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Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
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Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert science writing, [Sandeep Jauhar] has composed a can’t-miss introduction to what has been called the Age of Alzheimer’s.” ―Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp and World War C.
A deeply affecting memoir of a father’s descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it.
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14) Touching stars
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Gayle Fortman, having built a new life for herself and her three sons at her Virginia bed-and-breakfast, agrees to let her ex-husband, Eric, spend the summer at the inn to recover from his experiences in Afghanistan and reconnect with their sons, unaware of the impact her decision will have on her own life.
15) Evelyn
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In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...
16) I love my daddy
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A father and child enjoy special time together playing on the swings, singing and dancing, having snacks, and cuddling.
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Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
18) Daddy day care
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When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious childrens academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
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The Gruffalo: A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators. Mouse invents a frightening creature, The Gruffalo, to scare them away; but what happens when he comes face-to-face with his own creation?
The Gruffalo's child: A little Gruffalo ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse.
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