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1) Three peaks
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
German Aaron has found the woman of his life in his French girlfriend Lea, but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his American father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Lea wrestles with conflicting loyalties to her son and her lover. When Tristan disappears into the mountains, it's unclear who is in the most...
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver,...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The essential parenting guide for battling gender norms, bringing down 'man up' culture, and helping your sons realize their potential"--Book jacket flap.
"If you are the parent of a boy ... this is the book you need ... insightful, enlightened, practical." 'Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Boys & Sex From the dad who created the viral tweet supporting his son wearing nail polish, this essential parenting guide shares 36 parenting...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life"--
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring...
5) He got game
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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.
6) Three Peaks
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fatherhood, suspicion and resentment are a combustible formula in this elegant, unnerving domestic thriller. Aaron (Alexander Fehling) has found the woman of his life in his girlfriend Lea (Bérénice Bejo) but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Lea wrestles with...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Aaron, a disgraced rabbi turned Wall Street banker, and Amelia, his journalist girlfriend, live with their newborn in Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City. The infusion of upwardly mobile strivers into Bed-Stuy's historic brownstones belies the tension simmering on the streets below. But after a cop shoots a boy in a nearby park, a riot erupts--with Aaron and his family at its center. Over the course...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John Steinbeck adapted three of his own classic short stories to create a powerful family portrait. Young Tom is unable to find the love and guidance he needs from his parents. For friendship and support, Tom turns to the easy-going hired hand, Billy Buck. In an attempt to become closer to his son, Tom's father gives him a red pony to raise. As the horse becomes the focus of Tom's life, it ultimately drives the family further apart as Tom turns to...
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Series
Eliza Hamilton mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1804. America’s beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton’s eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father’s duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead. Eliza searches for ways to clear her son’s name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband’s papers, she finds...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city's wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne's teenage son,...
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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"After their teenage son is killed in a car crash, Paul and Anne move to the New England countryside to try to start a new life. But the grieving couple unknowingly becomes the prey of a family of vengeful spirits that reside in their new home, and before long they discover that the seemingly peaceful town is hiding a terrifyingly dark secret. Now they must find a way to overcome their sorrow and fight back against both the living and dead as the...
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In post-American Revolution New York City, Theodosia Burr, a scholar with the skills of a socialite, is all about charming the right people on behalf of her father--Senator Aaron Burr, who is determined to win the office of president in the pivotal election of 1800. Meanwhile, Philip Hamilton, the rakish son of Alexander Hamilton, is all about being charming on behalf of his libido. When the two first meet, it seems the ongoing feud between their...
15) XX
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Watch four deadly tales directed by four killer women in this horror anthology.
The Box: After peering into a shiny red gift box on a commuter train, seven-year-old Danny Jacobs inexplicably stops eating. When his father and sister also begin to waste away, Danny's mother Susan struggles to make the connection between herself, her dying family, and the mysterious box before it's too late.
The Birthday Party: A harried housewife tries to keep her...
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Language
English
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"Published to coincide with the release of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone's major film of Savages from Universal Pictures in September 2012--starring John Travolta, Blake Lively, Benecio Del Toro, Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, and Salma Hayek--this is the much-anticipated prequel to Don Winslow's acclaimed New York Times bestseller.In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends...
17) Warsaw requiem
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
It's May 1939, Aaron Lubetkin, esteemed rabbi of Muranow, is released from a Warsaw prison. But he and his family--beautiful Etta, daughter Rachel, and sons David, Samuel, and baby Yacov--remain targets of Hitler's sinister plot. In the free city of Danzig, Lucy Strasburg flees in terror from SS officer Wolf von Fritschauer. If he finds her, the consequences for Lucy and her newborn will be dire. Yet each day the web around her tightens. Imprisoned...
18) In between songs
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the remote Northwestern Territory of Australia, the Galpu clan, an Aboriginal family led by famed didjeridu craftsman and player, Djalu Gurruwiwi, struggles to maintain their ancestral traditions at the face of modern pressures. When Djalu's son displays little interest in the clan's legacy and the effects of nearby Rio Tinto bauxite mine begin to take its toll, he and the clan elders must devise a strategy to preserve their cultural identity,...
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Publisher
Books4pocket
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
¿Y si pudieras borrar de tu mente los recuerdos que te impiden ser feliz? El Bronx, Nueva York, en un futuro no muy lejano... Aaron Soto, de dieciséis años, lucha por encontrar la felicidad a pesar de las cicatrices que arrastra, tanto físicas como emocionales: el suicidio de su padre, su propio intento fallido de abandonar este mundo, una vida de necesidades y, para colmo, la inquietante atracción que siente por Thomas, su nuevo y ambiguo amigo......
20) Betrayal
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Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family... and Kerrigan's only...
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