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1922) Life's what you make it
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Miley is going through a major identity crisis. Not only is she starting high school, but she's also has to make some tough decisions about taking back Jake and traveling to a concert without her super-cool dad there for support. Adding to the drama, Hannah totally croaks in concert and has to deal with possibly losing her stellar singing voice, not to mention her superstar identity.
1923) A wrinkle in time
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting. It is he, however, who convinces her to join him, the school sports star Calvin, and three unusual women on an interplanetary voyage to rescue their father from a vast evil.
1924) About Schmidt /Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Newly retired Warren Schmidt and his wife Helen have big plans to see America, but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
1925) How to steal a million
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
Author
Series
Three little girls dressed in blue volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Teased by her sisters for her lack of interest in a young man worth her devotion, former Bostonian Amoretta Ipswich secretly holds on to a dream of marrying the gypsy Brake McClendon.
1927) Coach. The third season
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Hayden Fox, head coach of the Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.
1928) Not forgotten
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Jack Bishop lives the life of every man's dream. He has a beautiful wife, a happy, healthy daughter, the career he always wanted, and a loving home in a peaceful Texas border town. It is no coincidence that Jack's life seems perfect. But when his 11-year-old daughter is kidnapped, he will hunt her abductors and unleash his own tortured soul, into a Mexican hell of barrios and bordellos controlled by the mysterious religion of La Santa Muerte. Jack...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In True Colors, the Grey sisters of Water's Edge, a small Washington town, have just buried their mother. Their father Henry, devastated by this, decides to bury his pain in the bottom of a liquor bottle. Moving forward thirteen years, the author delves into the lives and hearts of these young women, their families, and the strong bonds of sisterhood that is tested by jealousy, passion, and betrayal.
In Summer Island, thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.
A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family,...
1931) Daddy's little girls
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Monty is a blue-collar mechanic who enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney while trying to gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. As these two people try to overcome their different backgrounds, they find love. Monty struggles to protect his children from abuse and...
1932) Tideland
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Take a trip to the far side of reality in the town of Eureka, where innovation and chaos go hand-in-hand. Reunite with the town's hard-working sheriff, Carter, as he tries to deal with his adopted hometown's unique geniuses while trying to raise his feisty teenage daughter on his own.
1934) Emma
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town, In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
1935) Eye of the dolphin
Pub. Date
2008
Description
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl moves to the Bahamas to live with her estranged marine-biologist father and befriends a dolphin.
1936) November Christmas
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"The adventures of Cat and her cat, Sushi, continue in more comic escapdes. To get away from it all, and get from rest and relaxation, Cat, her cat, and her dad visit the great outdoors. Being a single parent is never easy, and having a daughter such as Cat, not to mention a cat that's also very much a part of the family, may be too much for her dad to handle no matter how much they all may love each other!" -- Page [4] cover
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Life was quiet for Cat (short for Catherine) and her dad until they adopted a cat named Sushi... now things are a bit too exciting! Between turning everything into either a personal scratching post or litter box, and the constant cat and mouse game of 'love me/leave me alone,' Cat and her dad have a lot to learn. It's a hilarious chronicle of daily life of a single parent, a little girl named Cat, and their cat."--
1939) Trouble with the curve
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
"Gus Lobel...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Although the Winds of Mackinac Inn has been in her mother's family for generations, Maude Welling's father refuses to let her run it without the guidance of a husband. So she seeks to prove her worth and independence by working incognito as a maid at the Grand Hotel. While undercover journalist Ben Steffan pursues a story about impoverished men chasing heiresses at the famed hotel, he becomes attracted to an intriguing maid. By an act of heroism...