Catalog Search Results
1) Luce
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular characters struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher encounters a shocking revelation upon examining the contents...
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Laurel and Clay have three weeks to plan their wedding that will take place at Graceland Chapel in the Woods at Elvis Presley's celebrated Memphis home. However, when both sets of in-laws, each with vastly different personalities and ideas for the wedding, descend upon Memphis to "help" plan the nuptials, the bride and groom are pushed to the breaking point.
Author
Description
In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's ward, intimately tending to his silent, vacant father's bodily needs while hopelessly trying to reach him with monologues and settle misunderstandings. In Act 2, in an eerie reversal of roles, Alex visits Claude in the same ward, similarly finding disconsolate irony where he had looked for forgiveness.
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Formats
Description
Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help Michael's three children, along with grown-up Jane and Michael Banks, through a difficult period in their lives.
"An industrial-strength sugarplum with compensations from Emily Blunt and Lin-Manual Miranda, whose performing magic can leave you feeling deliriously happy."--Rolling Stone
"There's more than a spoonful of sugar in this felicitous revisitation."--Toronto Star
"Emily...
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Princess Peppa -- Peppa Pig: Stars -- Peppa Pig When I Grow Up -- Peppa Pig: Around the World -- Peppa Pig: Sunny Vacation -- Peppa Pig: School Bus Trip -- Peppa Pig: The Balloon Ride.
Princess Peppa: Join Peppa and brother George as their bedtime story turns them into Princess Peppa and Sir George the Brave who together meet a wizard, encounter a scary dragon and attend a huge party. Then Peppa and George both fall asleep waiting for The Tooth Fairy.
Peppa...
9) L.A. weather
Author
Formats
Description
L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters--Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a...
Author
Formats
Description
Former child star Hayley Aldridge fights the conservatorship that is governing every aspect of her life, leaving her at the mercy of her controlling parents, and uses social media to build support for her as a court date to review the status of the conservatorship approaches.
Author
Formats
Description
"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The narrator, a writer, recalls all that...
Author
Formats
Description
In this moving story, Jack and Molly Campbell are enjoying a wonderful life with Joey, their four-year-old adopted son. But their world is soon shattered when they learn Joey's biological father is out of prison and wants to begin a new life with his son. And when a judge orders them to surrender Joey, the Campbells desperately consider taking their son and disappearing-just like dandelion dust.
13) Lone wolf
Author
Description
A regular at the #1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list, Jodi Picoult crafts stories about family, love, and redemption. Here Picoult tells the tale of Edward Warren, an estranged son who faces a monumental decision when his father is left comatose after a terrible car accident. Edward wants to terminate life support, but his sister Cara wouldn't think of it. As the dilemma tears the family apart, Edward must examine whether his decision is...
14) The Noel letters
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 4
Formats
Description
After nearly two decades, Noel Post returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and...
15) Disney Pixar
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Finding Nemo -- Ratatouille -- WALL-E -- Up -- Brave -- A Bug's Life -- Finding Dory.
Finding Nemo: In the depths of the Great Barrier Reef, Marlin, an overly protective clownfish, embarks on a daring rescue mission when his beloved son, Nemo, gets scooped up by a diver. With his unforgettable friend Dory by his side, Marlin encounters an ocean full of memorable comedic characters on his momentous journey -- to find Nemo.
Ratatouille: A rat named...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for?
Search Hurst Public LibraryOr request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request