Martha Plimpton
Author
Language
English
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Down Syndrome Awareness Month
If you like Barbara Kingsolver, try…
Life in the White Coat
Siblings (Fiction)
If you like Barbara Kingsolver, try…
Life in the White Coat
Siblings (Fiction)
Description
Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as...
2) AFTER THIS
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their children.
3) Mrs. Kimble
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows twenty-five years in the life of a charismatic opportunist as seen through the eyes of his three wives.
5) Frozen II
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Why was Elsa born with magical powers? The answer is calling her and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven, she'll set out on a dangerous but remarkable journey. In the first film, Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. Now she must hope they are enough.
6) Mass
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Years after an unspeakable tragedy tore their lives apart, two sets of parents agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. In Fran Kranz's writing and directing debut, he thoughtfully examines their journey of grief, anger, and acceptance by coming face-to-face with the ones who have been left behind"--Container.
7) The goonies
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two kids find a treasure map just as they're about to lose their house. They and their friends go on a search for the treasure, but not without trouble from a few ne'er-do-wells.
8) Retribution
Author
Language
English
Description
When an elite prosecutor faces the most lethal predator she's ever encountered, it all comes down to a choice between justice and retribution.
9) The goonies
Language
English
Description
The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of two women who search for meaning in lost loves and missed chances. As one monther looks to her past to gain the strength to face the future, a daughter investigates the emotional wounds which have kept her from finding love. Their stories come together in surprising and deeply moving ways.
11) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007, c1989]
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
12) Mass
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Years after an unspeakable tragedy tore their lives apart, two sets of parents agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. In Fran Kranz's writing and directing debut, he thoughtfully examines their journey of grief, anger, and acceptance by coming face-to-face with the ones who have been left behind.
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake, the victim of a brutal and violent crime, Walter, an aging small-town police officer, is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation, he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover and his suspicion of her current boyfriend.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk, " and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
16) Beautiful girls
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A 10-year high school reunion creates some surprises for a group of friends.
17) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A one night stand becomes a life-long commitment when twenty-three-year-old Jimmy Chance inadvertently impregnates a wanted felon and decides to raise Hope (aka Princess Beyonce) on his own. Jimmy, together with his family, face play dates, family photo shoots, rock star dreams, vasectomies and more in the uproariously irreverent, critically acclaimed first season.
19) Running on empty
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ever since antiwar activists Arthur and Annie Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, the Popes and their children have been on the run from the law. Now elder son Danny is 17 and he wants to stop running from a past he had nothing to do with.
20) Another woman
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When a distinguished philosophy professor turns 50, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of her life. But the deeper she digs the more her life seems to unravel, until she realizes that her search for truth is a personal odyssey of self-examination, discovery and acceptance.