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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
2) Sling blade
Series
Formats
Description
After 25 years, mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from the mental hospital where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover. He gets a job and is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother, but his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
Author
Description
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the brothers. Includes the...
6) Radio
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio whom he mentors. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk.
Author
Appears on list
Description
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
10) Dumb and dumber
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money.
11) Forrest Gump
Formats
Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Seemingly by accident Forrest comes...
12) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
178 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A full-length account of the author's prize-winning New York Times story chronicles the exploitation and abuse case of a group of developmentally disabled workers, who for 25 years, were forced to work under harrowing conditions for virtually no wages until tenacious advocates helped them achieve their freedom."--
16) Knucklehead
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When his brother disappears and he is left with his abusive mother, a mentally disabled man must take his future into his own hands.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
24 pages
Description
"Everyone on Earth is different. Kids who have someone in their family with Down syndrome might wonder about their family member's unique differences. This title will help children who have questions about Down syndrome. What is it and how is their family member different? How can young readers respond to questions from their own friends about their family member? The age-appropriate text and full-color photographs presented in this sensitively written...
18) Rain man
Publisher
MVD Marquee Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young self-centered con-man learns how to love from the autistic savant brother whose skills he had intended to use in Las Vegas.
19) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
vii, 149 p.
Description
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her mentally handicapped sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
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