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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
[S]]hows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed...
3) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
4) The father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
5) Sin Nombre
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c. 2009
Language
English
Description
Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates
6) The judge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited follow-up to the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. The film reveals a Portokalos family secret that will bring the beloved characters back together for an even bigger and Greeker wedding.
"The sequel is a little like a bear hug from a beloved old relative..."--Los Angeles Times.
"Vardalos is wonderful, and 88-year-old Michael Constantine casually pockets every scene he's in."--Richard Roeper.
"Some elements are even...
9) The dry land
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Suffering from severe memory loss, a young man leaves a loving wife and family for a cross-country road trip with an Army buddy. But the resurfacing memories prove to be too much for him and trigger a violent breakdown that threatens the life he is fighting to rebuild.
10) Greenland
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary.
12) Nine lives
Language
English
Description
Tom Brand is a billionaire builder of skyscrapers who treats his employees like crap and neglects his second wife Lara, but he really wants to give his daughter Rebecca the best gift ever for her eleventh birthday. She loves cats; he hates them. Ready to make the supreme sacrifice, Brand visits a creepy pet store and purchases a tomcat named Mister Fuzzypants. Then, boom, an accident puts Brand in a coma and traps him inside the body of Mister Fuzzypants....
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy stars as a Southern boy transplanted to Indiana where he and his wife are raising their family. Blue-collar Jeff finds his Midwest surroundings perfect fodder for his witty musings, whether he's kicking back at a local club, knocking back a few cups of coffee at the local greasy spoon, or trying to keep his fledgling business afloat. Two-disc set includes all 18 episodes from the first season.
Publisher
Distributed by Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011], p1989
Language
English
Description
The story of a blue-collar family struggling with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money and parent's-in-law. The story circles around the Connors -- a family of five (DJ, Darlene, Becky, Roseanne and Dan). Roseanne is the mom who is being accompanied in her quest to keep the family together by her sister Jackie and various friends over the years.
15) Gotti
Language
English
Description
The story follows infamous crime boss John Gotti's rise to become the 'Teflon Don' of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr., it examines Gotti's tumultuous life as he and his wife attempt to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences.
16) Wonder
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A boy with a facial deformity, who enters a middle school after being homeschooled for his whole life, struggles to fit in and get accepted by his classmates.
17) Heaven's door
Publisher
Distributed by ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Riley, a young girl in a small town, makes an unexpected discovery--a doorway to heaven, which leads to miraculous healing powers. She hides her gift at first as her parents struggle with a separation, and her mother continues to lose her faith. Riley is soon faced with the ultimate sacrifice . . . will it change her mother's mind and bring the family back together?" -- container.
18) You again
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For Marnie, high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when her archrival comes back to haunt her as his bride. It's nice girl versus mean girl in this hysterical reunion with the one person Marnie would really like to forget. And if that weren't enough, Marnie's mom reunites with her own high school nemesis. Bonus features include bloopers, deleted scenes, behind the scenes, and more.
19) Intruders
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow's beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck (1989, 100 min.): As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces.
Great outdoors (1988, 91 min.): When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restful.