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61) Intruders
Description
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow's beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive...
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Description
Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a growing connection between these two guarded strangers.
65) Donovan's Reef
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
Series
Last man standing volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
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 ..."--Cover.
67) The Lovely Bones
Description
When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
68) Absolute Power
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
A jewel thief witnesses the American president commit a murder and cannot remain silent through the ensuing coverup.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Living in "the Bathtub," a marginal Delta community in southern Louisiana, six-year-old Hushpuppy sets out in search of her lost mother on a makeshift raft after her father falls ill and nature seems to unleash its fury in rising floodwaters and attacks from prehistoric creatures called aurochs.
Series
Last Man Standing volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Follows the continuing events and developments in the family life of Mike Baxter, his wife Vanessa and their three daughters, Eve, Kristin and Mandy, including Kristin and Ryan's upcoming wedding and the opening of Mike's wild game restaurant, the Outdoor Man Grill.
72) The new daughter
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Academy-Award®-winner Kevin Costner stars as John, a newly divorced father who moves into a rural South Carolina home with his adolescent daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero of PAN'S LABYRINTH) and young son Sam (Gattlin Griffith of CHANGELING). But when Louisa begins to behave in a bizarre and increasingly violent matter, John must uncover the truth behind her transformation. Is the former owner's shocking secret to blame? And how far will a father...
73) Fatherhood
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A father brings up his baby girl as a single dad after the unexpected death of his wife who died a day after their daughter's birth.
74) Crawl
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
75) Blood father
Description
When his estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John Link must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
76) Scrapper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs,...
78) Trust
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
79) Swing vote
Description
The ghost of Frank Capra is summoned up in Swing Vote, a populist comedy about the U.S. presidential election--because of an electoral deadlock--coming down to one man, one vote. Alarmingly (for the future of the world), that one man is Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner), a beer-swilling, newly-unemployed divorced dad in Texico, New Mexico. Bud's got a week to re-cast his flawed ballot, so the entire election process--including the two candidates, played...
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