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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. When it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is the epitome of bravery.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Description
"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 every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ana, a directionless Frenchwoman, must return to Israel to find the child she abandoned at birth. Together with her half-brother, an Israeli policeman, she discovers that her now-grown daughter will soon be forcibly evicted from a Gaza Strip settlement. Amid the explosive clashes between soldiers and settlers, can one woman now face the truth about commitment, identity, and a history that can never be buried?
10) Things to come
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
11) Maggie's passage
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eighteen-year-old Maggie runs away from her adopted Christian home after her father's tragic death. She feels the need to locate her birth mother, but when she does, she finds a mother that does not love her or want her. Maggie now finds herself living on the streets alone, broke, and scared. But God brings just the right people into Maggie's life, Max and Grace, who will help make her 'passage' to a new life in Christ a reality.
12) Four good days
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
13) The graduate
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter.
14) Sharp objects
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
15) Mermaids
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mrs. Flax is a free-spirited and unconventional woman. She's exasperating to her daughters, Charlotte, age 15, and Kate age 9. Mrs. Flax meets Lou Landsky who tries to turn the trio into a family.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (465 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Faith attempts to navigate the disillusion of her marriage, while taking on an emotionally wrenching legal medical case involving a gravely ill young boy. Into this mix, Faith is confronted by a terrible and long buried figure from her past: her mother.
17) Wild at heart
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lula knows she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend, Sailor, no matter how many times her mama tried to kill him. But when she and Sailor hit the road to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld.
18) Little women
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maleficent travels to a grand old castle to celebrate young Aurora's upcoming wedding to Prince Phillip. While there, she meets Aurora's future mother-in-law -- a conniving queen who hatches a devious plot to destroy the land's fairies. Hoping to stop her, Maleficent joins forces with a seasoned warrior and a group of outcasts to battle the queen and her powerful army.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
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