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1) Sea people
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young Amanda discovers that an elderly couple, John and Bridget have an enchanted and mysterious relationship with the sea.
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A desperate search for income leads writer Francesca to Chicky, a spunky, red-haired octogenarian who wants Francesca to write the memoirs of her parents, Joe and Ellie, who toured the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s. Francesca is reluctant to take the job, but Chicky's tales soon lure her into a showbiz era as irresistible and unlikely as the love story that unfolds.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
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"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
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"A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write aletter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery....
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 203, 18 p. ; 21 cm.
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"Married Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today's most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose; her unflinching examinations of family relationships. Here are stories that range widely across generations and classes, exploring the private and public lives of unforgettable...
8) My family
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
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1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans.
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages ; 21 cm.
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"On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. "Three elderly widows and one old man who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely. What...
10) Helen's birds
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Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
For as long as Saanvi can remember, she has been friends with her elderly neighbor Helen. They play cards and garden together and, especially, care for the wild birds that visit Helen's yard. When Helen dies suddenly, a "For Sale" sign goes up, and movers arrive, emptying the house of its furniture and stripping the yard of its birdfeeders. The sparrows and hummingbirds disappear.
11) A man called Ove
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
13) July and August
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 322 p. ; 25 cm.
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Over the course of a summer, members of a large New England family arrive at spinster Aunt Lily's large and gracious home in Towne, Massachusetts, bringing with them high drama, romance, lucrative financial dealings, and possible tragedy.
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From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create. People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace....
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life.
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Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting...
18) A man called Ove
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ove is the block's grumpy old man who enforces strict neighborhood rules and whom every body avoids. One ordinary day a new family is moving in next door to Ove and accidentally backs into his mailbox. Turns out there is an unexpected friendship that blooms out of it.
19) Raja
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in comtemporary Marrakech, Raja explores the relationship between a wealthy middle aged Frenchman and a nineteen year old orphaned Moroccan girl. Disparities in race, economic status and language complicate the older man's pursuit of the younger girl.
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"After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land--his time, his health, his family--with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts and fears about The Plan--the detailed blueprint for high school that will help her...
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