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Language
English
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Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.
Illustrated with photographs from the author's...
Illustrated with photographs from the author's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Through tests, tears, and triumphs as a fire drives the Waltons from their home, John-Boy becomes a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, and Jim-Bob discovers a fact about his birth, all while Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
5) Lydia
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Living in El Paso during the 1970s, the Flores family hires an illegal maid, Lydia, to care for their crippled daughter Ceci. The instant bond between Lydia and Ceci sets the family on a shocking journey of discovery." --
7) The sisters
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Three sisters living in a college town struggle with the death of their father, while trying to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samantha Baker is ready to make the most of her sweet sixteenth birthday, but only if someone, anyone from her family would just remember it. For her birthday, she has to endure creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the beauty who stands in the way of the boy of her dreams.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Average guy Kirk can't believe his luck when, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, falls for him. Kirk is stunned and so are his friends, his family, and even his ex-girlfriend. Now, he must go to great lengths to figure out how to make the relationship work and prove to himself, and everyone else that she is not out of his league.
12) Nine Armenians
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Three generations of an Armenian-American family yell, dance, carry food around, play tambourines, rollerblade, cry, scream, laugh and support each other. When daughter, Ani, 21, travels to Armenia, she learns more of her history and troubled heritage. When she returns, she learns much from her recently widowed grandmother, Non, who teaches her how to incorporate this new knowledge into her life. In doing so, Ani empowers her mother, who embarks...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family. But the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college, decades after leaving to raise her children, a devastating accident will bring the family's history and relationships to light.
14) Going berserk
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Going berserk: John Bourgignon is a limo driver who is engaged to Nancy Reese. Her father is Congressman Ed Reese. He is running for president and crusading against cult leader Sun Yi. Misadventure and intrigue stalk John and Nancy's path to the altar.
15) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection ; 501
Language
English
Description
After having been missing for four years and presumed dead, Travis emerges from the desert near the Texas-Mexico border and collapses at a gas station. His younger brother, Walt, a billboard artist, takes him to Walt's Los Angeles home where Travis' son, Hunter, has lived with Walt and Walt's wife, Anne, since Travis and his wife, Jane, disappeared. Travis reestablishes a relationship with Hunter, finds Jane and brings about a reunion between Jane...
16) Charlie & me
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Charlie and his spunky 12-year-old granddaughter Casey are best friends. They go to the movies, play games together, and share stories. When Charlie unexpectedly gets sick, he realizes their time together is percious. He wants to teach his granddaughter so much. But Casey is a great teacher because she knows how to have fun. Her feisty spirit inspires her grandfather to live each day to the fullest.
17) Weeds: Season 7
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
New York, New High! After serving three years in the joint, the onetime suburban soccer mom is making a fresh start in New York City and going back to doing what she does best: selling pot. But when some old friends return, they could send everything up in flames.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Debbie Laramie is a preacher. Debbie and her son, Hayden, are sent from a big city church to the small town of Paradise, where Debbie finds a community in desperate need of direction and a town that has turned its back on its neediest neighbors. She tries to build a new vision for her congregation that embraces everyone, even the poor and outcast.
