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Last winter / by Mac, Carrie,1975-author.;
In the midst of his marital crisis, Gus takes their daughter's class on an overnight trip into the wilderness, where Ruby is one of only two children to survive the avalanche that kills the others, including her beloved father. After the search ends with no sign of her father, Ruby is determined to find him herself, using the survival skills he taught her and believing that he must still be alive. Her trek back into the snow sets off events that stretches her own resourcefulness and her mother's fragile coping skills to the breaking point.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Avalanches; Bipolar disorder; Communities; Disaster victims; Dysfunctional families; Marital conflict; Missing persons; Small cities; Survival;
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Absolutely, positively Natty / by Greenwald, Lisa.;
Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.Ages 8-12.
Subjects: Attitude; Friendship; Cheerleaders; Dysfunctional families; Children of separated parents; Middle schools; Schools; Jews;
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A long way down [videorecording] / by Brosnan, Pierce,actor.; Chaumeil, Pascal,director.; Chaumell, Pascal,film director.; Collette, Toni,actor.; Dwyer, Finola,film producer.; Hornby, Nick.Long way down.Videorecording.; Poots, Imogen,1989-actor.; Posey, Amanda,film producer.; Thorne, Jack,writer of screenplay.; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
Music by Dario Marianelli; edited by Barney Pilling, Chris Gill; director of photography, Ben Davis.Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul, Zara White.Four suicidal strangers find support in the last place they ever expected to in this emotionally charged comedy-drama based on the novel by Nick Hornby. It's New Year's Eve in London, and disgraced television personality Martin (Pierce Brosnan) is about to take a flying leap off of Topper's Tower when he's interrupted by Maureen (Toni Collette), a lonely single mother who's reached the end of her rope. Meanwhile, as the pair realize their suicide plans have overlapped, onto the rooftop dashes Jess (Imogen Poots), a rebellious teen with nothing left to live for. Just when it seems this despairing group can't possibly get any bigger, rocker-turned-pizza delivery driver J.J. (Aaron Paul) shows up with a fresh pie and a death wish. Rather than taking the plunge together, the unlikely foursome decide to put their plans off until Valentine's Day -- sticking together and supporting one another in the interim. Later, as their friendship deepens, their unusual pact stirs a media firestorm.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1 ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen 2.35:1.
Subjects: Hornby, Nick.; Apartment dwellers; Comedy films.; Dysfunctional families; Feature films.; Friendship; New Year; Strangers; Suicidal behavior;
© 2014., Distributed by Mongrel Media,
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Because I am furniture / by Chaltas, Thalia,author.;
990The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.Accelerated Reader ARAmerican Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project, 2010
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Teen fiction.; American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project; Novels in verse.; Child abuse; Child sexual abuse; Guilt; Dysfunctional families; High schools; Schools; Novels in verse.; Child abuse; Sex crimes; Guilt; Dysfunctional families; High schools; Schools; Novels in verse.; Child abuse; Child sexual abuse; Family problems; High schools; Schools; Child abuse.; Child sexual abuse.; Dysfunctional families.; Guilt.; High schools.; Novels in verse.; Schools.; Sex crimes.; School stories.; Child sexual abuse; Child abuse; Novels in verse.; Guilt; High schools;
© 2010, ©2009., Speak,
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No perfect places / by Salvatore, Steven,author.;
After their father dies unexpectedly in prison, twins Alex and Olly's relationship becomes fractured as they cope with their loss very differently, and to make matters worse, Olly is hiding the truth that Tyler, who recently arrived at their lakeside town for the summer, is actually their half-brother.012+.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Grief; Secrecy; Siblings; Twins; Family problems; Family secrets; Grief; Secrets; Brothers and sisters; Twins;
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Pebble & Dove / by Jones, Amy,1976-author.;
"In the tradition of Karen Russell's Swamplandia!, a once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-ship in Florida is the captivating backdrop for a novel of family secrets and dysfunction, and the ways in which it can sometimes take an animal to remind us how to be human. This is the story of a family falling apart, only to be brought back together again by an unlikely champion--a 1,000-pound aquatic mammal named Pebble. Lauren's life is a mess. She has a storage unit full of candles she can't sell, a growing mountain of debt, and a teenage daughter, Dove, who barely speaks to her. Then her husband sends her a text that changes everything. Eager to escape her problems, she drives herself and Dove south to her late mother's rundown trailer in Florida. While keeping her eccentric new neighbours at Swaying Palms at bay, Lauren begins to untangle the truth about her estranged mother. How did world-famous portrait photographer Imogen Starr end up at Swaying Palms?And what happened to her fortune and her photographs? Meanwhile, Dove has secrets of her own. A mysterious photograph leads her to discover the abandoned Flamingo Key Aquarium and Tackle, where she meets Pebble, the world's oldest manatee in captivity. It is Pebble, a former star attraction, and her devoted caretaker, Ray, who will hold the key to helping Lauren and Dove come to terms with Imogen's unexpected legacy. Darkly funny and sharply observed, Pebble & Dove is a moving novel about the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters, and learning how to choose between what's worth saving and what needs to be let go."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Aquariums; Captive wild animals; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Manatees; Mothers and daughters;
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The light jar / by Thompson, Lisa(Lisa Anne),1973-;
Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.LSC
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Stepfathers; Psychological abuse; Imaginary companions; Friendship; Dysfunctional families; Treasure troves;
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The agony of Bun O'Keefe / by Smith, Heather,1968-;
Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life with her mother, a compulsive hoarder, and had little contact with the outside world. Bun and her mother rarely talk, so when Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's, Newfoundland, where she meets Busker Boy, a street musician who takes her in. Together they live in a house with an eclectic cast of characters, and Bun gets to learn the world beyond the walls of her mother's house.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Teenage girls; Street youth; Street musicians; Friendship; Dysfunctional families; Mothers and daughters;
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The caretaker : a novel / by Rash, Ron,1953-author.;
"A novel about Blackburn Gant, the caretaker of a hilltop cemetery in North Carolina whose best friend is drafted into the Korean war, leaving his young wife Naomi in Blackburn's care"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cemeteries; Dysfunctional families; Korean War, 1950-1953; Male friendship; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen fifties; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome;
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Succession. [videorecording] / by Abbass, Hiam,actor.; Armstrong, Jesse,creator.; Braun, Nicholas,actor.; Cox, Brian,1946-actor.; Culkin, Kieran,actor.; Dominczyk, Dagmara,1976-actor.; Friedman, Peter,actor.; Lupe, Justine,1989-actor.; Macfadyen, Matthew,1974-actor.; Moayed, Arian,actor.; Rasche, David,1944-actor.; Ruck, Alan,1956-actor.; Skarsgård, Alexander,actor.; Smith-Cameron, J.,actor.; Snook, Sarah,1987-actor.; Stevens, Fisher,actor.; Strong, Jeremy,1978-actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Matthew Mcfadyen, Nicholas Braun, J. Smith-Cameron, Peter Friedman, David Rasche, Fisher Stevens, Hiam Abbass, Justine Lupe, Dagmara Dominczyk, Arian Moayed, Alexander Skarsgård.The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political capital is severely curtailed.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Businesspeople; Chief executive officers; Dysfunctional families; Executive succession; Executives; Mass media; Mass media;
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