of an ambitious baronet, builds a new life for herself in Russia during the Russian Revolution and World War I.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
""Cuando Rosayra Pablo Cruz tomó la desgarradora decisión de buscar asilo en Estados Unidos con sus dos hijos, sabía que la travesía sería difícil, peligrosa y probablemente mortal. Pero la violencia rampante en Guatemala era insostenible; Rosy sab́a que su familia sólo sobreviviría si migraba al norte.T ras un peligroso viaje que los deja deshidratados, hambrientos y exhaustos, Rosy y sus hijos logran llegar a Arizona. Pero casi...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Here at last, in her own words, is this extraordinary woman's story, brought to the public for the first time. Full of wit, charm, and astonishing wisdom, Abigail's private writings offer a moving, intimate portrait of a mother, a wife, a sister, and a fierce intellect that demands to be heard.
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...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader, join forces against a corrupt New York waterfront union official. The two share a bond that cuts across society's black/white divide. A patch...
Author
Series
Enola Holmes the graphic novels volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
GN 440L
Language
English
Description
"Enola Holmes is back on the case, deciphering clues and developing leads in each of three new mysteries. To solve them, she'll have to don new disguises, fooling even her prying brothers!" --
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ladies of leisure: During the flapper era, a young woman tries to ensnare her confirmed bachelor beau. Meanwhile, her brother falls for a woman with a dark past.
Rain or shine: A young woman inherits her father's financially troubled circus.
Miracle woman: Based loosely on the life of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. After Florence Fallon's father is fired from the church where he preached for many years, she becomes embittered and loses...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Pete the cat and the bad banana. Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and vows never to eat bananas again, even though he generally likes the fruit.
Go, Pete, go! A groovy Pete the Cat adaptation of "The Tortoise and the Hare" finds a bike-riding Pete accepting a challenge from Turtle, who has a new racing car with cool gadgets.
Sir Pete the brave. When a dragon kidnaps Lady Callie, Sir Pete the Brave must come to her rescue.
Rock on, mom and dad!...
5020) Impossible
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
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Description
It was just a minute, but it changed everything. Jemma is finally free of her abusive ex-boyfriend, Razor. All she wants now is to be a good mom to her baby daughter. But one night she decides to go out, just for a minute, to get diapers and ice cream. On the way back she witnesses the drive by shooting of a kid, Kwame, who lives in the same building as her. The driver is Razor. Jemma is terrified. If she tells anyone what she saw, they'll know she...
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