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Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
Author
Series
New beginnings volume 4
Language
English
Description
Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do to...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two men in an American mob hide at their cousin Roberto's bar in Glasgow and realize he's not as tough as they hoped. When they run off a debt collector for Roberto, he finds they aren't as innocent as they pretend to be.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside. Includes 13 episodes, audio commentaries, and more.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows the dysfunctional Fisher family, including widow Ruth, sons Nate and David, baby sister Claire, and the ghost of patriarch Nathaniel, as they run the family funeral parlor in Pasadena and deal with the cycle of life--birth, death, and rebirth.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Igby and his older brother, Oliver, are in the process of killing their terminally ill mother. His parents snipe at each other endlessly until his father tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital. Igby grows into a rebellious youth, gets kicked out of several boarding schools and ends up in a military academy. As Igby gets drawn further into the mind games and hypocrisy of the adult world, his already jaded outlook grows even darker....
9) Nobel son
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"PhD candidate Barkley Michaelson is a man with a big problem. Living in the shadow of his philandering, arrogant father Eli, he's never been good enough for the old man-- and that was before Eli won the Nobel Prize. So when Barkley's kidnapped on the eve of the Nobel ceremony and held for the $2 million in prize money, it's no surprise that Eli refuses to pay. Realizing that his fate rests in his own hands, Barkley decides to use his smarts and finally...