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The way back [videorecording] / by Affleck, Ben,1972-actor.; Carpani, Rachael,1980-actor.; Da'Vinchi,actor.; Gage, Lukas,actor.; O'Connor, Gavin,film director.; Gavankar, Janina,1980-actor.; Gregg, Melvin,actor.; MacArthur, Hayes,1977-actor.; Ratchford, Jeremy,actor.; Turman, Glynn,actor.; Watkins, Michaela,1971-actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,film distributor.;
Music by Rob Simonsen ; edited by David Rosenbloom ; production designer, Keith P. Cunningham ; director of photography, Eduard Grau.Ben Affleck, Janina Gavankar, Michaela Watkins, Da'Vinchi, Hayes Macarthur, Rachael Carpani, Glynn Turman, Lukas Gage, Melvin Gregg, Jeremy Ratchford.Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past and set him on the road to redemption?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Sports films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Alcoholics; Basketball players; Basketball; Coach-athlete relationships; Basketball coaches; Redemption;
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The way back [videorecording] / by Affleck, Ben,1972-actor.; Carpani, Rachael,1980-actor.; Da'Vinchi,actor.; Gage, Lukas,actor.; O'Connor, Gavin,film director.; Gavankar, Janina,1980-actor.; Gregg, Melvin,actor.; MacArthur, Hayes,1977-actor.; Ratchford, Jeremy,actor.; Turman, Glynn,actor.; Watkins, Michaela,1971-actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,film distributor.;
Music by Rob Simonsen ; edited by David Rosenbloom ; production designer, Keith P. Cunningham ; director of photography, Eduard Grau.Ben Affleck, Janina Gavankar, Michaela Watkins, Da'Vinchi, Hayes Macarthur, Rachael Carpani, Glynn Turman, Lukas Gage, Melvin Gregg, Jeremy Ratchford.Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past and set him on the road to redemption?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format ; Dolby Atmos TrueHD 5.1 ; Dolby digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Sports films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Alcoholics; Basketball players; Basketball; Coach-athlete relationships; Basketball coaches; Redemption;
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Elvis, me, and the lemonade stand summer / by Gentile, Leslie,1959-;
"It's the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But eleven-year-old Truly knows Elvis is alive and well and living in her trailer park. It's a busy summer. Though Truly's mother is constantly drinking, smoking, and juggling new boyfriends, Truly is determined to raise money for herself through her lemonade stand, and to prove that her cool new neighbour is the King of Rock 'n' Roll. And when she can't find motherly support in her own home, she finds sanctuary with Andy El, the Salish woman who runs the trailer park."--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Lookalikes; Trailer camps; Children of alcoholics; Single-parent families;
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Shark teeth / by Winston, Sherri.;
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Subjects: Alcoholism; Middle schools; Schools; African Americans; Dysfunctional families;
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The secret sheriff of sixth grade / by Sonnenblick, Jordan.;
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty much the same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better.LSC
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Children of alcoholics; Dysfunctional families; Middle schools; Bullying; Friendship;
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Give them Lala / by Kent, Lala,author.;
"The Vanderpump Rules provocateur opens up about her rocky road to fame and sobriety in this collection of humorous and brutally honest essays"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Kent, Lala.; Vanderpump rules (Television program); Women television personalities; Women alcoholics; Reality television programs;
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Random Road : introducing Geneva Chase / by Kies, Thomas,author.;
"It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper. The Sheffield Post headline shouts, "Cops Call Murder Scene Slaughterhouse." On the scene, Genie spurs the Deputy Police Chief to tell her quietly, "Six bodies ... all nude ... hacked to pieces." Even tough Geneva shivers. How could such a slaughter happen on Connecticut's moneyed Gold Coast? To privileged couples inside a historic 1898 Queen Anne mansion on the shoreline of Long Island Sound? Where is the protection afforded by the gated community and the security technology in place? For Geneva, battling alcoholism and bad choices, writing this story is the last chance to redeem herself. She's lost every other major news job she's had. Working at her hometown newspaper is the end of the line - there will be nowhere else to go. But ink still flows thick in her veins. Her story on Sheffield's unlikely killing field is the Post's lead, soon picked up by metro papers, and she keeps it there, exposing the turbulence beneath the rich and entitleds' secrets, their ability to buy off embarrassments. She's also tracking community connections, watching a hit-and-run case disappear through a large donation, interviewing dangerous suspects, visiting a swingers' club, joining cops for a burglary bust, and taking a guided tour to spot history's underwater ghost. All this despite the distractions of the married man she can't quite ditch and the sweet-if-shaky love affair she starts with an old high school sweetheart. Can she keep her drinking under control and do her job well enough to keep from getting fired, finish the story, not further screw up her life? And not get killed? Thomas Kies' gripping first novel with its corkscrew of a plot, asks, "Do things happen for a reason, or is everything random?""--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women journalists; Murder; Recovering alcoholics; Rich people;
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The urge : our history of addiction / by Fisher, Carl Erik,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction-a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives-by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Fisher, Carl Erik,; Addicts; Alcoholics; Alcoholics; Psychiatrists;
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Shuggie Bain / by Stuart, Douglas,1976-author.;
"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a "whoremaster" of a husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good-her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits-all the family has to live on-on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to look after her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. He is meanwhile doing all he can to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that Shuggie is "no right," and now Agnes's addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her-even and especially her beloved Shuggie. A heartbreaking novel of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Children of alcoholics; Family secrets; Mothers and sons; Working class families;
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The trouble up north / by Mulhauser, Travis,1976-author.;
"An atmospheric, haunting novel about a family of bootleggers, their troubled history, and the land that binds them. The Sawbrooks have lived on prime real estate on the lakes of Michigan since before there was prime real estate. A family of smugglers and bootleggers, every man, woman, and child in each generation has been taught to navigate the nooks and crannies of the rivers and highways that flow in and out of Canada. The hidden routes are the family's legacy. But today, the Sawbrooks are deeply fractured, and the money that's sustained the family is running out. Edward, the Sawbrook patriarch, is dying from cancer, and his wife, Rhoda, is bitterly disappointed in her three adult children. The eldest daughter, Lucy, is now a park ranger, working to federally protect the land against her mother's will; the middle son, Buckner, hasn't been the same since he came back from the army suffering from alcoholism; and the youngest daughter, Jewell, is wasting her potential as a card player and bartender. When Jewell is asked to commit a crime for a major insurance payout, she agrees, eager for the cash, but too late, she realizes that that the boat she torched wasn't empty ... Together, the Sawbrooks will have to contend with the old, familial ways and the new, shifting world, and face each other-and their pain-filled past-to smuggle one more thing through and out of their land to safety"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Alcohol trafficking; Arson; Families; Murder;
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