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21) Fight night
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: "You're a small thing," Grandma writes, "and you must learn to fight." Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. She has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her. And now, even as her health fails, Grandma is fighting for her family: for her...
22) Stages
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 83 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Stages is a moving and surprisingly funny vérité exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. In New York City's oldest community center, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, identity, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Down the Up Staircase tells the history of three generations of a black middle-class family against the backdrop of the three-story brownstone at 411 Convent Avenue in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. The home once belonged to its patriarch, George Edmund Haynes, a migrant from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who went on to become the first African American to earn a PhD at Columbia University and found the National Urban League. He was the first prominent...
24) On Golden Pond
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. When their daughter arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome friction that has existed for years, as Norman finds his way through anger and frustration at growing old.
25) A man called Ove
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In If it Bleeds, King gives readers four brilliant new stories sure to prove as iconic as their predecessors. Once again, King's remarkable range is on full display. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider-this time on her own. In 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. 'The Life of Chuck' explores,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life.
Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over. Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories-and her own life experiences-to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives; "intimate, textured, compassionate" (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness). The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don't always recognize. Emotional...
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Gold crown collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A late night knock at Victoria Miller's door changes her life in ways she could never have imagined. Her teenage nephew Bobby is seeking refuge from a deeply troubled and often violent home life.
34) Sarah's song
Author
Publisher
Clear Fork Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unapged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sarah searches for the perfect song to sing to her grandma--one that will make her well so they can share music and dance together again, just like they used to do. Sarah practices every day and tries different songs, but Grandma isn't getting better and the cane she's started using is not going away. Will Sarah find the perfect song? And could her song work in an unexpected way?"--Amazon.com.
35) Akin: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone...
36) My family
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans, from the father's journey to California in the 1920's, to the family struggles in modern-day America.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of four women "as they negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the perils and unease of twenty-first-century life--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. Tom does what he always does--answers the call. And therein lies either the beauty or dysfunction, (or perhaps both) of the sometimes too tight ties that bind families together"--
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1a edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage.
40) Walking on eggshells: navigating the delicate relationship between adult children and their parents
Author
Publisher
Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Using extensive interviews with people ages 25 to 70, editor Isay shows that we're far from alone in our struggles to make this adult relationship work. Isay charts a course through the confusing and often painful interactions parents and children can face, offering up groundbreaking insights and moving stories that will inspire those in even the toughest situations. You'll learn why silence really is golden, and how sometimes the smallest gesture...
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