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Author
Language
English
Description
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs. " And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
x, 261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details of their lives.
47) The sisters
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Collector's ed., Standard format; 5-disc].
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 1392 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.
50) The sandlot
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the early 1960's, this comedy focuses on a fifth grader who can't throw a baseball but is recruited by the leader of a neighborhood gang to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a summer he'll never forget.
52) Post grad
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins out of control when she's forced to move back home with her eccentric family. By the time she lands her dream job, Ryden realizes it's meaningless without the man of her dreams, and the people she loves.
53) American son
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The powerful story of a young Marine who is fresh from Camp Pendleton. He is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during his four-day Thanksgiving leave back home before being deployed for active duty in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
723 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his/her own way, determined to achieve his/her "birthright."
57) Time
Series
Criterion collection volume 1109
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the fight of Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, for the release of her husband from prison where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery.
58) Singing songs
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Child abuse from the perspective of the child. When Anna, the narrator, is five years old, her mother marries a drunkard who takes a fancy to her daughters, repeatedly raping one. The mother turns a blind eye.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand by his friend or salvage his family.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
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