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41) 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...
Author
Publisher
Scarlet
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Haunted by a dysfunctional childhood full of dark secrets, including the suspicious death of his younger sister, Jeremy Horton, after the death of his estranged mother, returns home where his unwelcome presence dredges up nameless cruelties and shameful secrets, putting everyone on edge.
43) Unstrung heroes
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy needs a break from the pressures of his parents' household, and moves in with his eccentric uncles.
Author
Series
Shopaholic series volume 9
Formats
Description
"Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) has returned from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and work in a gift shop. Life is good, especially now that Becky takes time every day for mindfulness...which actually means listening to a meditation tape while shopping online. When Becky's parents ask her to host Christmas this year, what could possibly go wrong--besides menu and gift demands and the appearance of an old boyfriend? But as the...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a handsome exchange student named Veit arrives for a two-week stay with the dysfunctional van End family, each household member confronts his or her own insecurities, doubts, fears, and desires, led by the former wallflower Eva, who embarks on the most dramatic transformation of all.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lynn and her three youngest children attend the wedding of her estranged eldest son at her parents' Annapolis estate. Though she is hoping for a joyful reunion, her attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course when she is hurled into the center of touchy family dynamics.
47) Here I am
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am." Later, when Isaac calls out, "My father!" to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, "Here I am." How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to...
48) The latecomer
Author
Appears on list
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and theupending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their parents....
49) The daytrippers
Series
Criterion collection volume 1001
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
A woman enlists her dysfunctional family to help her discover the truth after she finds a love letter written to her husband.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 462 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The fetching collection of 21 uncensored episodes, in which Peter and Quagmire make beautiful music together, Stewie is reborn into a wealthy British household, and the griffins mourn the tragic death of their beloved mutt. (No, not Meg.) It's a dog-gone hilarious complete season.
51) The Fabelmans
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
A coming-of-age story of a young man fascinated with filmmaking and its power to distill the truth about the world around him.
52) Lydia
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
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,...
Author
Appears on list
Description
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series....
54) Scared stiff
Author
Description
Overview: Rick and Kenny's Pa was right -- troubles really do happen in threes. First Pa's truck was robbed, then Pa ran off, leaving Rick, Kenny, and Ma to fend for themselves, and now Ma has disappeared, too. Rick just knows Ma would never leave them on purpose -- but then, where is she? Waiting in Uncle Henry's trailer park doesn't seem like the best way to find out. Instead, the brothers, along with their new friends, Connie and Julie, decide...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who is beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is about to be impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life carefully negotiating her parents' conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, decadent, liquor-soaked life of her father. As she grows into...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 595 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is, well, he might actually be black,...
57) 1985
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
Returning home for Christmas after a three-year absence, a closeted gay man struggles with coming out to his family.
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't...
60) 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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