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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his father's single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence. His dad may be brilliant, but dumpster-diving for food, scouring through trash for salvageable junk, and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried about what schoolmates and a certain girl at his new school might think of his circumstances-and encouraged by his off-kilter best friend-Carl adopts the principles...
82) Getting lucky
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
She sat down on the porch. "Did you get amnesia in Iraq?"
He was busy putting Lizzy in the passenger's seat and shutting the door. When she said Iraq, he jerked his head and frowned. "I never went to Iraq."
"Then the uniform was a hoax to pick up women?"
Griffin stopped. "Six years ago my identical twin brother went to Iraq. He was killed two days after he got there. Are you mistaking me for Graham?"
"Holy shit. Two of you?"
...84) My pa
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
This is an easy children's book that shares a few special ways to describe the many different dads. It is filled with bright watercolors to compliment a simple yet rhythmic prose. It ends with a thank you note of appreciation.--Amazon.com.
85) Human capital
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Italiano
Description
After a cyclist is hit by a Jeep, the destinies of two families are tied together.
Author
Series
Dukes behaving badly volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Miss Lily Russell crosses the threshold of the Duke of Rutherford's stylish townhouse, she knows she has come face to face with sensual danger. For this is no doting papa. Rather, his behavior is scandalous, and his reputation rightly earned. And his pursuit of her is nearly irresistible--but resist she must for the sake of her pupil. As for the duke himself, it was bad enough when his unknown child landed on his doorstep. Now Lily, with her...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Will Hayes is a 30-something Manhattan dad who is in the midst of a divorce. His 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins years earlier when, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician, he moves to New York in order to work on the Clinton campaign. Will attempts a "PG" version of his romantic relationships...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father from Alzheimer's, Missy Fletcher packs her bags and goes to Italy. Once there she meets a new friend and soon finds herself signing away her inheritance and betting on a risky plan and rekindles a lost love.
89) Maggie
Publisher
Grindstone, distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic thriller set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic. As the nation reels from a virus that turns its victims into zombies, Wade's daughter Maggie has been infected. Now, as Maggie's condition worsens, Wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson is named in the trust of a man she's never heard of, she's...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When it is revealed that her esteemed father had been involved in a public scandal before his untimely death, Daisy Richardson's family must sell the family home in Georgetown they can no longer afford-- but Daisy's mother is holding on with an iron grip. Her younger sister, Wallis, is ready to move on to bigger and better things but falls fast and hard for the most inconvenient person possible. And Atlas, Daisy's best friend, is writing an exposé...
92) Back of beyond
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Taking over her family's failing taxidermy shop in the wake of her father's suicide, grief-stricken Jessa-Lynn Morton pursues less-than-legal ways of generating income while struggling to figure out her place among her eccentric loved ones.
94) Before we sleep
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Set in a lovingly realized Vermont setting, tracking the changes that come with the turning of the seasons--and decades--and signaling the dawning of a new freedom as Katey moves out into a world in flux, Before We Sleep is a novel about family, about family secrets, and about the love that holds families together. It is also about the Greatest Generation as it moves into the very different era of the 1960s, and about the trauma of war that so profoundly...
95) Run all night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire, Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past. Lately, it seems Jimmy's only solace can be found at the bottom of a whiskey glass. But when his estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between his crime family and the real family he abandoned long ago.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tim Allen returns as Mike Baxter in Last Man Standing, a show about everything that families in America are dealing with today - all filtered through the blunt 'man's man' comedy of an iconic American character.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A riotously funny, emotionally raw New York Times bestselling novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or not.
The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously...
The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This ode to the power of imagination and sky-high courage takes readers on an out-of-this-world adventure as Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together to reach for the stars--a tireless quest to reach the unreachable.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
On the run from an evil rurale captain, Bethel Strange, after being rescued by Colter Farrow, searches for her father, outlaw Jed Strange, in Mexico where she and Colter become caught in the middle of a savage war between gunrunners, Apaches and a notorious Mexican bandit.
100) People like us
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While settling his recently deceased father's estate and reconnecting with his estranged family, a twenty-something salesman discovers he has a half sister.
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