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The boy and the gorilla / by Azúa Kramer, Jackie.; Derby, Cindy.;
This profoundly moving tale about a grieving boy and an imaginary gorilla makes real the power of talking about loss. On the day of his mother's funeral, a young boy conjures the very visitor he needs to see - a gorilla. Wise and gentle, the gorilla stays on to answer the heart-heavy questions the boy hesitates to ask his father: Where did his mother go? Will she come back home? Will we all die? Yet with the gorilla's friendship, the boy slowly begins to discover moments of comfort in tending flowers, playing catch and climbing trees. Most of all, the gorilla knows that it helps to simply talk about the loss - especially with those who share your grief and who may feel alone too.LSC
Subjects: Bereavement; Gorilla;
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Jayne Mansfield's car [videorecording] / by Bacon, Kevin,1958-; Duvall, Robert.; Hurt, John,1940-; LaNasa, Katherine.; Patrick, Robert.; Smith, Shawnee.; Thornton, Billy Bob.; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.;
Director of photography, Barry Markowitz ; production design, Clark Hunter ; editor, Lauren Zuckerman ; music, Owen Easterling Hatfield.Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Patrick, John Hurt, Shawnee Smith, Katherine LaNasa.It's 1969 in a small Alabama town, and the death of a quirky clan's long-estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families for the funeral. But do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart or expose truths that could lead to the most unexpected collisions of all?MPAA Rating: R.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Families; Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Mothers;
© c2013., Anchor Bay Entertainment,
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Northernmost / by Geye, Peter,author.;
"From the acclaimed author of Wintering: a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love. In 1897 Norway, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a harrowing disaster in the northernmost Arctic only to witness his own funeral in full swing. His wife Inger, stunned to see him alive, is slow to return his devoted affection: she'd spent countless sleepless nights convinced she had now lost both her husband and their daughter, Thea, who'd emigrated to America two years before and has yet to answer their many anxious letters. Further complicating their reconciliation, a newspaperman gets wind of Eide's miraculous survival and invites them both to the city of Tromsø so he can write what he is sure will be a bestselling story. In 2017 Minnesota, Greta Nansen, desperately unhappy, decides to leave her children in her father's care and follow her husband to Oslo, where he's on assignment, in order to end their marriage. But for reasons mystifying even to her, she travels instead to the upper fringe of Norway--to the town where her great-great grandmother Thea was born. A dual narrative told by blood relatives separated by five generations, Northernmost confronts the darkest recesses of the human heart and celebrates our astonishing ability to endure the most excruciating trials--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families;
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Criminal activities [videorecording] / by Abbott, Christopher,1986-actor.; Burd, Howard,producer.; Gathegi, Edi,actor.; Haley, Jackie Earle,1961-actor.; Haley, Jackie Earle,1961-film director.; Lowell, Robert,1917-1977,screenwriter.; Pitt, Michael,1981-actor.; Rice, Wayne Allan,producer.; Sparks, Micah(Film producer),producer.; Stevens, Dan,1982-actor.; Travolta, John,1954-actor.; Mayday Movie Productions.; Neenee Productions.; Producer's Capital Fund.; RLJ Entertainment,publisher.;
John Travolta, Michael Pitt, Dan Stevens, Jackie Earle Haley, Christopher Abbott, Edi Gathegi.A group of friends reunites at a classmate's funeral, and stumbles upon a financial opportunity that's too good to pass up. But when the investment goes south, they learn that part of their funding came from a notoriously ruthless crime boss, and now it's payback time. They have one perilous chance to the erase the debt, and if they can complete the task they just might escape with their lives.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (2.40:1) ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Crime films.; Feature films.; Gangsters; Mafia; Mafiosi; Male friendship; Usury; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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An evergreen Christmas [videorecording] / by Closshey, Charleene.; Culver, Jeremy.; Judd, Naomi.; Loggia, Robert.; Ritter, Tyler.; Stewart, Boo Boo.; ARC Entertainment (Firm);
