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The juggler's children : a journey into family, legend and the genes that bind us / by Abraham, Carolyn.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Abraham, Carolyn; Abraham family.; Genes.; Genetic disorders.; Genetic genealogy.;
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The Family man [videorecording (DVD)] by Ratner, Brett; Cage, Nicolas,1965-; Leoni, Téa,1966-;
Spotlight on location: The making of the film featuring behind the scenes footage and interviews -- Feature commentary with director Brett Ratner and writers David Diamond and David Weissman -- Feature commentary with producer Marc Abraham -- Music score commentary with composer Danny Elfman -- Deleted scenes -- Outtakes -- Hi Jack montage -- Music video: Seal "This Could Be Heaven" -- Choose your fate game.Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni.PG.DVD.
Subjects: Feature films; Family life in motion pictures.; Comedy films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© 2001., Universal Pictures,
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Calm the chaos : a fail-proof road map for parenting even the most challenging kids. by Abraham, Dayna.;
"Calm the Chaos is a clearly organized, methodical approach to parenting. Dayna has created a road map to help parents find peace and meet their kids where they are at when conventional parenting tools have failed. There are five steps to calming the chaos--Getting to Safety, Restoring Trust and Energy, Finding Calm in the Moment, Getting Ahead of the Moment, and Defining Family Success. Each step employs a framework that is easy to remember, even when emotions run high: you ground yourself, you connect with your kid, you work with them to understand the catalyst and the issue at the heart, and then together you get curious about finding an empowered solution. Backed by science and tested by hundreds of thousands of families, Calm the Chaos is a revolutionary road map complete with in-the-trenches stories, scripts, prompts, and worksheets that make it simple for parents to build a safe home and support healthy kids"--Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Conflict Resolution; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child;
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The farewell [videorecording] / by Awkwafina,1989-actor.; Ma, Tzi,actor.; Melia, Daniele,film producer.; Perez-Abraham, Gil,actor.; Wang, Lulu,film director,screenwriter.; Videoville Showtime,film distributor.;
Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Gil Perez-Abraham.Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds there's a lot to celebrate.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Families; Terminally ill; Grandmothers;
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The farewell [videorecording] / by Awkwafina,1989-actor.; Ma, Tzi,actor.; Melia, Daniele,film producer.; Perez-Abraham, Gil,actor.; Wang, Lulu,film director,screenwriter.; Videoville Showtime,film distributor.;
Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Gil Perez-Abraham.Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds there's a lot to celebrate.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:0 aspect ratio) ; Dolby TrueHD 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Families; Terminally ill; Grandmothers;
For private home use only.
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Thirteen ghosts [videorecording]. by Elizabeth, Shannon; Abraham, F. Murray;
Shannon Elizabeth, F. Murray Abraham.Director, Steve Beck.DVD.CHVRS rating: 18A.What a house! It's all steel and glass and elegance and it all belongs to Arthur Kriticos and his family as an unexpected inheritance. You could say it's their dream home. Especially if the dreams are nightmares. The house itself is a design marvel and a mysterious puzzle cube whose eerie corridors, sliding walls, spinning floors and phantasmic fiends may allow no escape.
Subjects: Horror.; Horror.;
© 2010., Warner Bros.,
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Ancestry : a novel / by Mawer, Simon,author.;
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea. Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city. George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known, the unbreakable bond of family.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mawer, Simon; Census; Families; Genealogy;
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Mad men. [videorecording] / by Abraham, Phil.; Hamm, Jon,1971-; Hendricks, Christina,1975-; Jones, January,1978-; Moss, Elisabeth,1983-; Slattery, John,1963-; Weiner, Matthew.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Lions Gate Television (Firm);
Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser.The beginning of the end for television's most celebrated show, four-time Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of three consecutive Golden Globes. Set in the captivating world of 1960s New York, it continues to follow iconic ad man Don Draper, his colleagues and his family.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Advertising agencies; Advertising; Businessmen; Competition (Psychology); Corporate culture; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen sixties; Television programs.;
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The covenant of water : a novel / by Verghese, Abraham,1955-author.;
"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl--and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi--will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Drowning; Families;
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888 love and the divine burden of numbers / by Chang, Abraham,author.;
"Young is an American Born Chinese (ABC) growing up in Queens and has been told by his beloved Su Su (uncle) that one has only seven great loves in a lifetime. Young's childhood is marked by an obsessive love of comics, music, and movies ... as well as a parade of school-yard crushes, tantalizing pen-pal exchanges, and a lasting infatuation with Winona Ryder. But, at the end of 1995, when Young is a sophomore at NYU, he meets Erena-brilliant, charismatic, quick-witted, and crassly funny. They fall in love and, for Young, it feels so real that he's thrilled and terrified that it could be his lasting love number seven. Interspersed through Young and Erena's story are flashbacks to various points in the 80s and early 90s where we meet Young's great loves one through five. Written with the pop culture fluency of High Fidelity, the tender family drama of Everything Everywhere All at Once, the literary scope of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and with a bombastically sweet style all his own, Abraham Chang's 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers is a monumental debut that will be read for years to come"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Chinese Americans; Love; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen nineties;
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