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Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian...
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2020.
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Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.
3) Taft
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"John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft--Fay and Carl's dead father--and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take...
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2023.
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English
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New parents Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage look forward to introducing Sebastian’s father to his granddaughter, but instead find themselves investigating an attempt on his life... Yorkshire, England. August 1832. Relations between Sebastian Gage and his father have never been easy, especially since the discovery that Lord Gage has been concealing the existence of an illegitimate son. But when Lord Gage is nearly fatally attacked on a journey...
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A sinister adversary has Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare in his crosshairs. Unfortunately, the number one player on their team, Kate's father, is on the run after being betrayed by an old friend. The trio must watch their backs to rid the world of their two greatest foes, and clear their names.
6) No fair!
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A big-hearted story about fairness and father-son love by the author-illustrator of No Pants! Pablo and his dad are ready for a fun day together at the farmer’s market–what’s better than a bike ride, doughnuts, and hot apple cider? But Pablo's dad says that everything Pablo picks out is too big for him. It’s just no fair! What if he was in charge and his dad was the kid, Pablo wonders. And his dad stops to think about it, too. This light-hearted...
7) Humor me
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A once-acclaimed New York playwright, Nate is struggling to finish a play when his wife leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, Bob, in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical and agrees to help, but quickly realizes it will not be easy to get these quirky women to cooperate.
8) Being Frank
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A regular father's family life is turned upside down when his son learns he has another family.
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Marvel Studios
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[2021]
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English
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Shang-Chi is forced to confront the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization controlled by his father, a man who gained immortality and a desire for unlimited power when he acquired an ancient artifact centuries before.
10) Your corner dark
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Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Frankie Green yearns to leave Jamaica and study in the United States, but when his father is shot he is forced to give up his scholarship and join his uncle Joe's gang.
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Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Lawrence the fox accompanies his father into the forest to collect something to take to his school show-and-tell, and while briefly lost and alone, Lawrence encounters the beauty of nature and finds exactly what he needs.
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2020]
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.
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Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Assistant district attorney Andy Barber is forced to choose between his duty to uphold justice and his duty as a father when his fourteen-year-old son becomes the prime suspect in the murder of one of his classmates.
Chris Evans stars in the limited series directed by Academy Award Nominee Morten Tyldum. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family...
16) Sunny
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds.Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track teama team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics. They all have a lot of lose, but they all...
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Wesley Peterson mysteries volume 21
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Piatkus
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Why did Wynn Staniland, a legend in the literary world, suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide; a death that mirrored a murder case from the nineteenth century. And now a promising young author called Zac Wilkinson is working on Staniland's biography and hopes to reveal the true story to a waiting world - while at the same time keeping his own troubled past hidden from public view....
18) Real steel
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2011.
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English
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Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
19) Mexican whiteboy
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.
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Criterion collection volume 700
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Mr. and Mrs. Fox have a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash and visiting nephew Kristofferson until Mr. Fox decides to plan a heist of three local farms to steal all their chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
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