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Still mine [videorecording] / by Bujold, Geneviève.; Cromwell, James.; McGowan, Michael.; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold.Based on true events and laced with wry humour, Still Mine tells the heartfelt tale of Craig Morrison, who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife Irene. Although Morrison uses the same methods his father, an accomplished shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. He quickly gets blindsided by local building codes and bureaucratic officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill - and amidst a series of stop-work orders - Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance against all odds in a truly inspirational story.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Married people; Older couples;
© c2013., Distributed by Mongrel Media,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Conversations with Friends. by Welham, Leanne,film director.; Abrahamson, Lenny,film director.; Oliver, Alison,actor.; Kirke, Jemima,actor.; Alwyn, Joe,actor.; Lane, Sasha,actor.; Fifth Season (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alison Oliver, Jemima Kirke, Joe Alwyn, Sasha LaneOriginally produced by Fifth Season in 2022.Frances is in her early 20s and lives in Dublin, where she attends Trinity College with her best friend, Bobbi. Despite having previously dated during school, the pair have remained close, and perform poetry together occasionally. Cracks begin to appear in their relationship when they befriend successful writer Melissa, and her actor husband Nick, and start spending more time with the older couple. As Frances finds herself in an intense affair with Nick, her friendship with Bobbi – and sense of self – are challenged. Adaptation of Sally Rooney's best-selling novel.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Television series--Great Britain.;
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Ready to Retire? : The New Reality of Retirement and What You and Your Spouse Need to Know / by Green, Lyndsay.;
Includes bibliographical references.This book will explore issues that have been given short shrift by the mass media and in retirement literature. The interviewees will include the newly retired, those working part-time, and the fully retired, and represent a range of income and education levels and professional and personal circumstances. The author will also be interviewing their partners. By helping couples think about retirement the way they do, the author hopes to separate fiction from fact and free people's minds to reimagine retirement.
Subjects: Aging; Aging; Older people; Retirement; Retirement; Retirement; Role models;
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Dykette : a novel / by Davis, Jenny Fran,author.;
"An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples. Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians--prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda--invites Sasha and Jesse to their country home for the holidays, they're quick to accept. Even if the trip includes a third couple--Jesse's best friend, Lou, and their cool-girl flame, Darcy--whose It-queer clout Sasha ridicules yet desperately wants. As the late December afternoons blur together in a haze of debaucherous homecooked feasts and sweaty sauna confessions, so too do the guests' secret and shifting motivations. When Jesse and Darcy collaborate an ill-fated livestream performance, a complex web of infatuation and jealousy emerges, sending Sasha down a spiral of destructive rage that threatens each couple's future. Unfolding over ten heady days, Dykette is an unforgettable love story at the crossroads of queer nonconformity and seductive normativity. With propulsive plotting and sexy, wickedly entertaining prose, Jenny Fran Davis captures the vagaries of desire and the many devastating places in which we seek recognition"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Jealousy; Lesbian couples; Lesbians;
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A Christmas legacy : a novel / by Perry, Anne,author.;
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's former maid Gracie helps out a good friend who was unceremoniously fired. Gracie knows she has to find out what happened. At first, it seems that all is normal in the household between the couple and the elderly granny who mostly keeps to her bedroom upstairs. Gracie slowly realizes, though, that Granny is suffering from neglect--and rather than helping her, the husband and wife have decided she isn't dying fast enough.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Employees; Friendship; Household employees; Older people;
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Me three / by Juby, Susan,1969-;
Eleven-year-old Rodney is starting sixth grade at a new school after moveing to a new state. His new school is very old and smells terrible, and he's eels like his classmates seem to sort of hate him. It feels strange to him because a couple of months ago Rodney was a popular guy in his fifth-grade class. He lived in Las Vegas, with his mom, older sister and his dad, who was a professional poker player. Now his mom says they shouldn't tell anyone their real last name because of something his dad did. His dad says it's a big misunderstanding, but he's now at a rehab center for people who are having problems, like being addicted to drugs or gambling. Rodney is hopeful that the misunderstanding will be cleared up and they will all go back to their old life. But he can only keep telling himself this for so long...LSC
Subjects: School children; Families; Scandals; Moving, Household;
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Akin : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.;
Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hache to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both of them come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, and find they are more akin than they knew.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Retirees; Older people; Conflict of generations; Families; Kinship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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A Star is Born. by Wellman, William,film director.; Menjou, Adolphe,actor.; March, Fredric,actor.; Gaynor, Janet,actor.; NYX Channel (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Adolphe Menjou, Fredric March, Janet GaynorOriginally produced by NYX Channel in 1937.When a young actress (Janet Gaynor) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of stardom, a chance encounter places her under the wing of older actor Norman Maine (Fredric March). Adopting the stage name Vicki Lester, she co-stars with Norman in a major motion picture, but his success is clearly fading even as her career begins. After the couple wed, Vicki's fame continues to grow, but Norman descends into alcoholism, and she must decide between pursuing her dream and caring for him. Winner of Best Original screenplay and nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor , Best Actress, and Best Director at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Venice Film Festival**. *"One of the year's best ... good entertainment by any standards, including the artistic, and convincing proof that Hollywood need not travel to Ruritania for its plots; there is drama aplenty in its own backyard." - Frank S. Nugent, **The New York Times***Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion Pictures.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;
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Akin [sound recording] : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.; Culp, Jason,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Jason Culp.Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak-frites to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both of them come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, and find they are more akin than they knew.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Retirees; Older people; Conflict of generations; Families; Kinship;
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The heart of winter : a novel / by Evison, Jonathan,author.;
"From the author of Again and Again and Small World, a heartwarming novel about a married couple in their eighties, flashing back to tell the story of their lives across their courtship, marriage, children, and long-standing, opposites-attract love. Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together -- at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador Megs. Through the years, the Winters have fallen in and out of lockstep, and out of their haunting losses and guarded secrets, a dependable partnership has been forged. But when Ruth's loose tooth turns out to be something much more malicious, the beautiful, reliable life they've created together comes to a crisis. As Ruth struggles with her crumbling independence, Abe must learn how to take care of her while their three living children question his ability to look after his wife. And once again, the couple has to reconfigure how to be there for each other. In this big-hearted and profound portrait of a marriage, Jonathan Evison explores 70 years of big moments in subtle ways, elegantly braiding the Winters' turbulent history with their present-day battles, showing us how the oddly paired college kids became parents, fell apart and back together, and grew into the Abe and Ruth of today. Endlessly heartwarming and moving, Heart of Winter is a reminder that true love lives in small, everyday moments"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Married people; Older people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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