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Ernman, Malena

Summary: "When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ERN

Lapena, Shari

Summary: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAP

Fox, Helena

Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven. When he suddenly disappears, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOX

Flašar, Milena Michiko

Summary: "Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You. Mr Katō-a curmudgeon and recent retiree-finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a dog (which his wife won't allow). During one of these walks, he is approached by a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge/Tor Publishing Group 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLA

Martin, Alexa

Summary: "Love isn't always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. As a self-proclaimed book hater and a firm believer that the movie is always better, Drew Young didn't anticipate inheriting her grandma's bookstore, The Book Nook. She's in way over her head even before the shop's resident book club, comprising six of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Summary: In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable causes, and the ice has been melting every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to their daughter Aga, who left the icy tundra long ago due to a family feud. When...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGA

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Nearly 10 years after the original series ended, Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life is here. Lorelai still runs the Dragonfly Inn, and now lives with Luke. Her daughter, Rory, now 32, juggles career complications and ex-boyfriends, while matriarch Emily adjusts to widowed life. In four memorable chapters studded with drop-ins by quirky Stars Hollow friends, the Gilmores confront long-standing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GIL

Summary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWE

Summary: The Lowry family is in transition. They have recently moved from the city to a small town and are having a hard time adjusting. Just when their spirits need lifting, they find themselves "adopted" by a stray golden retriever named Pilot. Pilot is not only very clever and very lovable, she's also very pregnant. Although the Lowry's give the puppies up for adoption, Pilot is determined to get...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RET

Mendoza, Jessica

Summary: ESPN baseball analyst and two-time Olympic medalist Jessica Mendoza teams up with her sister Alana Mendoza Dusan in this sweet and hilarious middle-grade novel that celebrates teamwork, family, and softball! This is going to be twelve-year-old Sophia Maria Garcia's best year ever: she's going out for the same softball team on which her high-school softball star sister played at her age, and she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MEN

Summary: The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ho

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HOT

Summary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRA

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