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41) Aloft
Author
Formats
Description
A visit from his daughter and her fiancé from Oregon prompts Jerry Battle to reassess his life, his family relationships, his professional success, and his disengagement from those around him, as he reflects on his professional success and his love of flying solo, in a novel set in an upper-middle-class suburban Long Island community.
42) Thomas Murphy
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 20 cm
Description
An aging poet contemplates the later chapters of his life while avoiding trips to the neurologist, spending time with his grandson, and falling for a blind woman less than half his age.
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
898 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late.".
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002-c2003
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's tough times in Jersey for Tony Soprano. The sluggish economy hasn't been good for the family business. His wife, Carmela, is angling for more financial security. Some long-time lieutenants aren't happy with Tony's recent decisions. A rival boss wants a bigger piece of the suburban pie. A Soprano is actually heading to trial for the first time in decades. At least one child has lost interest in higher education.
47) Daddy long legs
Pub. Date
[2005], ©1955
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
48) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (6 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm)
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After losing his twin to a drowning accident and his wife to divorce, Zeke Cooper leaves his mother and two daughters behind in Tennessee and travels to Virginia horse country, where he considers his responsibility to repair his fractured family.
50) Uncut gems
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
51) Brad's status
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
52) Wakefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
54) Wilson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
55) Stationary bike
Author
Pub. Date
℗2006
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (approximately 90 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Commercial artist Richard Sifkitz, alarmed by his high cholesterol level, buys a stationary bike for exercise and puts his talents to use by painting a scenic wall mural on the wall opposite it. The mural, however, turns out to be more than just an ordinary picture, and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go but can't stay away from.
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