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1) Sail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A mother and her three children struggle to survive on the most shocking vacation of their lives.
James Patterson, America's #1 bestselling thriller writer, presents his most suspenseful, explosive tale ever. Only an hour out of port, the Dunne family's summer getaway to paradise is already turning into the trip from hell. The three children are miserable, and not shy about showing it. Katherine Dunne had hoped this vacation would bring...
James Patterson, America's #1 bestselling thriller writer, presents his most suspenseful, explosive tale ever. Only an hour out of port, the Dunne family's summer getaway to paradise is already turning into the trip from hell. The three children are miserable, and not shy about showing it. Katherine Dunne had hoped this vacation would bring...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Members of the Drummond family descend upon Florida to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah, but their trip is turned upside down by a series of mishaps, coincidences, and bizarre events including kidnapping, gunplay, and black-market negotiations.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated anything to do with domesticity. The Walls children learned to...
4) Sordid lives
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Edition
Widescreen version (1.77:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Texas sized, twisted white-trash tale that involves the sordid details about a southern dysfunction family who have been brought together for the funeral of "Grandma Peggy". She dies after tripping over her lover's wooden legs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
Author
Series
Peaches volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
9) Crow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.
10) At close range
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A crime boss father has to make some tough choices in dealing with his sons who have formed a gang in order to get into the "family business."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When you were a child...-Did your parents tell you you were bad or worthless?-Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you?-Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems?-Were you often frightened of your parents?-Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?Now that you're an adult...-Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child?-Do you have intense emotional or physical reactions after spending...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a small southern town in 1964, fourteen-year-old Lily, haunted by the death of her mother, leaves home to escape her cruel father to live with their African American housekeeper and the Boatwright sisters.
13) Lit: a memoir
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Karr's bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry-and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year-Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (680 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss finds his life, what with hits, extortion and Mafia business, as well as his mother, teenage kids and wife, so stressful that he seeks out psychotherapy.
18) Snow angels
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen, full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of a teenager and his former babysitter, now coworkers at a small town Chinese restaurant, as they deal with their dysfunctional families.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. with b&w segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When orphan Flora Poste descends on her eccentric relatives at Cold Comfort Farm, she finds nothing but chaos and sees it her duty to restore order.
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