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41) Equinox flower
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Ozu's splendid first color film, a stubborn businessman, who disapproves of his daughter's fiance, must learn to embrace modern romance.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s--the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career. Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery. She carries with her a packet of letters addressed to her...
Author
Description
"At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her.Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No electricity,...
44) The missing
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track...
45) Late spring
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1? booklet.
Description
A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter.
48) The auction
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a farmer's daughter comes to him and pleads for help with keeping her house after a divorce, he must decide whether or not to sell his farm and come to the aid of his daughter.
50) Meet Joe Black
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Death appears to claim a man who bargains for more time, during which Death falls in love with his daughter.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus -- who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat -- refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
52) Two by two
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Raleigh. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted...
Publisher
Empire Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Caterina moves with her family from the small town of Montalto di Castro to Rome. The sensitive and intelligent young girl enrolls in the eighth grade in one of the most prestigious schools in the capital, where she finds her class totally divided between the snobbish, radical chic and reactionary, spoiled brats. Worse, her own father, a frustrated professor, begins to manipulate her as he sees in the parents of her new school acquaintances the possibility...
54) Beach music
Author
Formats
Description
Jack McCall, a writer who moved to Rome to flee his family, returns to South Carolina where his mother is dying and makes peace with them, including Jewish in-laws he couldn't stand and who blamed him for his wife's suicide.
Author
Publisher
Cider Spoon Stories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
166 pages
Description
Raising Father is a collection of short stories told by a father and his daughter. It shares the immnese joys and devasting heartache experienced during divorce, single parenting, and running a family business. Their adventures together create a memoir that inspires hope through determination and forgiveness.
Author
Series
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
57) Crow call
Author
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
59) Towelhead
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening after moving to suburban Houston with her strict father.
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