Krosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Between his schizophrenic mother, drunken father, dimwitted brother, and his goody-goody best friend, it's amazing that Christopher Titus is alive, let alone engaged to a "normal" girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TITSummary: Chronicling the hilarious highs and devastating lows of his tumultuous life, this blackly humorous drama follows Patrick from his childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and neglectful mother, to the peak of his heroin addiction, and his attempts to stay sober and support his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PATFisher, Tarryn
Summary: Juno was wrong about the Crouch family. She thought that they had the perfect life. But after overhearing a chilling conversation, she knows this could be her chance to make a few things right.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FISSummary: Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Domby 2006Summary: Rich Hill, Missouri (population 1,393) could be any of the countless small towns that blanket America's heartland. But to teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey, it's home. They are like millions of other boys coming of age the world over, but face unfortunate circumstances an imprisoned mother, isolation, instability, and parental unemployment. Adolescence can be a day-to-day struggle just to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Passion River] 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RIC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RIC
Dessen, Sarah.
Summary: Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DESSummary: 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
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWEWalsh, M. O. (Milton O'Neal)
Summary: A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WALSummary: Helen, Jake and Natalie are thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother announces her love for a new man. Their suspicion of the newcomer triggers events in the siblings' own love lives, which begin to spiral out of control. Can the family pull together, or will old rifts and new conflicts push them apart, even to the point of violence?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FLESummary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOGClowes, Daniel
Summary: Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story--actually, stories--of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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Summary: When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GRISummary: With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CIEBerg, Elizabeth
Summary: "Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur's class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses, Arthur's older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys father, a veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Summary: "This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. A National Book Award Finalist! In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KORVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing him, Benny is uneasy about how he'll be remembered. Can he find a way to make amends?"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANMuñoz Ledo, Norma
Summary: Susi tiene 16 años, una mejor amiga, un primer amor, un papá ausente, una mamá con quien pelea, un aspirante a padrastro al que odia, una abuela amorosa y cuatro mascotas a quienes considera sus hijos. Un día, la vida de Susi da un vuelco inesperado: su madre sufre un accidente y el diagnóstico del médico {u2014}fractura hendida de cráneo{u2014} se traduce como ?Por el momento, está en coma?....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH MUNSummary: Season Four finds the Gallaghers braving another brutal Chicago winter and waiting on the medical fate of their permanently pickled patriarch Frank. With oldest daughter Fiona in a stable job and relationship, and newly graduated Lip enrolled in college, it seems like the Gallaghers might finally have a shot at the middle class American dream. But when you're down and out, moving up isn't so easy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHACheng, Jack
Summary: 11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan, named for his hero, the real-life astronomer. All he wants is to launch his golden iPod into space the way Carl Sagan (the man, not the dog) launched his Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. From Colorado to New Mexico, Las Vegas to L.A., Alex records a journey on his iPod to show other...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2017
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Summary: Raymie Clarke decides that if she can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who left town two days ago with a dental hygienist, will see Raymie's picture in the paper and (maybe) come home. To win, not only does Raymie have to do good deeds and learn how to twirl a baton; she also has to contend with the wispy, frequently fainting Louisiana Elefante, who has a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DICSummary: Season two explodes into action with the brash Cody bad boys in the midst of a high-adrenaline heist. Their haul is a dud, and the frustrated brothers rebel against their all controlling mother, Smurf, as well as each other. An external threat from Smurf's past adds to the chaos, jeopardizing her gift, and ominous responsibility.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANIAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: After escaping the trauma of the Umbrella Lady's home, thirteen-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is determined to find the father who abandoned her all those years ago. But when she finds him in a nearby town, Saffron is shocked to discover that he has married a woman he clearly had been involved with before her mother's death. Worse, her father insists Saffron pretend to be his niece so he can...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021