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1941) Sarah, Plain & Tall
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999, c1990
Description
An early twentieth-century Kansas family begins a new life with the arrival of Sarah, a mail-order bride; struggles through a drought; and copes with the return of Jacob's estranged father.
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Newly-divorced psychiatrist Frasier Crane finds himself host of his own call-in radio advice show. When he's not dealing with the problems of his troubled listeners, he's embroiled in skirmishes at home with his retired police detective father, his father's physical therapist, and his younger brother and rival, Niles.
1943) He got game
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A prisoner is granted a furlough in hopes of persuading his estranged son, the country's top high school basketball player, to attend the governor's alma mater.
1945) Warrior
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns home and enlists his father, a recovering alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. Tommy's estranged brother Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to provide for his family as a public school teacher, also enters the competition. Set on a collision course with each other, the two brothers must finally confront...
1946) Bloodworth
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
After a forty year absence, E.F. Bloodworth re-enters the lives of the family members he abandoned, upsetting his wife and three grown sons, but forging a new, close relationship with the grandson he never knew.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Demolition Man: When master villain Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) emerges from decades in CryoPrison, he finds a serene society of 2032 ready for the taking. To stop him, officials turn to a cop (Sylvester Stallone) doing time in Cryo because of an earlier run-in with Phoenix. And when he thaws out, the action heats up! Sandra Bullock co-stars in Demolition Man (Side A), "the most entertaining futuristic action film since the original Terminator".
Stallone...
1948) Storm boy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Ten-year-old Mike (Storm Boy) lives with his recluse father on South Australia's lonely and beautiful coast. Here his free spirit roams with his pet pelican Mr. Percival and his secret Aboriginal friend Fingerbone Bill. He knows no other world. Suddenly there are intruders, the local school teacher who wants him to take lessons, a resentful wildlife ranger, duck shooters ... Mike is forced to choose between a life of continued isolation and the challenges...
1949) Blue exorcist: v. 10
Author
Series
Blue exorcist volume 10
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
With the defeat of the Impure King, the Exwires have returned to their routine lives back at True Cross Academy - but the routine doesn't last for long! Halfway around the world, a strange encounter in the desert is the harbinger of evil things to come. An upturn in supernatural incidents at the academy involves Rin and his friends, but their seemingly simple tasks are about to draw them into a far larger conspiracy. Powerful forces have begun to...
1950) Home from the hill
Pub. Date
[2007], c1959
Description
Southern drama involving a wealthy landowner's conflicts with his wife and two sons, one of which is illegitimate.
1951) The book of Manning
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"A father-and-son story written into the pages of football folklore, it can be argued that no family has had more influence on a sport than the Mannings."--From container.
1952) A Christmas story
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Elf: "Once upon a Christmas Eve, an orphan baby crawled into Santa's bag of gifts and was taken to the North Pole. Raised by Papa Elf, Buddy comes to realize he doesn't fit in with the other elves. Determined to find a place where he belongs, Buddy searches for his real dad -- in New York City! In the Big Apple, Buddy finds out why his dad is on the naughty list! But most importantly, he sees that the world is seriously lacking in Christmas spirit,...
1953) Joe
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A hard-living ex-con is the unlikeliest of role models. But when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The world hangs in the balance as Asuka fights to survive an onslaught of Evas determined to destory her. Shinji rushes to help, but he may be too late. Deep inside the NERV command center, Dr. Ikari is about to set in motion the last act of the Instrumentality Project. Everything has gone according to Ikari's plans so far, but even he cannot foresee the role Shinji will play in determining the future!
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
"The ninja adventures continue with Naruto's son, Boruto! Naruto was a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He achieved his dream to become the greatest ninja in his village, and now his face sits atop the Hokage monument. But this is not his story... A new generation of ninja is ready to take the stage, led by Naruto's own son, Boruto!... Though burdened by a traumatic past, Kawaki slowly begins to open up to Boruto and his friends....
1956) Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When an advanced canine and his adopted son use their time traveling WABAC machine, events in history spiral out of control to disastrous and comical results. It's up to this most unexpected of father-son teams to somehow put things back on track before the space-time continuum is irreparably destroyed.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Boruto meets a mysterious boy names Kawaki who has the same Karma mark. Who is this boy and what is the true nature of the cursed power that Boruto has been given? And when Kara members show up to take back Kawaki, will Boruto and his allies flee or fight?!" -- Back cover.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
1960) Sleepless
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs thrives in the high-stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground of Las Vegas. But when a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.