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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Binh has grown up not knowing his parents, an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman. In an effort to find a better life he searches for his mother in Saigon before heading to New York City and later Houston.
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"An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group's goal throughout the year is for each member to present...
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Beloved author Elizabeth Berg tells the story of the recently widowed Helen Ames and of her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa. Helen is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered and loyal husband had been leading a double life. The Ames's had saved money for a happy retirement, planned in minute detail, but that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals spent by Helen's husband before he died.
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"From the New York Times' bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college--their own kids now going to college--and what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"Having tackled a far-reaching parenting crisis with her New York Times bestselling How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims is back with an equally powerful and persuasive book for the adult children of those hovering parents-and for everyone who strugglesto be a grown-up in these challenging times"--
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Joss and Nico Carbury exemplify the modern adage that sixty is the new forty. If there is any cloud on the horizon, its their daughter, Elizabeth. Always reserved, she has never divulged the secrets of her love life. So when she arrives for Sunday lunch with a fiance? who is older than her parents, the shock is considerable. Then they are introduced to her new stepson, and all hell breaks loose.
10) As I lay dying
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As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.
11) Walking on eggshells: navigating the delicate relationship between adult children and their parents
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Publisher
Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xvi, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work -and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host-the day after...
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Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 4
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2010
Formats
Description
Mick and Megan O'Brien finally make plans to walk down the aisle, but not everyone is as happy about the upcoming wedding as they are. There's a good chance complications will keep this reunited couple from ever saying "I do."
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Publisher
Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Distraught when her youngest son, twenty-two-year-old Ben, plans to leave home, Edie, an actress, and her theatrical agent husband, Russell, are faced with an empty nest for the first time, until their two older children plan to move back in.
17) Red leaves
Publisher
IndiePix
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his wife dies, an Ethiopian immigrant living in Israel travels to see his children and discovers that his culture is disappearing from their lives.
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Pub. Date
2010
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Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 11
Pub. Date
2014
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"Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life, their parents barely support their dreams and worry for...
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