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English
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When Charlotte married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her trailer-park past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned.
Author
Series
Critter Club volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Amy so looks forward to meeting her future stepsister, Chloe, that she is not prepared when Chloe first ignores her than is downright mean.
4) Oh, brother!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Xavier is unhappy when his mother remarries and he suddenly has a new stepbrother, as well as a stepfather, in his home.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt dramatic comedy, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step-cousin at a summer camp for Mormon girls. Reeling from the recent loss of her father to cancer, she finds that there are many others who feel her pain -- and that she never has to face her sorrow alone.
7) Dina
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this 2017 Sundance and IDA award-winning film, Dina, an eccentric and outspoken 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiance Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen, Theatrical version.
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 10
Publisher
MaevaYoung
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La madre de Kristy se ha casado con Watson y toda la familia se ha mudado a un barrío nuevo y lujoso. Los otras chicas de El Club de las Baby-Sitters piensan que es una buena oportunidad para conseguir nuevos clientes, pero los niños que viven cerca de Kristy y su familia no son muy simpáticos, la critican y se burlan edl club, Y, lo peor de todo, se ríen de Louie, el Collie de Kristy, que se está haciendo mayor y no se encuentra bien. Estos...
12) High society
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In this sophisticated musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.
Series
Criterion collection volume 377
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
日本語
Description
A widowed woman who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's postwar Ginza district struggles to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A young widow with family obligations, Keiko is the madam of an upstairs bar in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo in 1960. As she approaches 30, she realizes that her life is at a crossroads: she must either go into business and open her own bar or marry.
14) Time after time
Author
Series
Best wishes volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Usathorn of Fort Worth, Texas, is super excited for her class trip to the Natural History Museum, where her dad works. Sure, Ms. Brock, the strict school librarian who happens to be dating Lucy’s dad (awkward), is chaperoning, but it’ll still be the best day ever, right? Wrong! Lucy has to watch in shock and humiliation as her dad proposes to Ms. Brock. Lucy is distraught. If only she could do this whole day over from scratch.… Enter...
Author
Publisher
Cardinal Rule Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Beto won't wear a guayabera to the wedding. Nope! Nunca! Not going to happen! Beto tries his best to rid himself of the traditional Mexican wedding shirt his Mami gave him. He even gets help from his dog Lupe, but the shirt ends up back on his bed each time with notes from Mami, who becomes increasingly frustrated with Beto"--Amazon.
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