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4641) The leading edge of now
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes I think Dad knew what happened to me that Labor Day weekend, and that was why he had a heart attack - it literally broke his heart. Just when Grace is beginning to get used to being an orphan, her estranged uncle suddenly comes forward to claim her. That might be okay if he'd spoken to her even once since her father died. Or if moving in with Uncle Rusty didn't mean returning to New Harbor. Grace spent the best summers of her life in New...
4642) Cold summer
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Unable to control his ability to travel through time, Kale must deal with the effects of his time serving as a soldier in World War II and his desire to have a normal relationship with his father and Harper, the girl who used to live next door.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xx, 324 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory--between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death. ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood, her father, Marco Antonio, was an erratic and elusive presence. A self-taught genius at fixing, creating, and conjuring things--and capable of transforming himself into a shaman, dreamcaster,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A piercing and luminescent catalogue of a father's grief, parsing the shapes and distances of profound loss into a way forward for a family in crisis"--
"A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away. On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stephane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stephane huddled in a tent with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Memoir from celebrated familyman blogger Jason Good delves into the magic, fails, and meaning of fatherhood. He shares the story of his father, a charismatic, communicative, and affectionate man who taught him how to live and how to be a dad to his own two young sons. The moment Jason was told he would lose his father to cancer, and the year that followed, inspired him to reflect on how an imperfect father can be perfection in all the ways that matter...
4646) A counterfeit suitor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is every mama's dearest wish that her daughter marries well. But how to ensure that a seemingly earnest suitor is not merely a fortune hunter? Rosalind is involved in just such a case, discreetly investigating a client's prospective son-in-law, when she is drawn into another predicament shockingly close to home. Rosalind's estranged father, Sir Reginald Thorne--a drunkard and forger--has fallen into the hands of the vicious scoundrel Russell...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"After losing her mother very early in life, Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was raised by her loving father. He gave her a scientific education, which was highly unusual for women and girls in the early 19th century. Fascinated with the plant life around her, Anna became a botanist. She recorded all her findings in detailed illustrations and engravings, until the invention of cyanotype photography in 1842. Anna used this new technology in order to catalogue...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A group portrait of America's first four presidents from Virginia focuses on a series of key historical episodes that illustrate how the myriad leadership roles of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe promoted transcendental, if contradictory, national views about freedom and equality.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"W. J. T. Mitchell's son Gabriel was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen and died by suicide at the age of 38, leaping from his apartment high in Chicago's Marina City towers. Gabe left behind a remarkable archive of creative work and a father determined to learn from, and bear witness to, Gabe's journey. What is a father to do when caught between his skepticism about psychiatry and the reality of a son suffering from mental illness?...
4650) Edge of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Seth is a teenage deckhand on his father's boat when he and his dog are washed overboard and swept to one of Alaska's small islands where they struggle for months to survive off land and sea, while his desperate father endures his own emotional journey and never gives up hope.
4651) Blood of Wonderland
Author
Series
Queen of Hearts volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dinah has been exiled from Wonderland. The vicious father she always feared has framed her for the brutal murder of her brother and turned the kingdom against her. Now hiding in the lush and mysterious Twisted Wood with only her war steed at her side, Dinah is faced with a choice -- to leave Wonderland forever, or stay and fight her father for the throne. When a chance encounter with one of her father's long-lost enemies brings Dinah more allies than...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (121 min.; 78 min.; 121 min.; 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cats: The Jellicle Cats gather in their junkyard, preparing for the Jellicle Ball, for this is the night when patriarch Old Deuteronomy will choose a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heavyside Layer. There are stories, songs, and dances from Victoria the White Cat, Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Grizabella, Jemima, Gus the Theatre Cat, Jellylorum, Skimbleshanks, Macavity, Demeter and Bombalurina, Demeter, Alonzo, Mr. Mistoffelees, and others....
4654) Road tripped
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
4655) Heroes of the old West
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 21 hrs., 48 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blue steel: It's up to John Carruthers to save the little town of Yucca City from the evil extremes of the 'Polka Dot Bandit," and win the heart of the beautiful Betty Mason.
Santa Fe Trail: Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern calvaryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas...
4656) 10 movie adventure pack
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (886 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
River's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
152 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this anthology of seven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he calls 'necessary protest.' Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is Powell's reflection on witnessing the collapse of discourse in real time while drawing the award-winning trilogy March, written by Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, this generation's preeminent historical account of nonviolent...
4659) Pocahontas
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
[DVD only] 1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color. ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Pocahontas befriends John Smith, an English colonists in 17th-century Virgina, both find their lives going in directions they never anticipated.
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