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281) Alpha male
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jim Ferris is the "alpha male"-- warm, charismatic, and successful, he is the consummate provider for his wife Alice and children, Jack and Elyssa. It feels as though nothing can touch the idyllic world he has created. But when he dies suddenly, grief, jealousy and dysfunction fill the vacuum-- until the family's tensions surface a decade later at Jack's 21st birthday party.
282) Mother nature
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation's experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico, relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the "Mother Nature" project, its clean water. Haunted by her father's death, the rebellious Nova wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant's...
283) People like us
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
While settling his recently deceased father's estate and reconnecting with his estranged family, a twenty-something salesman discovers he has a half sister.
285) Fascination
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Baffled and distraught after his athletic father mysteriously drowns, Scott Doherty's grief turns to fury when his mother Maureen returns from a cruise with a new lover, Oliver Vance. Suspecting foul play, Scott confides in Oliver's daughter Kelly, and, as the two investigate, they fall in love. However, Kelly has dark secrets of her own, and while it seems that she is the love of Scott's life, she could also be the end of it.
286) Hamlet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Full original text edition.
Language
English
Description
"The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn't simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance - no matter how many other people must die for it."--Page [4] of cover.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, César Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
289) Eden in winte
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin.
290) Saga: Volume 11
Author
Series
Saga volume 11
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. A multiple award winning, critically...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When their father dies unexpectedly, siblings Max, Ellie and Nathan can't even contemplate emptying his house; not least, because he spent his last decade curating what feels like a museum to his polished public image. So it is Max's wife, Caroline, who finds the suitcase under a bed. A suitcase stuffed full of an awful lot of cash. The source of the money is a mystery to them all, and each has a strong opinion about what to do with it. Ellie and...
292) Tragic: Volume one
Author
Series
Tragic volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Harper Hayes' father is dead. She's convinced his mysterious and tragic death is not an accident and is determined to find out who is responsible. Suspect number one: her uncle, who has been having an affair with her mother. Harper enlists the help of her ex-girlfriend Talia and her best friend (sometimes with benefits) Holden to prove her uncle's guilt. But when her father's business partner is also found dead, Harper realizes finding the murderer...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018, ©2017.
Edition
PB.
Language
English
Description
In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga's alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power-including the shogun's seat! In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men,...
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