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61) Pachinko
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Language
English
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 1
Language
English
Description
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem.
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"The De Villalta, a wealthy bourgeois family from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, receive a worrying and mysterious letter in the middle of the night. The letter reveals the sad events that have devastated them in recent times. Inés, the second daughter, will undertake a trip to peninsular Spain with the sole intention of saving her family. Modesto Andújar arrives in Cádi from Jerez de la Frontera to study Commerce, although his vocation is politics. In...
Series
National Lampoon's vacation volume 3
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is the perfect season for Clark Griswold and his family. Clark's a disaster waiting to happen. You have to see it to believe it. There are 25,000 lights on the Griswold rooftop. An exploding turkey. And a house full of relatives.
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Language
English
Description
The Berenstain Bears can't wait to visit the Bear Country Space Center, where rockets blast off into outer space! When the tour guide gives Mama, Papa, and the cubs a tour of the Big Bear Space Rocket, he makes it very clear not to touch anything. But when Papa sees a big red button, he just can't help himself. Get ready to blast off! The Berenstain Bears Blast Off! is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it's perfect for children learning to...
67) Toast to family
Author
Publisher
Blue Manatee Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An offbeat concept book, this board book uses photographs of faces found in toasted bread as a fun approach for babies and toddlers to learn to identify members of their family. The unique photographs, taken from kiln-formed glass, just might inspire parents and children to try their own hand at making toast faces at home.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A forgotten Iraq war veteran with severe PTSD is trying to pick up the pieces of his life. After a series of set backs he decides to steal a motorcycle and embarks on a cross-country road trip to reunite with his wife and son. Along his journey, he tries to pick up the pieces of a life he's lost since returning from combat and experiences frequent flashbacks to the Iraq War and frequently has conversations with his best friend and war buddy.
Series
Chesapeake Shores volume season 2
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Season two of the multi-generational family drama follows Abby O'Brien, a high-powered career woman, divorcee and mother to twin daughters, as she adjusts to life back in her hometown of Chesapeake Shores. Abby now balances a budding relationship with her former high school sweetheart. Trace, working for a firm that does business with her uncompromising father Mick and raising two young daughters.
70) Christmas time
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...
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When nice guy Ethan casually wishes his life had taken a different course, he wakes up the next day to find nothing is the same he's not married to his wife Joyce, he doesn't have two teenage kids and he2s CEO of his company. If he wants to reclaim his original life and the family he loves, he must convince Joyce he2s telling the truth and win her over5and he only has until Christmas Day.
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Language
English
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Description
Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.
74) Switch
Author
Series
Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gypsy Beaumont's magical savvy switches to its opposite when she learns that her mean and decidedly non-magical grandma has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with her family"--
75) Memphis: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...
Series
Abracadavers volume season 2
Publisher
Octane Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The gang of friends finds themselves at a camp for super-powered youth. Between learning how to control their powers and investigating the shady counselors, the group struggles to adapt to a strange, new environment.
77) Dandelion fire
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
After abandoning his family seventeen years ago, an elderly farmer, Alfonso, returns home to care for his ailing son. He discovers the landscape once familiar to him has been ravaged by toxic smoke and resembles a wasteland. While reconciling his past, Alfonso must save his family from this life-threatening situation.
79) Oh William!
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. 'William,' she confesses, 'has always been a mystery to me.' Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret - one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the...
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Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
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