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1) Nicotine
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life-by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of an Amazonian tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain group of aging hippies while operating a ?healing center? in New Jersey. And she?s never felt particularly close to her much-older half-brothers from Norm?s previous marriage-one...
3) Gut shot
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at 2.00 dollars an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour. So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Ranjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, lives with his family among the migrant workers of Martha's Vineyard, working as a caretaker of the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. Needing a place to stay, Ranjit moves his family into an empty Senator's home. Happily, but illegally ensconced in the house, he tries to forget his brief affair with Anna, the wife of an African-American senator, and focus on providing...
8) Lungfish
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives--or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers--bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious...
15) Cuba libre
Publisher
Distributed by Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
After being evicted from their cultural center, a group of squatters enter the Cuban Embassy in Madrid at the same time that Fidel Castro announces the first free elections. This creates unwanted attention for the squatters who find themselves the target of the police and a beautiful reporter who will stop at nothing to get the exclusive of the year.
Cuando echan a la calle a un grupo de inmigrantes ilegales, estos buscan refugio en la Embajada Cubana...
17) Rent
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This film captures the last Broadway performance of the long running rock musical RENT. Loosely based on Puccini's opera "La Bohème," it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Roommates, friends, lovers, at times enemies, the struggles of documentary filmmaker Mark, musician...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's funeral that she and her sister, Yanne, have lived their entire...