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41) Hell fire
Author
Series
Inspector Sejer novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank camper. The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jacob Skarre begin a hunt for the killer that will eventually lead them to...
42) Nora Webster
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widowed at forty, with four children, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice. Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven--herself.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, it is a visually sumptuous coming-of-death fable. During her son's naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina's child will die at the age of twenty. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina's ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas, and challenges...
45) The rogue
Author
Series
Traitor spy trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
485 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sonea, Black Magician of Kyralia, remains deeply concerned about her son Lorkin, who has gone missing on assignment in the foreign land of Sachaka. Her problems at home remain as well, for there is a rogue magician on the loose, threatening the life of her friend Cery, leader of the Thieves. Lorkin, living among the Sachakan rebels, does his best to learn about them and their unique magic. But the Traitors are reluctant to trade their knowledge for...
Author
Series
Traitor spy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
513 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sonea, former street urchin, now a Black Magician of Kyralia, is horrified when her son, Lorkin, volunteers to assist Dannyl in his new role as Guild Ambassador to Sachaka, a land still ruled by cruel black magicians. When word comes that Lorkin has gone missing Sonea is desperate to find him, but if she leaves the city she will be exiled forever, and her old friend Cery needs her help. Most of his family has been murdered. The Thieves have been waging...
47) The suspect
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth--and this time is no exception. But she can't help but think of her own son, whom she hasn't seen in two...
48) The last promise
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
viii, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eliana, unhappy in her marriage to the philandering Maurizio and caring for a sick child, falls in love with Ross Story, an American who has come to Italy to work at a local art museum, but it seems as though their romance is doomed due to the laws that would award custody of her young son to her husband if she were to leave.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"[A] portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable...
50) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Despite the civil war going on around her, a white woman living in Africa refuses to give up her coffee plantation, putting herself and her sons in danger.
51) Wait
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"--
54) Süt =: Milk
Series
Yusuf trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
After graduating from high school, a young man tries to figure out his future as he helps his widowed mother with their dairy business.
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxi, 265 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is both an incredibly moving mother-son love story told in personal essays, and a parenting manual with concrete advice and actionable takeaways for feminists of all stripes hoping to dismantle toxic masculinity, one sweet boy at a time"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. 12-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their...
58) The keeper's six
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kate Elliott's action-packed The Keeper's Six features a world-hopping, bad-ass, spell-slinging mother who sets out to rescue her kidnapped son from a dragon lord with everything to lose. There are terrors that dwell in the space between worlds. It's been a year since Esther set foot in the Beyond, the alien landscape stretching between worlds, crossing boundaries of space and time. She and her magical travelling party-her Hex-haven't spoken since...
59) For One More Day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, a new novel that millions of fans have been waiting for.
"Every family is a ghost story . . ."
Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family...
"Every family is a ghost story . . ."
Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For teenage Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), home is the open road. Her self-reliant father (Steven Ogg) is her anchor in a life of transience. The pair crisscross the United States in a lovingly refurbished RV, relishing their independence and making ends meet by doing odd jobs. A shocking rupture, though, casts Nola out on her own. She makes her way to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in search of a mother she never knew. When her motorhome unexpectedly breaks...
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