Charleene Closshey, Robert Loggia, Tyler Ritter, Booboo Stewart and Naomi Judd.Leaving her seemingly glamorous Hollywood life on hold, Evie Lee is forced to return to her small hometown of Balsam Falls, Tennessee and her family's once-thriving Christmas tree farm to attend her father's unexpected funeral. As the eldest sibling, she finds herself executor of an estate that owes a massive inheritance tax, much to her younger brother's dismay. Torn between pursuing her music career and saving her family's legacy, she must decide what it really means to find her place in the world.MPAA Rating: PG.DVD ; anamorphic widescreen format ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Christmas trees; Christmas; Families; Fathers; Feature films.; Tree farms; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., ARC Entertainment,
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The inheritance of Orquídea Divina : a novel / by Córdova, Zoraida,author.;
"The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers. Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly's daughter, Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea's line. Determined to save what's left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador--to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back. Alternating between Orquídea's past and her descendants' present, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina is an enchanting novel about what we knowingly and unknowingly inherit from our ancestors, the ties that bind, and reclaiming your power."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Ecuadorian Americans; Families; Family secrets; Homecoming; Inheritance and succession; Magic;
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No land to light on : a novel / by Zgheib, Yara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together ... Now they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies in Amman the night before the embassy interview that would finally reunite Hadi with his parents and deliver them from a country in crisis. Hadi flies back to the Middle East for the funeral, promising he'll be gone only a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama decides to surprise him at the airport, eager to scoop him up and bring him back home. She waits, and waits. There are protests at Logan airport, and Hadi never shows up. What Sama doesn't yet know is that Hadi has been stopped at the border"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Newlyweds; Refugees; Syrians; Travel restrictions;
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Revelator / by Gregory, Daryl,author.;
"From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale about a family's mysterious religion, and the daughter who turned her back on their god. In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left by her father in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The remote hills of the Smoky Mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and upon her arrival, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the presence of the family's personal god, an entity known only as Ghostdaddy. Fifteen years later, after a tragic incident causes her to flee, Stella-now a professional moonshiner and bootleg runner-returns for Motty's funeral, only to find a mysterious ten-year-old girl named Sunny living on the property. Though she appears innocent enough, Sunny is more powerful than Stella can ever know and a direct link to Stella's buried past. Haunting and wholly engrossing, Revelator is the story of a prodigal coming home to put an end to her family's destructive faith, which summons mesmerizing voices and gives shape to the dark. It's a southern gothic tale for the ages"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Family secrets; Families;
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Red eye [videorecording (DVD)] /
Director of photography, Robert D. Yeoman ; editors, Stuart Levy, Patrick Lussier ; music, Marco Beltrami ; costume designer, Mary Claire Hannan ; production designer, Bruce Alan Miller ; visual effects supervisor, John E. Sullivan.Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Jayma Mays, Angela Paton, Laura Johnson, Suzie Plakson, Max Kasch.After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, Lisa Reisert boards the dreaded red eye for a flight back to Miami so she can make it to work the next day. On board, Lisa meets Jackson Ripner and their attraction grows. But moments after take-off, Jackson reveals that he has Lisa's father's wallet that he swiped off his desk and his real reason for being on board. Jackson needs Lisa's help to kill the deputy secretary of Homeland Security who's scheduled to stay at the Lux Atlantic Hotel, the hotel Lisa is the manager of. If she refuses to00428nam 2200157ua 45 000100180000000300060001800500170002400800410004102000
Subjects: 0448089173; Dixon, Frankl; The secret warning / by Fra; New York : Grosset & Dunlap,; 176 p. : ill. 0 The Hardy boys ;; Reading level :;
© c2006., Dreamworks Home Entertainment,
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The long call / by Cleeves, Ann,author.;
In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there-- Jacket.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Murder; Religious communities;
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