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Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
2) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her uncle agrees to pay the tuition at a private boarding school, seventeen-year-old Pearl hopes to escape the homelessness and drama of life with her mother, a former rock star who has ruined her life with drugs.
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 102 pages, 26 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mama Nadi, the owner of a brothel set in Congo, is a mother figure who keeps watch over her business, serving men from both sides of the conflict, and employing women, "ruined" by rape or torture, who are forced to work as prostitutes.
4) Kaili blues
Publisher
Grasshopper Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother's wish and sets off on a journey to look for his brother's abandoned child. His partner in the clinic, a lonely old lady, asks him to also find her former lover, giving him a photograph, a shirt, and a music cassette. On the way, Chen passes through a mysterious town where distinctions between past, present, and future appear...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 373 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Laverne & Shirley are a hilarious duo who are roommates and work together as bottlecappers at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. See the sidesplitting situations the girls get themselves into - between themselves and with friends Lenny & Squiggy and Mrs. Babish and Carmine "The Big Ragu."
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Shelia is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It's there she meets Richard, a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues, which eventually pulls in Shelia's son, Owen, and his classmate Lucy, forces them to confront the mysteries of their own lives.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Antwone Fisher, 25, is a gentle, soft-spoken seaman in the Navy. Unless he feels he's been disrespected--which prompts furious, violent outbursts that put him on the brink of a dishonorable discharge. Ordered to see a psychiatrist, eventually the story of his childhood in a foster home, where he was both beaten and sexually abused, comes out. Dr. Davenport argues that Antwone needs to deal with his past, find his family, and attain closure. For Antwone,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as the Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with the Christmas spirit. Everyone that is, except Doris Walker, his boss, who is raising her daughter not to believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as young...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 567 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were first introduced on TV's Happy Days, and their ensuing spin-off series, co-starring Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine and the rest of the Milwaukee gang, soon became a smash-hit sitcom with audiences nationwide, in one of television's all-time greatest comedies!
11) Merge: Disciple
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"MERGE Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for $26 million, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 155 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Still Pictures is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs. Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition, constructing a memoir from memories that pose questions of their own. Still Pictures begins with the image of a morose young girl on a train, leaving Prague for New York at the age of five in 1939. From her fitful early loves, to evenings...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
30 DVDs (approximately 83 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maude was first introduced as Edith Bunker's outspoken, liberal cousin on "All in the family." Her series spinoff, set in Tuckahoe, New York, centers around Maude's daily adventures at home with fourth husband Walter, divorced daughter Carol, and Carol's son Phillip. Joining in on the fun is housekeeper Florida and conservative next-door neighbor Arthur.
Publisher
OG Project LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his mother, being a better partner to his girlfriend, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. Then he's gunned down by BART officers on New Year's Day in 2009, sending shock waves...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
28 Blu-rays (approximately 4,980 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
17) Boyhood
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[Boyhood] was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason, his divorced parents, and his older sister." -- back of container.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to create a memory that will last for his son's lifetime, takes him on a road trip in a truck called Pedro. But Lito doesn't know that this might be their last trip: Mario is seriously ill. Together, father and...
Series
Publisher
Powerhouse Films Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (532 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + + 4 booklets.
Language
English
Description
It happened in Hollywood: While hospitalized, young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
Adventure in Sahara: The cruel commander of a French Foreign Legion outpost drives his men to mutiny.
Power of the press: During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's...
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