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Boy swallows universe / by Dalton, Trent,author.;
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious criminal for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Dysfunctional families; Friendship; Suburbs; Nineteen eighties; Criminals; Coming of age;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A thousand steps / by Parker, T. Jefferson,author.;
"Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's fighting in Nam ... and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she's just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn't believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. All Matt really wants to do is get his driver's license and ask out the girl he's been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it's up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don't trust the hippies and the hippies don't trust the cops, uncovering what's really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it's not already too late"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Dysfunctional families; Missing persons; Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.;
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Made in Italy [videorecording] / by Antonio, Helena,actor.; D'Arcy, James,1975-film director.; Bilello, Valeria,1982-actor.; Duncan, Lindsay,actor.; Neeson, Liam,actor.; Quaglia, Marco,actor.; Richardson, Micheal,actor.; Tavani, Gian Marco,actor.; Shout! Factory (Firm),film distributor.;
Liam Neeson, Valeria Bilello, Micheal Richardson, Lindsay Duncan, Marco Quaglia, Gian Marco Tavani, Helena Antonio.A heartwarming father-son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert, who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. Renovations go badly, with father and son soon finding themselves at odds. Robert's comical lack of DIY experience leads him to seek help from some colorful locals.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Dwellings; Fathers and sons; Dysfunctional families; Widowers; Inheritance and succession;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A thousand steps [sound recording] / by Parker, T. Jefferson,author.; Godfrey, Matt(Narrator),narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Matt Godfrey."Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's fighting in Nam ... and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she's just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn't believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. All Matt really wants to do is get his driver's license and ask out the girl he's been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it's up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don't trust the hippies and the hippies don't trust the cops, uncovering what's really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it's not already too late"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Brothers and sisters; Dysfunctional families; Missing persons; Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The echo chamber / by Boyne, John,1971-author.;
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the prescribed path.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Celebrities; Dysfunctional families; Novelists; Open marriage; Public opinion; Secrecy; Social media; Television personalities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mother-daughter murder night : a novel / by Simon, Nina,author.;
"High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage--and hoping that boredom won't kill her before the cancer does. Then Jack--tiny in stature but fiercely independent-stumbles upon a dead body while kayaking near their bungalow. Jack quickly becomes a suspect in the homicide investigation, and the Rubicon women are thrown into chaos"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Businesswomen; Dysfunctional families; Mothers and daughters; Murder;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The color purple [videorecording] / by Fantasia,1984-actor.; Bazawule, Blitz,film director.; Brooks, Danielle,actor.; Domingo, Colman,actor.; Gardley, Marcus,screenwriter.; Henson, Taraji P.,actor.; Jones, Quincy,1933-film producer.; Sanders, Scott,1957-film producer.; Spielberg, Steven,1946-film producer.; Winfrey, Oprah,film producer.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Walker, Alice,1944-Color purple.; Harpo Films,production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ),presenter.;
Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, Halle Bailey, Ciara, H.e.r., David Alan Grier, Deon Cole, Louis Gossett Jr., Jon Batiste.A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic content, sexual content, violence and language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Musical films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Abused wives; Adult child sexual abuse victims; Dysfunctional families; African American women; African American families; Man-woman relationships;
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The peacekeeper : a novel / by Blanchard, B. L.,author.;
"North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don't exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the village of Baawitigong, a Peacekeeper confronts his devastating past. Twenty years ago to the day, Chibenashi's mother was murdered and his father confessed. Ever since, caring for his still-traumatized younger sister has been Chibenashi's privilege and penance. Now, on the same night of the Manoomin harvest, another woman is slain. His mother's best friend. This leads to a seemingly impossible connection that takes Chibenashi far from the only world he's ever known. The major city of Shikaakwa is home to the victim's cruelly estranged family--and to two people Chibenashi never wanted to see again: his imprisoned father and the lover who broke his heart. As the questions mount, the answers will change his and his sister's lives forever. Because Chibenashi is about to discover that everything about their lives has been a lie."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Alternative histories (Fiction); Novels.; Brothers and sisters; Dysfunctional families; Families; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Secrecy; Ojibwe;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Schitt's Creek. [videorecording] / by Levy, Eugene,1946-television producer,actor.; Levy, Daniel,television producer,screenwriter,actor,television director.; O'Hara, Catherine,actor.; Murphy, Annie,1986-actor.; Rozon, Tim,actor.; Elliott, Chris,1960-actor.; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,production company,broadcaster.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),distributor.;
Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy, Jennifer Robertson, Emily Hampshire, Tim Rozon, Sarah Levy, Chris Elliott.When a filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy), his soap star wife Moira (Catherine O'Hara), and their two kids - über-hipster son David (Dan Levy) and socialite daughter Alexis (Annie Murphy) - suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small, depressing town they once bought as a joke. With their pampered lives now abandoned, they must confront their new-found poverty and discover what it means to be a family, all within the rural city limits of their new home.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television comedies.; Television programs.; Motels; Dysfunctional families; Bankruptcy; Television actors and actresses; Rich people; Small cities; Poverty;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Schitt's Creek. [videorecording] / by Levy, Eugene,1946-television producer,actor.; Levy, Daniel,television producer,screenwriter,actor,television director.; O'Hara, Catherine,actor.; Murphy, Annie,1986-actor.; Rozon, Tim,actor.; Elliott, Chris,1960-actor.; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,production company,broadcaster.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),distributor.;
Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy, Jennifer Robertson, Emily Hampshire, Tim Rozon, Sarah Levy, Chris Elliott.When a filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy), his soap star wife Moira (Catherine O'Hara), and their two kids - über-hipster son David (Dan Levy) and socialite daughter Alexis (Annie Murphy) - suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small, depressing town they once bought as a joke. With their pampered lives now abandoned, they must confront their new-found poverty and discover what it means to be a family, all within the rural city limits of their new home.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television comedies.; Television programs.; Motels; Dysfunctional families; Bankruptcy; Television actors and actresses; Rich people; Small cities; Poverty;
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Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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