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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
321 p.
Description
Gathering at their Berkshires summer home to mourn the loss of youngest sibling and journalist adventurer Leo, who was killed while on assignment in Iraq, the Frankels endure shared grief and private challenges that shape their views about family.
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.
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Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's former nurse, the little half-brother isn't allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there's Merit. Merit Voss...
24) 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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 333
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions, in this astonishing debut from Marco Bellocchio. Characterized by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, it was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema....
27) 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.
28) Buffalo '66
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
C.I.A. agent, Billy Brown, brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only Billy's not really in the C.I.A., and his "wife," Layla, is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents. In reality, Billy's whole life is an empty lie. He's fresh out of prison and now on a deadly mission to hunt down and kill the Buffalo Bills kicker whose botched field goal he believes ruined his life....
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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...
30) The violence
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"A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope. Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home. But Chelsea's husband has turned their house into a prison; he has been abusing...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded fac̦ade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream of theirs--a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he hopes will save them may destroy them instead. Half a world...
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Series
Dollanganger family series volume 8
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Continuing the events from Beneath the Attic and Out of the Attic, the prequel trilogy to the Dollanganger series comes to a riveting end with The Shadows of Foxworth, a passionate novel about Corrine Foxworth's intense desire to flee her overbearing life trapped in the Foxworth estate. Two generations before Corinne Foxworth locked her children in an attic, the life of her grandmother, a gorgeous young girl named Corrine Dixon changed forever. At...
33) Polyester
Series
Criterion collection volume 995
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Follows the life of an overweight middle-class suburban housewife as she sees her world crumble when she discovers that her husband cheats on her, her daughter is pregnant and getting an abortion, and her delinquent son is the serial foot stomper who terrorizes local women.
34) Dombey and Son
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Charles Dickens was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serial form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and...
36) Coming apart
Author
Series
Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
200 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
When Nikki's father left her family, she thought all of the screaming and fighting at home would be over, but when he returns, she calls on the support of her mother and friends to pull her through the difficult time.
39) The bronze pen
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
With her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.
40) Sam: a novel
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
316 p. ;
Description
"There is a girl, and her name is Sam. She adores her father, though he isn't around much. Her mother, Courtney, struggles to make ends meet, and never fails to remind her daughter that her life should be different. Sam doesn't fit in at school, where theother girls have the right shade of blue jeans and don't question the rules. Sam doesn't care about jeans or rules. She just loves to climb--trees, fences, walls, the side of a building. When she's...
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