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21) Twins
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Series
Description
Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only two classes with her sister! Maureen and Francine are...
22) Little women
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A leading authority in gender studies profiles American males between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, offering insight into their belief systems, relationships, and preferences, in a report that also discusses the sources of violent and deviant behaviors. By the author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History.
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Series
Description
A collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. The author describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In a spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
339 pages cm
Description
""Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." --Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset. Four millennial bright young things charge into the real world, with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two: M., our narrator, is one of the few young women at her prestigious, high-octane investment bank. To her mother's chagrin, she has...
29) Just because
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"Have you ever felt worried and excited at the same time? Have you ever had your feelings hurt but forgiven someone anyway? Have you ever thought there was more than one right answer to a question? That’s because contradictions are all around us. And they make us who we are. Filled with his trademark humor and wisdom...Matthew McConaughey has crafted a soulful and irreverent collection of life lessons that empowers readers, big and small,...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 225 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
A guide for people stuck in perpetual childhood shares lighthearted advice about navigating the adult world, from poaching a chicken and making a martini to not annoying others during breakups and resisting the urge to spend money.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
On his first vacation without his parents, eight-year-old Myron faces a scary grandfather, teasing older cousins, his first dive off the ten-foot board, and his grandmother's encouragement to write his mother daily, telling her of his adventures.
32) 56 up
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
©2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The latest installment of ITV's landmark documentary series returns to visit the people whose lives have been followed since they were just seven-years-old. [Now they are 56 years old.] The original '7 Up' was broadcast in 1964 as a one-off World in Action Special featuring children chosen from different backgrounds to talk about their hopes and dreams for the future. The series was inspired by World in Action founder editor Tim Hewat's interest...
Author
Publisher
Cross Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm
Description
A teenage girl describes how she met Matias the summer she was fourteen and was prepared to give up everything for him, how his secrets turned their innocent-seeming relationship into something much more painful, and the steps she had to take to overcome her emotional dependency to become the person she needed to be.
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