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1) East of Eden
Author
Language
English
Description
California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies and fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons with helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve and the murderous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
3) Almost time
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan eagerly anticipates making maple syrup with his father, but it will not be time until the days are warmer, the nights shorter, and Ethan's loose tooth falls out.
4) The sellout
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...
5) Nebraska
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancé to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to cheer up his dad after a disappointing soccer game, Splat enters a Cat School Picnic father-son six-legged race that does not turn out quite as expected.
10) The Kentuckian
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Kentuckian Big Eli Wakefield as he and his son travel to Texas in 1820 to start a new life.
11) Ad astra
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
12) The gambler
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an experienced card player sets out on a journey to meet his son, he encounters a young man along the way and shares lessons about life and gambling.
13) October sky
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Working in the coal mines was an inescapable way of life in the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia in 1957. When high schooler Homer Hickam, Jr. sees the Sputnik satellite in the night sky, he dares to break free of the mines and reach for the stars. With the support of his teacher and three friends, Homer sets out on an inspiring quest to build his own rocket. Overcoming a poor education, a tough father, and a series of misfires, Homer turns his...
14) Coming 2 America
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (approximately 277 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The amazing Spider-man: In this original story high school student Peter Parker stumbles across a clue as to why his parents vanished when he was young, and soon finds himself on a collision course with his dad's former partner, Dr. Curt Connors who can transform into a humanoid lizard.
The amazing Spider-man 2: It's great to be Spider-Man, but being Spider-Man comes at a price: Peter in love with Gwen Stacy struggles with the responsibilities of...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015, 2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled night as Larry spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
18) The dark valley
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
When mysterious outsider, Greider, rides into town for the winter, everyone wants him gone. Refusing to leave, Greider sparks into motion a series of deadly events in this thrilling revenge western.
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