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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Italiano
Description
Padre Padrone: Gavino is six when his father hauls him out of school to keep watch over sheep on a barren countryside, huddled in a makeshift hut night and day. The child is constantly abused by his father who treats him as his own father treated him. When the illiterate Gavino is commanded by his father to join the army, he learns a trade and a new concept of life, discovering the outside world and his own identity within it.
Night of the shooting...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
1143) Kisses and cuddles
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Follow a little penguin as he spends his day doing everything he loves--such as eating pancakes, playing with his toys, drinking hot chocolate, spotting rainbows, and more. But what does he love the most? Kisses and cuddles from his mama."
1145) The thud
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Noel's mother has a stroke, his world is turned upside down. Especially when a man comes, who tells Noel that he can't stay in the only home he's ever known. He has to move from his apartment and his city to some kind of care facility, in a town he's never heard of. For the first time, Noel is on his own. Who can he trust? Who can he love? There is a village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is largely populated and run by people with developmental...
1146) The search
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
With the help of his friends and his sister Azula, Prince Zuko goes on a quest to find out what happened to his missing mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Lag arrives in the town of Lament on a mission to save his hero, Gauche Suede. If he can get close enough, he will fire his Letter Bullet to restore Gauche's memories, but he has no way of knowing what awaits him inside the convent where his hero and the rebels of Reverse are hiding.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
Language
English
Description
Lag discovers that his long-lost hero Gauche Suede has become involved in an anti-government organization called Reverse and is now known as Marauder Noir, and while following Noir's trail to the icy northern town Blue Notes Blues, Lag and Niche make an important discovery.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
Language
English
Description
Lag, a Letter Bee who risks his life to deliver messages between the cities of the dark world of Amberground, struggles to compose a perfect letter that will convey his heart to his friend and long-lost hero Gauche Suede, hoping to help Gauche, who now goes by the name Noir the Marauder, recover his memories of his former self.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
Language
English
Description
Lag travels to Honey Waters in search of "the Man Who Could Not Become Spirit," hoping to gain information about the missing Gauche, and though the Man turns out to be a charlatan, his heart contains a clue that gives Lag hope.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen minutes after Bill Griffith's father died from a bicycle accident in 1972, his mother turned to him and said, "If I don't tell you this now, I'll never be able to tell you. I had a long and happy relationship with a man you knew slightly." Thus began Griffith's journey to reconstruct this hidden relationship between his mother and a deeply cultured jack-of-all-trades cartoonist and crime novelist. Invisible Ink unfolds like a detective story,...
Author
Series
Erec Rex volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Life is not easy for twelve-year old Erec Rex. His single mother can barely support her six adopted kids. And they've moved into an apartment so tiny that Erec sleeps with the washing machine. Worse, there is a strange force within Erec that is making him do odd things. His urge to obey these thoughts grows, until it becomes impossible to resist them. Then one morning, Erec's mother is missing. The force inside Erec commands him to find her, leading...
1155) Lilith: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
After a school shooting leaves her son with traumatic injuries, kindergarten teacher Elisabeth Ross commits her own act of shocking violence that captures the attention of the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Josiah was nineteen with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student's mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times. Josiah and Amanda hope to give a voice to those...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A full-color graphic novel adaptation in which thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.
1158) Assassinistas
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a kidnapping hits too close for home for former hit-woman Octavia, she is forced out of retirement and back into the bounty-hunting business. With her former partners unavailable, she recruits her son and his boyfriend to aid and abet her in a semester of murder-based work study, where she'll teach them everything she knows--if she can get them to put down the video games and stop making out long enough to concentrate on the mission.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A doting mother and her two beloved sons, one of whom she thinks is probably gay, go about their daily lives in this hilarious and heartwarming LGBTQIA+-friendly family comedy! The warm and loving Aoyama house continues to run like clockwork. Mama Tomoko keeps her sons happy and healthy while her husband's away, and eldest son Hiroki, for his part, jokes and dissembles his way around the not-so-little "secret" of his sexuality while figuring things...
1160) V.B. Rose: Volume 10
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Just when things were beginning to go well between Ageha and Arisaka, Arisaka's estranged mother, actress Ran Kashiwagi, shows up without any notice! When she learns about Ageha and Arisaka's relationship, Ran drags Ageha off for a shopping spree and a major heart-to-heart--and Ageha finally learns the story of how Ran fell in love with Aoi and gave birth to Arisaka. Ran seems ready to make amends but can Ageha help her reach out and reconnect to...
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