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Charles Dickens's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
4) Storm rider
Pub. Date
2013
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1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Spoiled 18-yr old Dani Fieldings' world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested, and she has to go stay with her Uncle Sam. As they struggle to bond, she's given an orphaned horse to foster and train. Dani pours her affection into this horse. Dani soon realizes that truly caring about others is the answer to most of life's biggest problems. And when her uncle and friends need her most, Dani and Stormy work together to save the day and...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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224 pages ; 22 cm
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Rafael Fuentes isnt easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. Rafa's incarcerated mom is being released from jail soon, and will be coming to live with him, his sister, and their grandparents. For the first time in a while, Rafa feels a pit of...
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Michael Neugebauer Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Its visiting day, and Dad smells like peppermintyuck! If only he would wear that nice, breezy cologne that smells like hazelnut... So begins one boys brief weekly visit with his father in prison. Heres a man who gets angry, but beneath that peppermint surface is much to admire, if only you take the time to look. This richly imagined picture book explores the inner life of a boy who struggles to love a father who can be difficult to love at times....
11) Steel city
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Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Carl Lee is involved in a fatal car accident he finds himself behind bars, cut off from his life and alienated by his family. His youngest son, PJ, confused by life without his dad, is the only person to visit him. While PJ's girlfriend stays lovingly by his side and his Uncle Vic extends a helping hand, a belligerent older brother and the reality of being on his own force PJ to grow up faster than he'd like. It's not until a devastating secret...
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Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons-one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration. Shaka Senghor has lived the life of two fathers. With his first son, Jay, born shortly after Senghor was incarcerated for second-degree murder, he experienced the regret of his...
13) Fighting words
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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259 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf--her protector. But who has been protecting Suki?"--Amazon.com.
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2021.
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One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands...
16) Everyday
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 DVD videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A woman struggles to care for her four children as her husband serves a five-year prison sentence.
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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