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Amgash novels volume 1
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Shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every...
2) Daisy Darker
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After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member...
3) The judge
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
4) 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....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (343 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (42 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Life in the Griffin household is never boring, and usually never wholesome either. Episodes include Road to the Multiverse; Hannah Banana; Jerome Is the New Black; Business Guy; Extra Large Medium; and more. Bonus features include deleted scenes and featurettes. Contains language not suitable for all ages.
6) Knives out
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
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Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow--nose down, work hard, follow the rules. Sloane went the other way. Now Sloane is back, as beautiful...
8) The judge
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
10) The Fabelmans
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
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A coming-of-age story of a young man fascinated with filmmaking and its power to distill the truth about the world around him.
11) Lydia
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Picking up the characters from his GroVant trilogy, published 15 years ago, Sandlin returns to the small Wyoming town where it all began. Narrator Sam Callahan is managing the Virgin Birth Home for Unwed Mothers, while his aimless adult daughter, Shannon, is having a nervous breakdown; and his mother, Lydia, is on parole after time serverd for attempting to poison Ronald Reagan's dog. Lydia's parole requires writing the life story of centenarian,...
12) Union Square
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jenny gets a surprise visit from her sister Lucy, just as she has managed to turn her life around.
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
14) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
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Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
241 pages ; cm
Description
Descubre las valiosas ense?anzas de vida de El ?ngel de la Radio a trav?s de sus respuestas a las conmovedoras cartas que ha recibido a lo largo de su carrera. Escribir acerca de nuestras dudas, nuestros temores, nuestros problemas no es solo estrechar la mano pidiendo ayuda, sino que es una manera de comenzar a enfrentar lo que nos pasa. Es una forma de ponerse cara a cara con la verdad y empezar a ordenar nuestras vidas enfrentando lo que nos aqueja....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife Maggie applies to business school and is accepted. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited girls are...
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Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older brother, Frank. Meanwhile, Frank is busy pursuing his own passion, and avoiding their father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for...
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Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods "The Fairy Glen," and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph...
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