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"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding....
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Diana is a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life, and perhaps her sanity, on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that killed her bestfriend. Diana was a vibrant high schooler who, with her shy best friend Maureen, cut class, fantasized about boys and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. Now, however, Diana is haunted by the increasingly strained relationships she had with...
23) All about Steve
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz is smart and pretty, but a disaster that shakes news cameraman Steve to the core. Set up on a blind date with Steve, Mary thinks the chemistry is undeniable and just knows she's found her soulmate. She decides to do anything and go anywhere to be with him. Mary's escalating infatuation is encouraged by the self-serving actions of news reporter Hartman Hughes who enjoys torturing his insolent cameraman at...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
For Tom, it was love at first sight when Summer Finn walked into the greeting card company where he worked. Summer is the new administrative assistant. Although Summer does not believe in relationships or boyfriends, Tom and Summer become more than just friends. Through the trials and tribulations of Tom and Summer's relationship, Tom could always count on the advice of his two best friends, McKenzie and Paul. However, it's Rachel, Tom's adolescent...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the president and first lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter-century, as Pauli became a lawyer, a principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and a cofounder of the National Organization for Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action builds to a spectacular climax.
27) Clerks
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In Love at first sprite, Jasmine, Aladdin, and Carpet soar into the sky where they meet tiny creatures called "Sprites." But when these new friends want them to stay forever, it takes an old friend to help them out. In The dinner dance, Dopey wants to help Snow White fix a wonderful dinner for the warfs, but since he can't talk, things get a little mixed up. In Ariel's treasures, Ariel and her friends must save their kingdom when an evil spell causes...
29) My cousin Vinny
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two carefree pals (Macchio and Whitfield) traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, Vincent Gambini (Pesci) is the cousin of one of them and he is a lawyer. Vinny is a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try and has never been in court. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Tomei) to handle his first case, it's a real shock--for both Vinny...
30) Away we go
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Burt and Verona are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together and question their potential parenting abilities. They decide to move closer to Burt's parents so they can share the experience with the baby's grandparents. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that his parents are moving to Belgium the month before the baby is...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Four lifelong friends will be spending their summer separated for the first time. On a shopping trip, the young women find a pair of thrift-shop jeans that fits each of them perfectly and decide to use the pants as a way of keeping in touch over the months ahead. Each one of the friends will wear the jeans for a week to see what luck they bring to her before sending them on to the next. Though miles apart, the four friends still experience life, love...
33) Prom night
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainmentc
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Donna's senior prom was supposed to be the best night of her life. A night full of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she thought that she would be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder, there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and try to survive...
34) Old dogs
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Dan and Charlie are two best friends who, together, have built a successful marketing empire, but have somehow managed to avoid ever really grown up. Their lives have been turned upside down when they are charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of a big business deal. The clueless bachelors stumble in their efforts, leading to one debacle after another, with a gorilla and some pecking penguins. Dan and Charlie learn as much...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
When Denis, the geekiest guy in high school, proclaims his love for super-popular Beth Cooper during his valedictorian speech, everyone is speechless. But the real shock comes that night when Beth shows up at Denis's house with her two best friends to show him how the cool kids party. Beth decides to show him the best night of his life.
Publisher
Infinity Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
In search of excitement, two young men--sheltered Yale graduate Tod Stiles and tough guy Buz Murdock--traverse the famed Route 66, which stretches from Chicago to Santa Monica, where they encounter people from all walks of life. Shot entirely on location around the country.
37) Jailhouse rock
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Vince takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon he becomes an overnight sensation. As he becomes a superstar, his...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Darren is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and get tickets. Steve and Darren think that it is all a joke until a vampire named Larten Crepsley comes on stage with a very poisonous spider that he makes do tricks. Steve tells Larten he would like to join him and become an apprentice.
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, summer vacation is no day at the beach. Thanks to Troy, they are all working at a country club founded by Ryan and Sharpay's family. The club's annual talent show is right around the corner and Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. She dumps Ryan as her singing partner and starts wooing Troy to join her onstage instead. Gabriella is not very happy that Tony agreed to sing with Sharpay, instead of her....
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