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1) Sunset Beach
Author
Language
English
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Description
Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried -- to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A charming tropical tale guaranteed to heat your holidays. Three quirky sisters chase their estranged dad down to his beachside pad in the Caribbean and enjoy a little fun in the sun. But why did he disappear to the islands? Only Joanna knows for sure, and she's sworn to secrecy. Love, laughter, and songs by Cyrus make this a Christmas remember.
3) Body & soul
Author
Series
Frank Elder mystery volume 4
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Frank Elder struggles to protect his estranged daughter and prove her innocence after her breakup with a controversial artist ends in murder.
The breakdown of Katherine Elder's relationship with artist Anthony Winter, a controversial painter of nudes, has sent her into a self-destructive tailspin. Now she's accused of his murder, and turns to her father, retired policeman Frank Elder. As he struggles to protect Katherine and prove her innocence,...
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ava Kirilova has reached the very top of her profession. After years and years of hard graft, pain and sacrifice as part of the London Russian Ballet Company, allowing nothing else to distract her, she is finally the poster girl for Swan Lake. Even Mr K - her father, and the intense, terrifying director of the company - can find no fault. Ava has pushed herself ahead of countless other talented, hardworking girls, and they are all watching her now....
5) The Munsters
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the director of Halloween, The Devil's Reject, and House of 1000 Corpses comes a different kind of love story. The one-of-a-kind master storyteller, Rob Zombie, brings the bizarre romantic comedy of the ages home, as The Munsters make their triumphant return to the screen in this all-new feature film.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
7) Firestarter
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns eleven, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time things got ugly. As Simone and Miles start going...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Aisha's fisherman father goes missing, she takes to the sea on a skeleton boat to rescue him. Guided by a talking scholar's cat, who sparks her interest in the mysterious House of Rust, she encounters three monsters hidden beneath the waves. All Aisha wants is for things to return to normal. But a showdown with the father of all sharks looms, and at home, things only grow stranger"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From the uproariously unrestrained mind of comedian Louis C.K. comes the year's most outrageously original comedy! As a newly divorced, well-meaning father raising two young daughters, Louie struggles to cope with his strenuous mid-life shake-up, and his stand-up comedy provides a gleefully warped reflection of his hectic, everyday reality. There are disastrous first dates, indecent proposals, high school bullies, booze-addled play dates-and more....
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Silver bells. When an ambitious businessman gets in a scuffle with a ref at his son's basketball game, he is suspended from his job and sentenced to community service, manning a red kettle and ringing bells for the Salvation Army for the rest of the Christmas season. At first he finds this humiliating, and in his self-pity determines to be the world's worst bell ringer. But as he encounters the people behind the kettle, his life, and especially his...