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181) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
"A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in this follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities...
182) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
183) Flesh and blood
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Helen, Jake and Natalie are thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother announces her love for a new man. Their suspicion of the newcomer triggers events in the siblings' own love lives, which begin to spiral out of control. Can the family pull together, or will old rifts and new conflicts push them apart, even to the point of violence?
Author
Series
Incredible doom volume 1
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to 'Evol BBS,' a dial-in...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.
186) No place like home
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother live in a car and are trying to get to Los Angeles where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting, but even after finding a stray dog, Opin's longing for a stable home intensifies as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high.
187) Antsy does time
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 18 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Marina experiment is the result of over 10,000 photographs, super 8 home footage and reel to reel audiotape interrogations that director Marina Lutz's father made of her during her upper class upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Manhattan. A both eerie and infinitely fascinating archive that she herself has now sorted out and reassembled. Her father's transgressive voyeurism is turned against himself, while a courageous self portrait simultaneously...
189) The Hollars
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Hollar, a struggling NYC artist is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother's illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.
190) Last weekend
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A matriarch asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster.
191) Sharp objects
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 421 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
192) White Fox
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Tai, seventeen, and Manon, eighteen, lured to the Mediterranean island from which their world-famous mother mysteriously vanished a decade earlier, discover her lost screenplay, White Fox, which reveals clues to the truth. Told in multiple voices.
After their world-famous actor mother disappeared Manon and Tha��s left their remote Mediterranean island home, sent away by their pharma-tech tycoon father. The sisters drifted apart in their grief,...
193) The Noel diary
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years--not since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen. When a lawyer calls, days before Christmas, to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him, Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and reconcile with the past and the pain and abuse he experienced as a child. Also, maybe cleaning...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to her hometown in Iowa to spend time with her parents and care for them in the time they have left. The months Kate spends with her parents in Dubuque--by turns turbulent, tragic, and joyful--lead her to reflect on each of their lives and how they shaped her own. Those...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives 'like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path'. But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker,...
196) Persuasion
Author
Series
Language
English
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Romance
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Romance
Description
Anne Elliot lives at Kellynch Hall with her family, but when financial struggles set in they decide to move. Then her life is forever changed as she is reunited with Wentworth, a past fiancé who she never married. Through her journey, Anne may find that what she has been looking for was right in front of her the whole time.
197) Marmalade boy: 1
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The shojo rom-com manga classic that inspired the beloved anime--now in a large-trim omnibus edition with a new translation and bonus color content! Miki's life was pretty ordinary until the day her parents told her they were swapping spouses with another couple! Thanks to this unconventional arrangement, Miki now has two new stepparents and a hot new stepbrother, Yuu! Miki isn't exactly thrilled with her new situation, and though Yuu is super cute,...
198) The last one home
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning home to the Sacramento family estate, Lauren Abrams, determined to find out what really happened between her mother and father, who was accused of murder, years ago, is sent to a dark place where she may not be able to see the truth to save her life.
Lauren Abrams wants nothing to do with her mother, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren's father to prison for murder years ago. After a serial killer's confession to the crime restored justice,...
199) A furry faux paw
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publising Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes Your Best Self Is Your Fursona. Online, MauveCat (a cool, confident, glittering pixie cat) has friends and a whole supportive furry community that appreciates her art. At home, Maeve Stephens has to tiptoe around her hoarder mother's mood and mess. When her life is at its hardest, Maeve can always slip into Mauve, her fursona, and be "the happy one," the bubbliest, friendliest artist in her community--it's even how she made her best friend,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (652 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
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