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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 24 cm.
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Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
367 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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Two decades after the tragic accident that killed their father, Theodora, Josh, and Claire return to their childhood home to confront painful realities about their incapable mother and the devoted aunt who raised them.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
5) Walking on eggshells: navigating the delicate relationship between adult children and their parents
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Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xvi, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
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Ghanaian-American Angela Appiah has checked off all the boxes for the "Perfect Immigrant Daughter." Enroll in an elite medical school. Snag a suitable lawyer/doctor/engineer boyfriend. Surround self with a gaggle of successful and/or loyal friends. But then it quickly all falls apart: her boyfriend dumps her, she bombs the most important exam of her medical career, and her best friend pulls away. And her parents, whose approval seems to hinge on how...
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Diana
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
En este libro, Vienna Pharaon nos propone un proceso de sanación muy profundo en el que vamos a comprender nuestra familia de origen, es decir, la familia y el entorno en el que crecimos, y a examinar qué cosas funcionaron (y cuáles no) en ese sistema. Ciertas disfunciones (o heridas) de esa familia de origen se manifiestan en nuestros comportamientos adultos de formas sorprendentes, desde retos en el trabajo a conflictos recurrentes en nuestras...
9) I refuse
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 23 cm
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"[A] tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim was by Tommy's side through it all. But one winter night, a chance event on a frozen lake forever changes the balance of their friendship. Now, Jim fishes alone on a bridge as Tommy drives by in a new Mercedes, and it's clear their fortunes have reversed....
10) The obsession
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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she's ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep...
11) Love you forever
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Publisher
Firefly Books
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As her son grows up from little boy to adult man, a mother secretly rocks him each night as he sleeps.
12) Vanishing acts
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Life is going well for Delia Hopkins. She has a daughter and a fiance?, and with her search-and-rescue bloodhound, she helps find missing persons. But as she plans for her wedding, she is haunted by inexplicable flashbacks to a devastating time she cannot recall.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Meet Carter. It's been years since his parents' divorce. But now, with the wedding of this younger brother, he must keep mom and dad from annihilating each other all over again. That's when the real surprises start, including a shocking revelation from his childhood "therapist", the arrival of his dad's latest wife, his own commitment issues with his gorgeous girlfriend, and confronting the sexy A.C.O.D. from his past.
14) The family Fang
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adult siblings Baxter and Annie, scarred from an unconventional upbringing, return to their family home. When their parents, performance artists famous for elaborate public hoaxes, go missing under troubling circumstances, Baxter and Annie investigate. Unsure whether it's foul play or just another elaborate ruse, nothing can prepare them for what they discover.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 22 cm.
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A journalist and mother of two formerly dependent adult children analyzes the reasons behind the current young adult generation's unwillingness or inability to pursue independence, assessing the economic and social aspects of prolonged dependency.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of...
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Jillian Slater hadn't seen her father or his mother in almost 20 years until, on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death, Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, calls and says Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd fly in to New Orleans for the burial. What Adella didn't tell her was that the apartment house bears the dead weight of a long and painful history. As an investigation into her father's...
18) See me
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Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
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Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Taking chances is part of life, but when you bet your future against the odds, it's a high-risk game. Kate Madison's stylish resale shop has been a big SoHo success, supporting her and her four kids since her husband's untimely death. Now they are grown and ready to forge lives of their own. And they all choose to play against the odds, to their mother's dismay. Isabelle, a dedicated attorney, is in line to make partner at her Wall Street firm when...
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