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1) Aloft
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follow a mother and her son into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will come into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of abandonment. In the present, a young journalist will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question.
2) Ben is back
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Ann Devereaux has just left her philandering husband Dan, a society bandleader, and taken to the road with her teenage sons, George and Robbie, in search of a suitable new mate. But it's 1953, years past Ann's courting days. Now it seems that the losers and playboys outnumber the eligible and willing bachelors.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Maggie is an uptight, single mother who, in an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, takes her to the Tuscan village where she used to visit in her youth. There Maggie runs into her former lover Luca and his mother, Carmen. When Summer and Carmen impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome, Maggie and Luca follow in close pursuit.
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Harry and his best friend, Tyrone, are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY. Harry's girlfriend, Marion, is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father. Harry's mother, Sara, spends her days watching television and wants to lose weight to go on a game show. She visits a sleazy doctor who prescribes her amphetamines and soon Sara has a drug habit of her own.
Series
Animal kingdom volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive Craig; and troubled "baby," Deran.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Codys are back, and the ties that bind them are about to be stretched to the limit in the third season of this bold, adrenaline-fueled hit drama about a Southern California crime family. Cody clan matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody, takes in estranged grandson Joshua 'J' Cody following his mother's overdose on heroin. In last season's shocking conclusion, second-in-command Baz was shot while on his way to Mexico after framing Smurf for murder.
9) Harvest love
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A widowed surgeon visits her family's pear orchard in hopes of taking a break from her overbooked life and reconnecting with her distant son. She starts to fall for the farm manager, Will, who is growing a new hybrid pear and teaches her the importance of her heritage.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A few years after the Final Battle in Storybrooke, a grown-up Henry Mills leaves home in search of his own destiny. What he finds is true love with a new incarnation of Cinderella and unexpected danger from her hateful stepmother and stepsister, plus the added menace of Mother Gothel, a villainous sorceress.
11) Coriolanus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. In the new city-state of Rome, where the gap between rich and poor is widening every day, his ambitious mother attempts to carve him a path to political power, but he struggles to change his nature."--Container.
12) The Grifters
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son Roy is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job that leads to a beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. Lilly doesn't warm to Roy's girlfriend Myra Langtry, and soon the two women compete for Roy in a battle that quickly turns dangerous.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Regina crushes the heart of her Dark Half, it appears Storybrooke will finally enjoy an era of tranquility. But this reprieve is short-lived when the Evil Queen reemerges and wreaks a level of havoc and terror that makes her previous cruelties pale by comparison. Desperate to right her counterpart's wrongs, Regina fights the ultimate battle against her nemesis, but can one survive if the other is destroyed?
14) Death in Texas
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An ex-convict with a wicked past must race against time to get the resources that will save his dying mother's life, even if it means stealing from the cartel.
15) Murphy's romance
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Emma Moriarty, a divorced horse trainer living in a small Arizona town, is courted by widower and pharmacists Murphy Jones and faces a difficult choice when her ex-husband appears on the scene.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a diabolical thing about curses: Just as one is broken, another, even more sinister than the first, inevitably emerges to wreak further havoc. Experience the heart-pounding action and tantalizing suspense of ABC's Once Upon A Time: the complete third season. The stakes are higher than ever following a narrow escape from the nightmare of Neverland and Peter Pan. A year after their amazing adventure, Emma and Henry are living in New York with no...
17) Campfire kiss
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Feeling disconnected with her teenage son, a protective mother decides to step outside of her comfort zone and take him camping. But as soon as she arrives, she begins butting heads with her cabin neighbor, a single father and outdoorsman who is also in search of a connection with his teen daughter.
Language
English
Description
The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The hopes and aspirations for her sons is movingly communicated from beginning to conclusion.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Season two explodes into action with the brash Cody bad boys in the midst of a high-adrenaline heist. Their haul is a dud, and the frustrated brothers rebel against their all controlling mother, Smurf, as well as each other. An external threat from Smurf's past adds to the chaos, jeopardizing her gift, and ominous responsibility.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In season four, the ruthless Cody crime family is as much of a threat to each other as they are to their targets. Smurf is back on top reminding her boys who's boss no matter whom she hurts in the process. And as always, outsiders move in to threaten the Cody's fragile peace, including a new criminal crew with a surprising connection to the Codys.
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