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1) Mother Land
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Jay, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship.
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Language
English
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With men safely gentled in a worldwide Liberation, the matriarchy of Nedé has risen from the ashes. Reina Pierce has never given a thought to the Brutes of old. Itching to escape her mother's finca, and desperate to keep her training and forbidden friendship a secret. Her greatest worry is which Destiny she'll choose at her next birthday. When she is selected as a candidate for the Succession instead, competing to become Nedé's ninth Matriarch,...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A meddling matriarch determined to rein her husband and two grown children into her image of what the 'perfect family' should be. When her son and daughter choose to march to the beat of their own drum, the fur begins to fly.
Author
Series
Saga of the Skolian Empire volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages : map, geneological table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A vicious hit. A vengeful enemy. A drug addled Colombian club owner. A sex crazed Italian family. And the ever powerful Lucky Santangelo has to deal with them all, while Max--her teenage daughter is becoming The "It" girl in Europe's modeling world. And her Kennedyesque son, Bobby, is being set up for a murder he didn't commit. But Lucky can deal. Always strong and unpredictable with her husband, Lennie, by her side she lives up to the family motto--Never...
7) Scorpica
Author
Series
Five queendoms volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other, and new threats to each nation rise from within. Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms,...
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English
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"Protect the weak. Safety for all. Power without virtue is tyranny. Nedé has a new Apprentice, and now Reina Pierce must come to grips with what she sacrificed to secure Matriarch Teera's favor. As secrets unfold and danger mounts, Reina will test the bounds of trust and be forced to answer the question that has haunted her since her first night in the jungle: Which is better--Gentle or Brute? And how far will she go to ensure tyranny is eradicated...
10) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...
13) A Christmas tale
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special édition].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
Français
Description
A dysfunctional family's matriarch brings everyone together at Christmas to inform them she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative in order to survive.
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