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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Kevin Snowdon is a London-based physics teacher who leans on science to support his obsessive dislike for Christmas (much to the dismay of his wife and children) until his wife schemes a reservation mishap that sends him and his family to the Christmas themed tourist destination of Lapland. His dread turns to disaster, as a confrontation with their rival family (who has it all and is not shy about rubbing it in) coincides with a surreal Santa sighting...
4) Some luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s.
5) Naomi's room
Author
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charles and Laura are a young, happily married couple inhabiting the privileged world of Cambridge academia. Brimming with excitement, Charles sets off with his daughter Naomi on a Christmas Eve shopping trip to London. But, by the end of the day, all Charles and his wife have left are cups of tea and police sympathy. For Naomi, their beautiful, angelic only child, has disappeared. Days later her murdered body is discovered. But is she dead?
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On a secluded farm, a man is bedridden and fighting through his final breaths while his wife slowly succumbs to overwhelming grief. Siblings Louise and Michael return home to help, but it doesn't take long for them to see that something's wrong with mom too. Gradually, they begin to suffer a darkness similar to their mother's, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that an evil entity is taking over their family.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game. As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, not knowing if what they're seeing is real or staged.
8) Harper
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Harper, an eleven-year-old girl finds her life shattered when her single father dies suddenly. Forced to live on a dilapidated farm with an Aunt she's never met, Harper must adjust to her new reality. However, just as she settles in, Isabella, her rich Southern Belle mother appears to claim the child she abandoned at birth. Faced with an uncertain future this young girl inspires us all with her resiliency and determination in the face of secrets,...
9) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
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