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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A divorced father, who has run from parental responsibilities, takes his three children on a magnificent summer cruise. When they receive word of their mother's death, they find themselves pawns for the affections of their father and step-father. They must make the decision as to which father they want.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandons her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story follows a recently divorced dad and his two kids as they travel to celebrate Thanksgiving with their eccentric Aunt Cly in the rustic town of Turkey Hollow. Exploring the mysterious surrounding woods leads the kids to discover the secret of the legendary Howling Hoodoo. When a scheming neighbor threatens to take Aunt Cly's farm, the family enlists surprising new friends to help save the farm, and Thanksgiving.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourth-grade schoolteacher Amanda Huntington said good-bye to her high school sweetheart when she realized he had fallen in love with someone else. Now, a year later, she wonders if she'll spend the rest of her life alone. When she meets Blake Simmons, Amanda finds her life turned upside down. Blake doesn't seem like the knight in shining armor she always imagined. With two adorable children in his care, he is locked in an ugly battle of wills with...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly...
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Shayne Brynner has tried everything to make his marriage work. His wife, Margie, only feels well enough to shop incessantly and go to lunch with her friends. Buckling under Margies extreme credit-card debt, Shayne is forced to sell their home and move the family into an apartment. Mortified and enraged, Margie leaves the family. Eight-year-old Scotty Brynner is having a noticeably difficult time coping with the problems at home. When he misses...
10) Daddy longlegs
Series
Criterion collection volume 1138
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mining the emotional sense memories of their fractured childhoods, Josh and Benny Safdie craft a by turns empathetic and disquieting portrait of parental dysfunction poised between fierce love and terrifying irresponsibility. Manic Manhattan movie theater projectionist Lenny is perhaps the last person who should be raising kids, yet here he is, trying (and failing) to keep it together as his life unravels over the two whirlwind weeks that he has custody...
11) The last song
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Follows a teenage girl still resentful of her parents' divorce as she spends the summer in a quiet Southern beach community with her estranged father and falls in love for the first time.
14) Thunder road
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of flawed police officer Jim Arnaud, who lives a shambolic life that's somehow made even worse by his mother's passing. His only stability comes in the shape of his daughter, Crystal, who he tries to father, amidst messy divorce proceedings with his estranged wife, Roz, as best as he can.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Executive VP Peter Morrison, divorced father of 13-year-old Sam, has always suspected - deep down inside - that Sam is not his biological child. This doubt gnaws at him until he seizes an opportunity to have their blood tested and his horrible fears confirmed. Furious, confused, and hurt, he lashes out at his ex-wife. She retaliates by refusing to let him see Sam, and by telling the boy that his beloved father is really no such thing. In an effort...
16) Vanishing acts
Author
Language
English
Description
Working with the Search and Rescue bloodhound team to find missing people, single mother Delia Hopkins anticipates her upcoming nuptials, until a series of unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life and the lives of those she loves.
Author
Series
Haggerty mystery novels volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When grief-stricken Beth Middleton accepts a job as a court-appointed evaluator for a local, high-profile attorney and his five-year-old daughter, Beth finds herself embroiled in a trial that could be the most important one in her boss's legal career. Witnesses disappear, the district attorney is kidnapped, and a man with a gun has just knocked on her door.
18) Mrs. Doubtfire
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Daniel Hillard is no ordinary father, so when he learns his ex-wife needs a housekeeper, he applies for the job. With the perfect wig, a little makeup and a dress for all occasions, he becomes Mrs. Doubtfire, a devoted British housekeeper who is hired on the spot. Free to be the "woman" he never knew he could be, the disguised Daniel creates a whole new life with his entire family.
19) Summer brother
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father. His older brother Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, has been institutionalized for years. While Lucien's home is undergoing renovations, he is sent to live with his father and younger brother for the summer. Their detached father leaves Brian to care for Lucien's special needs. But how do you look after someone when you don't know...
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