Howard, Linda
Summary: "Sarah Harper had loved Rome Matthews silently for years. She'd seen him marry her best friend, then lose his wife and sons in a tragic accident. Years later, when he turned to her for comfort and made her his wife, Sarah felt her world was at last complete. Only one thing could have made her happier: to have Rome's baby. But that was denied to her, because Rome dared not risk losing another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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Summary: Dad might not have a superhero mask or wear his pants outside his trousers, but his super snores can be heard a thousand miles away, he tells super jokes and can even make super-scary monsters go away at bedtime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDSummary: Matt LeBlanc plays an old-school guy confronting the modern challenges of parenting, marriage, and family. After hitting a rough patch with his construction business, Adam's wife, Andi, has proposed they start a house-flipping business together along with his brother, Don, and friend, Lowell. In the midst of all this, Adam also has to juggle his three children and deal with his sister-in-law,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANSummary: Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in Kelly Reichardt's breakout feature, a micro budget study of character and masculinity. As they drive from Portland into the woods in search of a secluded hot spring, expectant father Mark and nomadic Kurt make fumbling attempts to reconnect, butting up against the limits of their friendship and coming to grips with just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA OLDSummary: When a wealthy businessman learns of his daughter's swift engagement to a missionary, he embarks on a quest to keep her closer to home, but when his efforts go askew, he must reconsider what it means to be a strong father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STRSummary: Matt LeBlanc plays an old-school guy confronting the modern challenges of parenting, marriage, and family. After hitting a rough patch with his construction business, Adam's wife, Andi, has proposed they start a house-flipping business together along with his brother, Don, and friend, Lowell. In the midst of all this, Adam also has to juggle his three children and deal with his sister-in-law,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANSummary: Richard is a successful college professor who gives up a steady stream of one-night-stands and beautiful undergrads for fatherhood with much younger Kate. Three years later when Kate falls in love with someone else and moves out, she sends her sister, Olivia, to make sure Richard is properly caring for their son. Assuming Richard is back to his irresponsible playboy lifestyle, Olivia is shocked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoMeans, David
Summary: "A collection of harrowing and personal stories by the O. Henry Prize-winning author David Means."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEAMarkey, Judy.
Summary: A comedy on Charlie Feldman, 44, who wants a baby. First though, he must find a wife and that proves difficult because as a sportswriter he is always on the road following his Chicago hockey team. So Charlie engages the services of newspaper advice columnist Lacy Gazzar, a single mother with a teenage daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARAlcorn, Randy C.
Summary: Police officers Adam Mitchell and Nathan Hayes are willing to risk their lives and face any challenge, but the challenge they are most unprepared for is fatherhood, and when tragedy strikes close to home, they realize they must live up to God's expectations and draw closer to their families and their faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALCBinchy, Maeve.
Summary: When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Binchy 2011Dalglish, David.
Summary: "Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets. Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless--everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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Summary: Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife, and their unborn son. But then, something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2012
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Summary: Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find a child Harry never knew he had, and the responsibility neither should ever, ever be given.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DuSummary: Friends, Kurt and Mark, reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, a long series of carefree adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OLDAlcorn, Randy C.
Summary: Dedicated law enforcement officers Adam Mitchell and Nathan Hayes face a different kind of challenge when they become fathers, but as their children begin to drift farther away, and tragedy hits home, they must find a way to become closer to God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCJohncock, Benjamin
Summary: A U.S. Air Force test pilot passes up the chance to become an astronaut after his wife gets pregnant against all odds, and as fatherhood consumes him, a sudden tragedy puts his instincts as a father and as a pilot to the test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHAlger, Cristina.
Summary: "Charlie Goldwyn's life hasn't exactly gone according to plan. Widowerhood at thirty-three and twelve-hour workdays have left a gap in his relationship with his quirky five-year-old son, Caleb, whose obsession with natural disasters and penchant for girls' clothing have made him something of a loner at his preschool. The only thing Charlie has going for him is his job at a prestigious law firm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGAnt-Man
Summary: "This is the incredible story of an ex-con turned world-saving Super Hero. In Look Out for the Little Guy, Scott Lang shares with the world a bracingly honest account of his struggles and triumphs, from serving time to being a divorced dad to becoming Ant-Man and joining The Avengers. These are stories of epic battles won and lost, as this everyman turned Super Hero finally tells all--from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023
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Backman, Fredrik
Summary: It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Backman 2017Lerner, Ben.
Summary: "A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERSummary: In the sixth series, the doctor tackles fatherhood and his complicated relationship with local teacher Louisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Do 6Summary: Inspired by Jim Gaffigan's real life, It explores one man's struggle to find balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy and an insatiable appetite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016