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2181) Talk to me
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"From New Yorker writer and Thurber Prize-winning author of Truth in Advertising comes a wry yet tenderhearted father-daughter story that looks at family, marriage, and fame through the lens of a popular TV anchor's public fall from grace" --
Network TV anchor Ted Grayson has reported time and time on the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. A profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera; his reputation...
2182) My dad, John McCain
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This picture book biography, written with great love and insight by his oldest daughter, writer Meghan McCain, shows us the public John McCain and the personal John McCain in a way we've never seen before--making this American hero come to life before young eyes."
2183) The pursuit of happyness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2010, 1999
Description
Cameron falls for the most beautiful girl in school. However, she is forbidden to date until the most hated girl in school, her ill-tempered older sister, goes out too. Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad-boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Craig McNamara came of age during the political tumult and upheaval of the late '60s. While he would grow up to take part in antiwar demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's secretary of defense and was the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate portrait of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story--it...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in Ohio, she only gets to see her father Robert for a few precious weeks a year when she visits Greenwich Village, where he lives in an enchanting apartment...
2187) Tacos
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When Baby Bear goes on a business trip with Poppa Bear, he worries about being far away from home--from Mama, from his comfy bed, from his yummy food. When Poppa suggests trying tacos for the first time, Baby Bear isn't sure he'll like them. Will he be brave enough to try something new?"--
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After her father's involvement in a public scandal, Daisy must navigate the sale of the family home, her sister's inconvenient crush, and her best friend writing an expose, in a modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic Sense and Sensibility.
When it is revealed that her esteemed father had been involved in a public scandal before his untimely death, Daisy Richardson's family must sell the family home in Georgetown they can no longer afford-- but...
2189) The comebacks
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Lambeau Fields is an out-of-luck coach trying to lead a ragtag team of fumbling footballers to victory before his long-suffering wife leaves him and his sexy gymnast daughter gets herself bent out of shape.
2190) The princess stallion
Publisher
[Distributed by] Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Following the death of her mother, Sarah is sent to live with her estranged father. While riding her horse in the mountains she meets an old hermit who protects the animals of the mountain, including a mysterious stallion. When poachers threaten the animals, the hermit, Sarah, and her father team up to protect the animals from the poachers.
2191) I almost died. Again
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1895 Michigan, Stan, eleven, will do almost anything to help his mother financially, even babysitting, but his long-lost father shows up and proves to be a big disappointment.
2192) The wildest sun: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York's Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
"When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never...
2193) A valley dream
Author
Series
Backshaw Moss saga volume 1
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a kind relative leaves her a house in the village of Backshaw Moss, Thomas tries to take it from her, but she defies him and grasps this chance of a new start in Lancashire. It is not going to be easy, though. The house is on the edge of a slum and in a state of disrepair, let out as flats. As kind people help her find her feet, however, her confidence...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Monty is a blue-collar mechanic who enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney while trying to gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. As these two people try to overcome their different backgrounds, they find love. Monty struggles to protect his children from abuse and...
Author
Series
Middle school misadventures volume Book 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"In order to avoid extra work, middle schooler Newell agrees to participate in a school-wide talent show--without a talent"--
2197) My dad is awesome
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Everyone loves Bandit, but especially Bluey and Bingo! He's always making up funny games, playing Daddy Robot, and taking them on exciting adventures. This is the perfect book to celebrate your dad on Father's Day, or any day, and share what makes him awesome!
2198) Dads can do it all!
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Simple, rhyming text, shows all the amazing things fathers can do.
"Celebrate dads and all the amazing things they do with this perfect gift for Father’s Day—complete with a bookplate for personalization! This year, celebrate Dad with this adorable board book young readers can personally inscribe and dedicate to their dad: the superhero! Beautiful illustrations and inspiring, rhyming verses make this the perfect gift for dads and for...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Two years after the death of his mother, Ewan's father was swept away by a magical cloud. Now Ewan lives with his little sister, Flora, his Grumple and his mischievous cat, Kipper. But something about his father's disappearance has never felt right to Ewan. He is certain his father wouldn't leave willingly. When he meets Mr. So-and-So, the owner of the mysterious Notion Shop, he is inspired to take destiny into his own hands. With his grandfather's...
2200) Pocahontas
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting with a native is not at all what he expects. Chief Powhatan's...
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