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"The story of one family told three different ways, leading to three different fates--a dazzling debut that asks: Can a name shape the course of a life? In the wake of an enormous, history-making storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the child after him. But when...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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340 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Spanning eight decades in South Carolina's Lowcountry, Eliza Rivers fights against societal constraints, war, and family strife to protect her beloved estate, Mayfield, but as she nears the end of her life, she must make one final stand to secure its future.
3) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (143 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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From acclaimed Director Alejandro González Iñárritu comes the third film in his trilogy, BABEL, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind. Nominated for seven **Academy Awards** including Best Picture. Winner of the Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Director, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Technical Grand Prize Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.**...
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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When Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid), a widower of 8 children runs into his high school sweetheart, Helen North (Rene Russo), it's as if thirty years never passed! Helen, also a widow with ten kids of her own that include the six she and her husband adopted, feels the attraction as well. It's no wonder they rush into marriage without telling their kids. True love can conquer all-right' Unfortunately for Frank and Helen, the families don't mesh quite...
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Juno Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Taking place over a weekend visit in Los Angeles, the film watches as two first-generation Sierra Leonean American siblings navigate the changing dynamics of brotherhood after a surprise announcement. Elder brother Alhaji (Dillon Daniel Mutyaba), an aspiring actor living in Los Angeles, is visited for a weekend by his younger brother, Sheku (Omete Anassi), a second-year law student at George Washington University. Unknown to Alhaji, Sheku has come...
6) Pomegranate
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It's the elections of Donald Trump in 2016, and a young, liberal, Iraqi Muslim refugee struggles to find her footing in a neighborhood of conservative, Iraqi Christians while battling her family's fears and demands of loyalty to traditions.
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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The Lee family leave the Bay Area for a fresh start in the rural expanses of Wyoming, only to encounter hostility and xenophobia in their new community. How they confront these issues will break them - or make them stronger.
8) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1952.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Boundaries and bonds are tested in this gritty crime-drama about family, morality, and redemption. Once incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system's failings, end up in the crosshairs of a...
10) South Central
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When a respected gang member gets out of prison, he focuses his attention on becoming a good example for his 10-year-old son who has already followed in his father's old footsteps by joining a gang.
11) I'll Be There
Publisher
Relativity Media
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
An off-beat comedy about a former 80s pop star (Craig Ferguson) whose downward spiral is halted when he discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), the product of a weekend love affair.
12) Treasure
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
American journalist Ruth travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his trauma and sabotages the trip, creating unintentionally funny situations.
13) Inshallah a Boy
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws. This thriller from the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival was Jordan's Official Entry for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
14) Here We Are
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Aharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri. They live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialized home. While on their way to the institution, Aharon decides to run away with his son and hits the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this separation. Or is it, in fact, his father who is not ready?
15) A Patch of Blue
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1965.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Blind Selina D'Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) lives a life of servitude with her mother, Rose-Ann D'Arcy (Shelley Winters), who's a prostitute, and grandfather who's an alcoholic, until the day she goes to the park to string beads for extra cash. There she meets the first kind person she has ever known, Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier). The two quickly develop a deep bond, but Rose-Ann--who can see only bad in any man--tries to separate her daughter from the...
16) Ordinary People
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star in this powerful drama as the upper-middle-class couple whose "ordinary" existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son. Their younger son (Timothy Hutton), struggling against suicide and the survivor's guilt left by his older brother's drowning, begins to see a therapist (Judd Hirsch), who provides a lifeline to survival and healing for the entire family. An extraordinary motion picture,...
17) Paris, Texas
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 147 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a landscape all its own) as he tries to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother (Dean Stockwell)...
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Paradise volume 2
Language
English
Description
Secret lives and new loves emerge in the bright Caribbean sunlight, in the follow-up to national bestseller Winter in Paradise A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her...
19) Tokyo story
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 137 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple's journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director's customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu...
Publisher
Hope Runs High
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A family of theatre artists spend their last summer together at the home of their matriarch of their family before it must be sold. Then, a famous Hollywood actress arrives. From legendary New Hollywood maverick Henry Jaglom.