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1381) Pancakes-Paris
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1947.
Language
English
Description
A young boy in postwar Paris is unsure of what to do with a box of pancake flour he receives as a gift.
1382) Baby drag queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Transgender teen Ichiro enters a drag contest in hopes of earning enough money to live off the grid"--
1383) Twice born
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"He Came In With It is the chronology of a mother and her family's coping with mental illness: the hurdles of diagnosis and treatment -- of stigma, denial, shame-- of pretending that things are T-square perfect for all the lacquered world"--
1385) Connect: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In a world run by computers, hackers have power--and awkward, homeschooled Colt is among the best. But when Colt secretly submits his mother Naomi's breakthrough research to a biotech conference, and it is immediately shut down, mother and son are forced to go on the run. Now Colt is coding for his life. As the military, and Colt's father, hunt them through a Las Vegas of self-driving cars and surveillance drones, Naomi has to decide how far she...
1386) Suddenly, last summer
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
1387) Last Christmas
Publisher
BBC Worldwide LTD
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be. Last Chistmas is a heart-warming tale about a mother and son overcoming loss and learning to appreciate all they still have." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Enix Co, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Despite belonging to a family of four, the Aoyama residence is typically home to three due to father Akiyoshi's job. While he's away at work, mom Tomoko and her two beloved sons Hiroki and Yuri go about their everyday lives - going to school, making dinner, doing homework, etc. But now that Hiroki's in his first year of high school, his thoughts are turning ever so slightly to sex and romance... and his mom can't help but notice his slips of the...
1390) Selected works
Author
Publisher
Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Works about people in conflict with the increasingly dehumanizing modern industrial world as they became separated from a more simple life, searching for new awareness and identity as they find their true place in the world.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Little John is proud of his mother's work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called "Big John," but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. Includes a history of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
1392) Princess and the peas
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this version of the classic story, Ma Sally of Charleston County, South Carolina, devises a contest for her son's admirers: cook up a dish of black-eyed peas that meets her exacting standards, and the winner can marry her son. Includes recipe for Princess' black-eyed peas." --
1393) The thud
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Noel's mother has a stroke, his world is turned upside down. Especially when a man comes, who tells Noel that he can't stay in the only home he's ever known. He has to move from his apartment and his city to some kind of care facility, in a town he's never heard of. For the first time, Noel is on his own. Who can he trust? Who can he love?"--Provided by publisher.
1396) Over the green hills
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Zolani, who lives in a rural black homeland in South Africa, goes with his mother to visit his Grandma Zindzi.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A production by the Williamstown Theatre Festival of Anton Chekhov's classic comedy-drama depicting man's propensity for destroying those he is close to. The main protagonists are Trepleff, the youthful aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre and Irina Arkadina, Trepleff's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, who derides her son's ambitions.
1398) Take this man: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this ... memoir in the vein of The glass castle or The tender bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
In war torn 1980's El Salvador, Chava, an eleven-year-old boy, suddenly becomes the 'man of the house' in a time when the government's army is forcibly recruiting children for civil war. As his single mother fights to protect her children, their village becomes both playground and battlefield. This is about life, love, the hope of peace, and the ennobling power of the human spirit. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Lyon's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"The Color of Love is Gene Cheek's story told in his singularly honest voice. Its sincerity and truth resonate with a plea for tolerance, and the irrevocable nature of the decisions and emotions of modern life" -- publisher website (March 2007).
