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1) Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Author
Series
Like water for chocolate volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
With more than two million copies in print, this beloved novel has become a treasured part of America's literary memory. Now, for the first time, this "tall-tale, fairy-tale, soap opera romance, Mexican cookbook, and home-remedy handbook all rolled into one" (San Francisco Chronicle) is available in trade paper with the original art from the hardcover.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (518 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Modern Family takes a refreshing and funny view of what it means to raise a family in this hectic day and age. Multicultural relationships, adoption, and same-sex marriage are just a few of the timely issues faced by the show's three wildly-diverse broods. No matter the size or shape, family always comes first in this hilariously 'modern' look at life, love, and laughter.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Seven Stories Press edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom, which he boarded alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz, a blind seven-year-old girl, and her mother board another train,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 775 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third season brings more spellbinding moments for the Pearsons. The Big Three undergo big changes as they turn 38, and another shocking family truth is revealed. As we join Jack and Rebecca on their awkward first dare, we learn more about other romances. Kevin's visit to the Vietnam village where Jack served brings revelations, Randall enters a new arena, Beth resurrects an old dream, and Kate and Toby refuse to give up on parenthood. Through...
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
7) Ferdinand
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Edition
[Widescreen ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dan is in advertising and a dedicated family man. He seems to have it all, until a younger man is hired to replace him. Before long, he is forced to be deferential to his new boss, not only in the office but also when Carter begins dating his daughter.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
10) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
11) Coco
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[U.S. edition].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
12) Paddington 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD videodisc (104 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's hundredth birthday, Paddington sees a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
461 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family,...
14) Wonder
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.
Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 491 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch George whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only sane family member, Lindsay's twin brother Michael, is...
17) Leave no trace
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. Nominated for Best Feature, Best Supporting Female, and Best Director at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.**...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (396 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As his father continues to face legal trouble, Michael Bluth runs the family business, tackling a host of legal and financial issues while trying to cope with his eccentric relatives.
19) On Golden Pond
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
20) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[English/Spanish/French subtitled version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh -- bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues -- is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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