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4) I hate kids
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Nick Pearson is a successful author, notable for his writings about how kids ruin relationships. He is about to settle down with his perfect mate. However, on the night of their rehearsal dinner, a thirteen-year-old boy shows up claiming to be his son." --
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tom Bates has returned to Jordan, Ohio, after 18 years, rekindling the gossip that he fathered an illegitimate baby before he left. Mary Hagen, the now-grown subject of those rumors, soon finds herself an unwitting target for the town's malicious whispers and lies. So when her mother dies without explaining her past, a tormented Mary turns to Tom for the truth about a scandal that ruined her life before it ever began.
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's and Sons
Pub. Date
1925.
Language
English
Description
An aging shipbuilding executive, referred to as "Old English," dotes on his grandchildren by an illegitimate son. To overcome debts and assure the children's financial future, he engages in a shady business deal. To escape the wrath of enemies he ultimately commits suicide by defying a doctor's orders and eating a sumptuous gourmet meal. --Based on synopsis at fandango.com.
7) The old maid
Author
Publisher
D. Appleton-Century Co
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
This is a dramatic version of an Edith Wharton novel set in the 19th century. The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her - the beautiful, upstanding Delia - and her true mother, her plain, unmarried "aunt" Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly...
Series
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"The product of a forbidden love affair, Juan de Dios is taken away and abandoned by his mother's sister to an orphanage at birth. Reunited with his father as an adult, he swears an oath of revenge on his father's deathbed and changes his name to Juan de Diablo. When he returns to Mexico to fulfill his oath, he is torn between twin sisters, the passionate Aimee and the virtuous Regina who turn out to be the daughters of his most hated enemy." --
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 19th century, the illegitimate son of a British aristocrat, Benjamin Blake, is forced into servitude by a wicked uncle. As a rebellious young man, Benjamin falls for a beautiful aristocrat and is beaten as punishment. Fleeing his tyrannical uncle, Benjamin stows away on a ship and lands on an idyllic South Pacific island. There he romances an exotic native beauty and earns a fortune diving for pearls with a fellow shipmate. But Benjamin's...
10) Two lives
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Europe 1990. The Berlin Wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany but having lived in Norway for the last 20 years, is a 'war child' - the result of a romance between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to testify in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the...
11) Bleak House
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light...