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81) There there
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Language
English
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Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to her family. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together and has come to work the powwow in his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself...
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English
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The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo's marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange object in the backyard of the family home, the Izquierdos take it as proof that a jealous neighbor has cursed them-could this...
83) Buffalo '66
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
C.I.A. agent, Billy Brown, brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only Billy's not really in the C.I.A., and his "wife, " Layla, is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents. In reality, Billy's whole life is an empty lie. He's fresh out of prison and now on a deadly mission to hunt down and kill the Buffalo Bills kicker whose botched field goal he believes ruined his life....
85) Unlikely animals
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
“This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick)
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after...
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after...
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English
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Most people in Willow Hill think Darya is the prickliest of the Blok sisters. What they don't realize is that on the inside, Darya is soft and gooey from feeling everything, all the time. When Darya turns thirteen, the goo gets stickier -- and as Darya's Wishing Day approaches, all she wants is to forget the silly tradition ever existed. Except... she can't. Ten years ago, a wish made by Darya's mother splintered their family into pieces. Last year,...
88) The mercy rule
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
July 4, 2005. The Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. The family has gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings, an intrepid journalist and adventurer who was killed on that day in 2004, while on assignment in Iraq.
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Series
Bloodline trilogy (Jordyn Redwood) volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
569 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, Keelyn Blake's stepfather took her family hostage, raving about Lucent, a being who forced him to commit unspeakable acts. Even the best of the FBI's hostage negotiators failed to overcome the man's delusions. Only some of the family made it out alive. Now Lucent is back - and he's no hallucination. He has kidnapped Keelyn's niece, and although Keelyn is estranged from her half-sister, she feels compelled to save what little family...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A witty, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching epistolary novel about a dysfunctional family--led by a Jewish pig farmer in Israel--struggling to love and accept each other. Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colorful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an aging Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York -- to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy...
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Sisters of the Sword volume 3
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English
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Recovering from injuries sustained while escaping a fire, Kimi, Hana, and their mother and little brother take refuge in a monastery where their mother petitions the Shogun for help against evil Uncle Hidehira.
96) One last shot
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Language
English
Description
For as long as he can remember, Malcolm has never felt like he was good enough. Not for his parents, who have always seemed at odds with each other, with Malcolm caught in between. And especially not for his dad, whose competitive drive and love for sports Malcolm has never shared. That is, until Malcolm discovers miniature golf, the one sport he actually enjoys. Maybe it's the way in which every hole is a puzzle to be solved. Or the whimsy of the...
99) Killer Joe
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
82 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""One of our most valuable playwrights."--Time Out New York"A hideously funny tabloid noir. Letts' balance of irony and empathy continues to impress."-LA WeeklyA definitively dysfunctional family gives in to its basest instincts and is forced to face hidden truths in this twisted modern-day fairy tale by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of August: Osage County. Performed in fifteen countries and twelve languages since its 1998 stage debut, Killer...
100) Four corners
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Publisher
MacAdam/Cage Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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