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2161) The Fun family
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beloved cartoonist Robert Fun has earned a devoted following for his circular daily comic strip, celebrating the wholesome American family by drawing inspiration from his real home life ... but the Fun Family bears some dark secrets. As their idyllic world collapses and the kids are forced to pick up the pieces, will their family circle become a broken mirror, or a portal to a nightmare world? In his debut graphic novel, Benjamin Frisch presents a...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Brunetti is a police inspector with a keen mind, razor-sharp wit and a touch of melancholy. In fact, his is probably the most melacholic expression in all of Venice. He strives to bring criminals to justice, but experience has taught him that countless things work against that, human frailty, corruption and police incompetence being chief among them. It may be a Sisyphean task but the impossibility galvanizes his resolve to tackle head-on the ominous...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane Maraia. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
2164) Painting the rainbow
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
During Holly and Ivy's annual month-long visit to the family's New Hampshire lake house in 1965, the distance that seems to be growing between the thirteen-year-old cousins fades when they accidentally uncover hints of a family secret dating back to World War II.
2165) The way the light bends
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Although best friends as children, Linc and her adopted sister have drifted apart as Holly excels at school, sports, and pleasing their mother, while Linc struggles academically and yearns to be a photographer.
2166) Run
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.
2167) The things we cannot say
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny ... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border,...
2168) Pandora's legacy
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When siblings Charlie, Janet, and Trevor accidentally break an old jar hidden in the woods, they release a cadre of monsters and must find a way to recapture them and uncover the truth about their family's history.
2169) Two brothers
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother, Zana, stirs the troubled waters between them even more. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys, Yaqub, "the good son," is sent from his home in Brazil to live with relatives in Lebanon, only to return five years later as a virtual stranger to the parents who bore him, his tensions...
2170) Forget my name
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When the last vestiges of his childhood are taken from him, Zerocalcare discovers unsuspected se-crets about his family. Torn between the soothing numbness of the innocence of youth and the im-possibility to elude society's ever expanding control over people's lives, he'll have to understand where he really comes from, before he understands where he is going."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Last days of Patton: Docu-drama of General Patton's life after the car crash that leaves him with life threatening injuries. Patton reflects on his life through flashbacks.
Jane Eyre: An orphaned governess who begins to love her married employer in 19th century England.
2173) Eden in winte
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin.
2174) Monstress: 6,The vow
Author
Series
Monstress volume 6
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"War has engulfed the Known World, and Maika Halfwolf is at its epicenter. As she and her friends grapple with the consequences of their actions, long-buried secrets and long-awaited reunions threaten to change everything. Join Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda in the newest volume of this Eisner, Hugo, Harvey, and British Fantasy Award-winning series. Plus, learn about the happier childhood days of Kippa and Maika in Monstress: Talk-Stories 1 and 2!"...
2176) Monstress: 7,Devourer
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Humans and Arcanics are at war once again, but battles of the heart and soul are the most dangerous of all. Caught in the calculating grip of the Dusk Court, Maika and Zinn uncover painful secrets of the past while Tuya fights to preserve her future—and young Kippa might be the Known World’s only hope for the present. " -- Publisher's website.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 11
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, thought they could return to their regular lives when they found the 39 Clues that safeguard their family's great power. But they were wrong. Powerful enemies -- the Vespers -- have been waiting in the shadows. And they'll stop at nothing to grab the Clues. Four powerhouse authors unite to expose the 500-year old secret struggle between the Cahills and the Vespers. The Vespers are rising ......
2178) Good girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves, and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.
2179) From time to time
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
2180) Beautiful creatures
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD].
Language
English
Description
When newcomer Lena arrives in the small town of Gatlin she quickly captures the attention of Ethan, who only wants to escape what he views as a boring and dead end town. He quickly gets more than he bargained for. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town.
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