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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt father/daughter tale inspired by the heart-wrenching true story. When Nicki discovers two horses stranded deep in the snow, she is determined to get them off the mountain...somehow. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path of deep snow, inspiring first her father, Matt, and then the entire community to band together in the spirit of Christmas.
22) Gifted
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exhange for her exclusive story.
24) Piku: Pīkū
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Hindi
Description
A quirky comedy about the relationship between an ageing father and his young daughter, living in a cosmopolitan city, dealing with each other's conflicting ideologies while being fully aware that they are each other's only emotional support.
25) Crawl
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1943 Alberta, 12-year-old Clara goes on a mystical journey on Christmas Eve to find her father who is thousands of miles away serving the country in the Second World War. She receives unexpected help from the mysterious Drosselmeyer who befriends Clara and encourages her to believe she can create magic.
Pub. Date
2004, 1941.
Language
Español
Description
Isabel, hija de Don Antonio, rico hacendado de Tepetates, Jalisco, regresa a su pueblo después de 5 años a ver a su padre. Enfrentándose a la sorpresa de su asesinato en manos de malvados y crueles cuartreros que están apoderados del gobierno municipal y que tienen amenazado a todo el lugar, el licenciado Torres se convierte en el justiciero guardián de los derechos de los débiles y desposeídos.
A family is torn apart, and a town is changed...
28) The wrestler
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back in the late '80s, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, decades past his prime, he barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. He faces health problems that may end his wrestling career and is attempting to come to terms with his life outside the ring. He wants to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and begins a relationship with a stripper....
29) Our wild hearts
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A coming of age story about a sophisticated young girl, Willow Johnson. She leaves Malibu for the beautiful High Country of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in order to find her father Jack Thomas and potentially create a loving relationship with him. After she meets up with Jack, the young girl discovers her first love in a wild, gifted mustang she names Bravo. The steed's indomitable spirit helps Willow find a love for spontaneity and adventure with...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Hindi
Description
It is the story of four fathers, four daughters and four prospective sons-in-law. Each father wants his daughter to marry the richest son-in-law. Each daughter thinks she is marrying the richest son-in-law. Each son-in-law is pretending to be the richest son-in-law.
32) Jauja
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Captain Dinesen takes a job with the Argentine army and brings his fifteen-year-old daughter, Ingeborg, along. Being the only female in the area, she causes quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier, and one night they run away together. When Dinesen realizes what happened, he decides to venture into enemy territory to find them.
33) Gold star
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vicki, a young music-school dropout struggling to make sense of her aimless life, becomes the primary caretaker for her dying ninety-year-old father.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming story adapted from the bestselling 'Love Comes Softly' series by Janette Oke. When the wife of a struggling homesteader on the western frontier unexpectedly dies, the man searches for the strength and courage to raise his young daughter, and finds it, with the help of his parents.
35) Tortilla soup
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
37) The pool
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Hindi
Description
The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a 'room boy' working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants and his curiosity changes the shape of his...
38) Broken blossoms
Series
Pub. Date
℗2002, �1919.
Language
English
Description
Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living under the violent, abusive hand of her resentful prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them until that time. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his...
39) The thin man
Series
Thin man collection volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthung. Nick and Nora Charles combine screwball romance with mystery.
40) The lovely bones
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
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