Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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-- Une vie fantastique2016., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Call No: DVD Fic Captain F Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
![Captain Fantastic [DVD] (2016). Directed by Matt Ross](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Captain Fantastic [DVD] (2016). Directed by Matt Ross")
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-- Night woodsc2011., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Fra Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insight into human nature that have made him one of the most beloved and celebrated authors in the world. Now, with his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister<U+2019>s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the rich Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the small community around her. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways."--Publisher.
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By Ward, Jesmync2011., Adult, Bloomsbury USA Call No: BLK Fic War Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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2011., Adult, Bloomsbury Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
![Salvage the Bones [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT83567.JPG "Salvage the Bones [eBook] : a novel")
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c2010., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Urq Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, this novel weaves elements from the 19th-century past, in Ireland and Ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary story of events in the lives of the members of one family that come to alter their futures irrevocably. There are ancestral lighthouse-keepers, seasonal Mexican workers; the migratory patterns of the Monarch butterfly; the tragedy of a young woman's death during a tour of duty in Afghanistan; three different love stories. All the events reveal the sometimes difficult path to understanding and forgiveness."--Publisher.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2017., Adult, Scribner Call No: BLK Fic War Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise."--From publisher.
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2014., Random House Audio Call No: CD Fic Smi Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the bookworm who's not afraid to be different; and Claire, who earns the highest place in her father's heart.
![Some luck [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT77280.JPG "Some luck [CD]")
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2016., Freight Books Call No: SC Fic Gor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 21 of 22 children in a rural village die in a disaster. By chance, the 'wrong' child, Dog Evans, lives. Crippled with survivor's guilt, his parents abandon Dog to a feral, marginal life, shunned by those left behind, for whom his presence is a daily reminder of unbearable loss. In The Wrong Child, author Barry Gornell's forensic gaze dissects the fractured lives of the bereaved, frozen the day their children died. Deborah Cutter, rejected by husband John, numbs her pain with alcohol and sex. Local postman, Nugget, clings to the hope the Evans house contains valuable secrets. Parish priest, Father Wittin, is an embarrassing irrelevance. As grief burns to rage, the villagers' insatiable desire for catharsis and sacrifice becomes unstoppable. The master of 'rural noir', Gornell has created a mesmerising, heart breaking examination of small town life with a remarkable note of hope within the darkness.
