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"A woman with a shocking secret is missing, presumed dead. And her two husbands are suspects in her murder. DCI Clements knows the dark side of human nature and that love can make people do treacherous things...Until a body is found, this sad case remains wide open. Stacie Jones lives a quiet life in a small village, nursed by her father as she recovers from illness, and shielded from any news of the outside world. But their reclusive life is about...
2) Prophet song
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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English
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"An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall--until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic,...
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2023.
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English
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"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"--
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty...
6) Gremlins
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special edition, widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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When a young bank teller inadvertently breaks the rules of Mogwai care, his new pet, Gizmo, multiplies into a bevy of mischievous brothers, who soon morph into malevolent scaly creatures.
7) Slay
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English
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"Evil continues to rain down on a vampire hunter and those she most cherishes in this new, gripping novel in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita Blake is finally ready to marry Jean-Claude, the vampire king of America. But first, they must tackle a new, daunting challenge: her family. And with the ancient evil that cast a shadow on St. Louis still lurking and threatening to destroy...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
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551 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
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English
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"After a lifetime of taking care of his sister and niece, Tom is ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece. Assuming, that is, he can keep the demands of his family at bay. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily, is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and relationship. And after decades...
10) It Takes Two
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1995.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Two identical girls have lived very different lives. The outspoken Amanda has been moving from foster home to foster home, while the quiet refined Alyssa has been raised in a world of privilege and luxury. Amanda faces adoption and the loss of Diana, her loving social worker. Alyssa faces losing her father, Roger, to an opportunistic fiancee. The two girls swap identities in a plan to bring Roger and Diana closer together.
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English
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"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...
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Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Widescreen version.
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2 videodiscs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
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Now that Twilight has a wife and daughter, the next phase of his mission begins. But with clairvoyant dogs, secret police brother-in-laws, and love-obsessed spies, can he keep his cover amid the chaos? Peace between the East and the West demands it!
13) Day: a novel
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English
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
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2023.
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English
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Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to...
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English
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Will her daughter's secret tear her family apart? When troubled teenager Immy disappears, she leaves her widowed mother Bea completely devastated. Bea pours her love into her six-year-old niece Phoebe, even taking her in when her single father Ewan takes a job abroad. Then Immy returns, in desperate need of her mother's help and love. But Ewan is clear: he will never let Bea see Phoebe again if she welcomes her daughter back. As Bea grapples with...
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English
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After two personal tragedies in one year, the landscape of Gertrude's life looks flat and barren. Suddenly childless, she wanders in a vast emptiness for months. Her women gather, bringing sustenance and encouragement, but it is not until a long look in the mirror shows a serious weight loss and sickly pallor, that she knows a change must be made. Summoning an intrepid strength, Gert pulls herself together and takes a step forward. With relief and...
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English
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Spark conversation and connection with 400 thoughtful questions for blended families
Asking thought-provoking questions can help blended families bond and get to know each other better. No matter what kind of blended arrangement you have, this book will inspire you and your family to share thoughts and experiences with each other through fun, lighthearted questions and deeper, more reflective prompts.
What sets this blended family book apart:...
18) Old Cats
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
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Isadora discovers that her mind is quickly fading. At a relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has. Official Selection of the **Sundance Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"...this exquisite chamber piece by Chilean filmmakers Pedro Peirano and Sebastián Silva hasn't lost an ounce of...
19) All Is Forgiven
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
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Victor adores his wife Annette and their young daughter Pamela, but his self-loathing and drug use take their toll and the family disintegrates. A decade later, Pamela lives in Paris where Victor still resides, and the two reunite.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 160 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels embodied Australia's tumultuous 70s and 80s, and her incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. The Atlantic dubbed her "the Joan Didion of Australia." Now, The Children's Bach, the beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern international letters, is available in a new US edition. The Children's Bach follows...
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