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21) Fairfield Road
Publisher
[Hallmark Channel]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Noah McManus is a young politician who loses a high-powered job when his boss is entangled in a scandal during a Senate race. Adding to his grief, he loses his fiance the same day. Feeling overwhelmed, Noah takes his dog and escapes to a small town in Massachusetts called Harpswell. There, he falls for a bookstore owner and the town itself, and he begins to find a sense of purpose and belonging that has been absent from his life.
22) Parasite
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option--with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma riding...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life and perfect job vanishes when she goes from a six-figure career to unemployment, and, forced to do some soul searching, becomes an author.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Talladega nights (108 min., 2006): NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Ricky and Cal for the...
27) My man Godfrey
Language
English
Description
Pair of classic thirties comedies turn disasters like the Depression, alcoholism, crime, death, and bad choices, into health, wealth, and happy romantic endings.
Publisher
Image/Madacy Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Father's little dividend: In this sequel to Father of tthe Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, a fact her father will have to come to grips with in this hilarious family tale.
Meet John Doe: A reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) writes a fictitious column about someone named "John Doe," who is distraught at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. The newspaper then hires...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"All is fair in love and lust in ... [this] tale of two brothers, four women, and the business of desire"--
Unlike their younger brother Andre, whose star as a comedian is rising, neither Dwayne nor Brick Duquesne is having luck with his career--and they're unluckier still in love. Former child star Dwayne has just been fired from his latest acting role and barely has enough money to get by after paying child support to his spiteful former lover,...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jobless and forced home to Wisconsin, journalist Sabrina Monroe can tolerate reunions with frenemies and kisses from old boyfriends but not the literal ghosts that greet her in this heartwarming tale of the power of love and connection from acclaimed author Amy E. Reichert. For Sabrina Monroe, moving back home to the Wisconsin Dells-the self-described Water Park Capital of the World-means returning to the Monroe family curse: the women in her family...
Author
Publisher
Radar, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of A Street Cat Named Bob, Nala's World, and Felix the Railway Cat: This is the story of Travis Nelson, his deaf Norwegian Forest cat, Sigrid, and their adventures on two wheels. When Travis Nelson arrived in London, he expected to embark on a new life and a new job. Coming from California, he'd uprooted his wife and his cat, Sigrid, and planned to be here for the long haul. Then Covid-19 struck. Travis's new job vanished as the...