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81) The season of us
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"Gincy Gannon Luongo escaped from the storybook small town of Appleville, New Hampshire twenty years ago. Now, she is bringing her teenage daughter Tasmin with her to visit her recently widowed mother in the weeks leading up to Christmas at her brother Tommy's urging. Her once feisty and strong-willed mother Ellen Gannon is mired in depression and her brother isn't doing much better. With each passing day, dealing with the imagined slights and lingering...
82) A family reunion
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"It's been fifteen years since the Bennetts were all in one place, at one time, and now at a total blowout of a reunion four special cousins' hidden desires and long-kept secrets will challenge their bond, test their courage, and change their hearts forever. . .Taye is a hair stylist with big ambitions. She's trusted the wrong men in the past and now she determined to land the right one, no matter who stands in her way. Michael is a widowed airline...
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Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
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Littlefoot has a vivid dream in which he imagines travelling to a place where there are many of his kind, and when he tells the story to his grandparents, they take it as a sign to set out and find this mysterious place. After days of travel they do indeed discover a new world where longneck dinosaurs are plentiful, including one they never expected to see -- Bron, Littlefoot's father, who went missing before he was born. While Littlefoot is thrilled...
85) Envious casca
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'Tis the season—to be dead...
A holiday party takes on a sinister aspect when the colorful assortment of guests discovers there is a killer in their midst. The owner of the substantial estate, that old Scrooge Nathaniel Herriard, is found stabbed in the back. While the delicate matter of inheritance could be the key to this crime, the real conundrum is how any of the suspects could have entered a locked room to commit the
...86) Snoopy's reunion
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Years ago, at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, a unique litter is born. Snoopy, Spike, Andy, Olaf, Marbles, Belle, Molly and Rover and brothers and sisters. They grow up and form a band. However, they become separated when they are sold. Years later, Charlie Brown can't help but notice how sad Snoopy has become. He suggests that Snoopy have a family reunion. The whole gang enthusiastically responds, and even when they return to their birthplace for the...
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 3
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Super Hero High is out for summer, which means Wonder Woman has to take her annual trip to visit her dad, Zeus. This time she's bringing a few of her super-friends along. When the girls arrive at Olympus, it's not long before the family reunion devolves into a family competition. The gods offer Wonder Woman the ability to become "full goddess" to increase her powers, but at the cost of renouncing her life at Super Hero High. Will Wonder Woman refuse...
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Lynn and her three youngest children attend the wedding of her estranged eldest son at her parents' Annapolis estate. Though she is hoping for a joyful reunion, her attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course when she is hurled into the center of touchy family dynamics.
91) Peeples
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Sparks fly when Wade Walker crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace's hand in marriage. Wade might be a fish-out-of-water among this seemingly perfect East Coast clan, but he's not about to let himself flounder. Instead, in a wild weekend of fun, dysfunction and hilarious surprises, Wade is about to discover there's room for all kinds of Peeples in this family, no matter their differences....
92) A Christmas tale
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When steely French matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve) learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family Christmas gathering to see if they are eligible to become bone marrow donors. This causes deep friction in the family, especially between Junon's daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and son Henri (Mathieu Amalric), who already have a tumultuous relationship. Their mother's sickness also recalls the traumatic loss of...
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"'A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost...an impressive debut'-Peter Balakian; Born into poverty in southern New Jersey and raised in a commune of single mothers, Mary Anna King watched her mother give away one of her newborn sisters every year to another family. All told, there were seven children: Mary, her older brother, and five phantom sisters. Then one day, Mary was sent away, too. Living in Oklahoma...
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In this sequel to the 2001 cult favorite, the return of the mullet-wearing, rock and roll loving, down on his luck white-trash-hero who embarks on another epic journey, this time through the recent past, the heartland of America, and his own mind, to get back to his loved ones.
96) Joe Dirt
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"Joe, whose search for his family has him hittin' the road and keepin' it real with every lowlife he meets, including a sweet hottie, a janitor, and a psychotic cannibal with whom he has a brief interlude. Through it all, Joe keeps on truckin' all the way to L.A., where a shock jock targets Joe as the butt of his show. But Joe's plucky spirit encourages listeners to cheer him on and help him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted"--Container....
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California teen Ryder is heading to Nebraska for a family reunion. After planning to come out to his conservative relatives, he holds off at his mother's request but makes a show entrance at the cookout anyway. Only his nine-year-old cousin Molly notices. When Molly and Ryder go to the barn to look for birds, Molly comes back screaming and inconsolable. In the process of clearing his name, Ryder learns that some family secrets are sometimes better...
99) Best behavior
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"Meredith Parker has made the journey to Bolton, her twins' college, dozens of times. This weekend, though, is different. Dawn and Cody are about to graduate and move away to separate corners of the country. Meredith is proud of her kids, and she's proud of herself for helping them get this far. She just never expected the tidal wave of emotions sweeping over her - or the tangled family dynamics complicating everything. Meredith doesn't miss her cheating...
100) Joe on the go
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Joe the frog wants to be on the go, but even at a family reunion he is out of luck, as everyone says they are too busy, or he is too fast, too slow, too big, or too small to go with them, until Grandma invites him to go with her on a special outing.