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"In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of human emotion. How does it feel to be a child taken into a family that doesn't share her background, her religion, or the color of her skin? What does it mean to be a mother on trial for murder? And why would a lawyer choose...
2) Fatherhood
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
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Sunset, Kentucky. After putting the brakes on her dead-end relationship, local veterinarian Ivey Anders is ready to soak up this summer on her own terms. The way she sees it, no dating means no disappointment. But when she meets Corbin Meyer-- and his troubled young son, Justin-- Ivey's no-strings strategy threatens to unravel before she can put it into practice. Trust doesn't come easy for Ivey's best friend, Hope Mage, a veterinary-clinic assistant...
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"Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish killed himself. Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping to make a fresh start and find some peace. Instead, Jack finds a town mired in secrecy and...
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Holland family saga volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
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2022.
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Nearly bankrupt and losing control of the cocktail of drugs and alcohol that gets him through the day, widower and ex-rally driver Spencer Burnham gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to be the getaway driver for a lethal gangster who wants to pull off one last heist.
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Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for—except for a husband, and a title. While in Italy, acquiring art for his museum back in the states, Maggie's millionaire father Adam decides to remedy this and acquire a husband for Maggie. Enter Prince Amerigo, of a titled, but now poor, aristocratic Florentine family. Amerigo is the perfect candidate. Delighted, Maggie then reciprocates by choosing a partner for her widower father:
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Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
403 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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English
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Wulliam is about to turn 16 and take over his father's job as Riverkeep. This job, safeguarding a section of the Danék, is passed from father to son and includes fishing out bodies for burial. Then his father becomes possessed by a bodhan, and Wull's only chance to save his beloved Pappa is to harvest part of a mormorach, a gigantic mythical sea monster recently sighted in nearby waters. Helping Wull in his quest are the homunculus Tillinghast; a...
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"The daughter of one of the South's most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this "tender and wise" debut novel. Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam's father--one of the South's most famous preachers--holds massive...
12) The waking land
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Waking land volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"A young girl is kidnapped by the king to punish her father's rebellion against him. Years later, she returns home a fugitive, while grappling with a repressed magic that could, if mastered, make her the most powerful person in two kingdoms"--
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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First Sgt. Charles Monroe King keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas. His wife, the senior editor for the New York Times, relates the story of their relationship to their son as he grows up.
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