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5461) Signal to noise
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love... Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father's funeral, reviving memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened...
5462) Foster families
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"On any single day, there are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States. Foster parents open their homes to these children and take care of them. Together, they become a foster family. This book presents a real-world look at how American families are changing and helps teen readers gain an understanding of what it is like to be part of a foster family."--Amazon.com.
5463) Dusty boots
Author
Publisher
Shalako Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Mayfield had talked his younger brother, Rob, into selling the family farm after their mother died, with a promise they would leave Texas. He said they were going to New Orleans and enjoy the good life. He failed to mention that their trip involved a detour to a place called Cool Water, where he planned to collect a large sum of money he felt he had been cheated out of...even if he had to take it at gun-point. It was a journey they might not...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations of the Zelner family must grapple with their place in its shadow . . . and within their own family. In 1942, young mother Sylvia is desperate to escape her stifling marriage, especially when it means co-running Zelner's general...
Author
Series
Never miss a sunset pioneer family volume 1-4
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A winter's promise: Emmas struggles to take care of her family and the stock while her husband is away working in a logging camp during the winter months.
All things heal in time: Emma's constant struggle to keep her family fed and thriving in their rural northern Wisconsin community is complicated when the death of her daughter Emmie leaves her to raise her infant granddaughter.
Best of intentions: Raising her grandaughter in the 1940's becomes...
5466) The Bluebonnet battle
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive--until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda's return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history. And just when they thought it couldn't get more...
5467) The vanishing deep
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Tempe brings her dead sister back to life for twenty-four hours in hopes of unraveling the truth behind their parents' death"--
5468) Sharp objects
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
5471) We chose you
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Worried about a school assignment on family because he was adopted, Calvin asks his parents about being chosen and learns that God creates all families, but not always in the same way.
5472) The peach rebellion
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this historical tale of friendship, family, and the power of sisterhood, three very different girls from varying social stratums find common ground as they each make a promise to not just accept things as they are anymore.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Popular speaker, author, and grandparent of 21 grandchildren inspires and equips readers to plan and host a meaningful camp for their grandchildren as well as providing ideas for other family gatherings"--
Author
Series
Valeron volume 8
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Western
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Some things grab a man's attention... like being shot at! Jared Valeron learns that an unknown gunman has tarnished the family reputation by killing a man while impersonating his cousin Wyatt. In trying to track down the culprit, Jared is drawn into an odd mystery at a gold-mining town. Solving the riddle of the killer's target requires discovering a motive for the murder. When his investigative efforts propel him deep into a hole, only his cousins...
5476) Alf: Season two
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In September 1986, a loveable alien named Alf crashed his spaceship into the home of the unsuspecting Tanner family. For the next four years, Alf elusively avoided houseguests, chased the cat, ate everything in sight, but the Tanners always loved Alf.
5477) A team stays together!
Author
Series
Ready-to-read volume level 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
While the Dungy family is getting snacks at halftime during brother Eric's football game, Jordan gets separated from his parents and other siblings.
5478) Our class is a family
Author
Publisher
[Shannon Olsen]
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Family isn't always your relatives. It's the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what."--
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Season five finds the Gallaghers dealing with both the upside and downside of personal and urban renewal as Frank, Fiona, Lip and their family and friends band together to fight the invading hipster hordes and real estate speculators in their beloved South Side. But, as the neighborhood changes, the Gallaghers begin to reconcile their chaotic past in the hopes of building a better future.
