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The outrun [videorecording] / by Brocklehurst, Sarah,film producer.; Dillane, Stephen,1956-actor.; Elouahabi, Nabil,actor.; Essiedu, Paapa,1990-actor.; Fingscheidt, Nora,1983-film director,screenwriter.; Hoyle, Izuka,actor.; Lewis, Daisy,screenwriter.; Liptrot, Amy,screenwriter.; Lowden, Jack,1990-film producer.; Lyle, Lauren,1992-actor.; Norris, Dominic,film producer.; Reeves, Saskia,actor.; Ronan, Saoirse,1994-film producer,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Liptrot, Amy.Outrun.; Arcade Pictures,production company.; BBC Film (Firm),production company.; Brock Media,production company.; MBK Productions,production company.; Protagonist Pictures (Firm),production company.; Screen Scotland,production company.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm),presenter.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Stage 6 Films,presenter.;
Music by John Gürtler & Jan Miserre ; editor, Stephan Bechinger ; director of photography Yunus Roy Imer.Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Saskia Reeves, Stephen Dillane.Based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot, The Outrun is set in the otherworldly Orkney Islands of Scotland. A brutally honest drama about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life and renew hope. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery. Slowly the mystical land enters her inner world and one day at a time Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: R, for language and brief sexuality.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD, region 1; anamorphic wide screen (2.39:1); Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Mentally ill; Recovering alcoholics; Women alcoholics;
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Stray : a memoir / by Danler, Stephanie,author.;
"From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots of her inability to feel were deep in her childhood. With some hope of finally facing down her past--of looking clearly at her parents and what she did and did not inherit from them--she returned to California after a decade away, a decade in which she'd honed the practice of apathy. Stray is an account of that remarkable emotional journey. We meet her mother: a depressed alcoholic, now mentally and physically handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm and living in squalor; and her father: once a successful businessman, now a constantly relapsing crystal meth addict living in halfway homes and shelters. And we are with the author as she remembers and relives the most difficult events of the ten years since she left "home"--betrayals and infidelities, her own problems with drinking, an affair with a married man whose darkness mirrored her own--and as she discovers the bounds of forgiveness, of her parents, but especially of herself"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Danler, Stephanie.; Authors, American; Women authors, American; Children of alcoholics; Children of drug addicts;
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The wildest sun : a novel / by Lemmie, Asha,author.;
"When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he is iconic. She desperately yearns for his approval, as both a daughter and a writer, convinced that he holds the key to who she's truly meant to be. But what will happen if she is wrong, or if her real story falls outside of the legend of her parentage that she's revered all her life? The Wildest Sun is a dazzling, unexpected, and transportive story about coming into adulthood--from escaping our pasts, to the stories we tell ourselves, to the ambition that drives us--as we seek to find out who we are."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961; Authors; Children of alcoholics; Fathers and daughters; Mothers; Nineteen forties; Paternity; Teenagers; Voyages and travels; Women authors;
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Shameless. [videorecording] / by Abbott, Paul,creator.; Cutkosky, Ethan,1999-actor.; Fisher, Noel,1984-actor.; Hampton, Shanola,actor.; Howey, Steve,actor.; Isaiah, Christian,actor.; Kenney, Emma,1999-actor.; Macy, William H.,1950-actor.; Miner, Kate,actor.; Monaghan, Cameron,actor.; Wells, John,1956-creator.; White, Jeremy Allen,actor.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
William H. Macy, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney, Cameron Monaghan, Noel Fisher, Christian Isaiah, Kate Miner.The tenth season picks up six months after last season's finale: Frank uses his leg injury to collect as many prescription drugs as possible and his exploits lead him to an old friend.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television comedies.; Dark comedy television programs.; Television programs.; Alcoholic fathers; Alcoholics; Children of alcoholics; Dysfunctional families;
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Shameless. [videorecording] / by Macdonald, Iain B.,television director.; Wells, John,1956-screenwriter.; Macy, William H.,1950-actor.; Rossum, Emmy,1986-actor.; White, Jeremy Allen,actor.; Cutkosky, Ethan,1999-actor.; Hampton, Shanola,actor.; Warner Bros. Television,production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney, Cameron Monaghan, Noel Fisher, Isidora Goreshter.Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single working mom, as Carl gets creative finding tuition money after he loses his scholarship.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Dark comedy television programs.; Television programs.; Alcoholic fathers; Alcoholics; Children of alcoholics; Dysfunctional families;
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Beautiful things / by Biden, Robert Hunter,1970-author.;
"When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today-a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Biden, Robert Hunter, 1970-; Children of presidents; Alcoholics; Drug addicts;
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Filthy beasts : a memoir / by Hamill, Kirkland,author.;
"A riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family's deep flaws and his own long-buried truths."--A writer for Salon and The Advocate reflects on how his newly divorced mother moved her family to her native Bermuda, leaving him and his young brothers home to fend for themselves while she chased nightlife and suitors.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Hamill, Kirkland.; Children of alcoholics; Children of the rich; Coming of age.; Dysfunctional families; Gay men; Mothers and sons;
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The last house on Needless Street / by Ward, Catriona,author.;
"In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Alcoholics; Cats; Child abuse; Dysfunctional families; Fathers and daughters; Murder; Neighbors; Recluses; Secrecy; Serial murders; Sisters; Teenage girls;
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A million little pieces [videorecording] / by Lewis, Juliette,actor.; Taylor-Johnson, Aaron,1990-actor,screenwriter.; Taylor-Johnson, Sam,1967-film director,screenwriter.; Thornton, Billy Bob,actor.; Young, Odessa,1990-actor.; Momentum Pictures,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Music, Atticus Ross ; editor, Martin Pensa ; director of photography, Jeff Cronenweth.Aaron Taylor-johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young, Juliette Lewis, Dash Mihok, Charles Parnell, Ryan Hurst.An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for drug material, language throughout, some graphic nudity and sexual content.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Drug addiction; Drug addicts; Drug addicts;
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Fairy tale : a novel / by King, Stephen,1947-author.;
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Children of alcoholics; Doorways; Good and evil; High school students; Human-animal relationships; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Multiverse; Older people; Teenagers;
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