Martha Plimpton
1) After this
Author
Language
English
Description
Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.
While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love
Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his...
Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his...
3) Frozen II
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Why was Elsa born with magical powers? The answer is calling her and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven, she'll set out on a dangerous but remarkable journey. In the first film, Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. Now she must hope they are enough." --
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2004, ©1996.
Language
English
Description
Eighty-one year old Nat Moyer is a compulsive and fanciful talker, a feisty philosopher, and a troublemaker given to assuming personalities. His daily companion on a bench in New York's Central Park is Midge Carter, a half-blind apartment house superintendent. Midge's approach to life is realistic and down-to-earth, making him the perfect foil for Nat. With vaudevillian flair, these appealing oldsters outrageously take on the world and its multiple...
5) Parenthood
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chair for my mother: A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
Something special for me: Rosa has difficulty choosing a special birthday present to buy with the coins her mother and grandmother have saved, until she hears a man playing beautiful music on an accordion.
Music, music for everyone: Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street...
7) The goonies
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two kids find a treasure map just as they're about to lose their house. They and their friends go on a search for the treasure, but not without trouble from a few ne'er-do-wells.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake, the victim of a brutal and violent crime, Walter, an aging small-town police officer, is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation, he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover and his suspicion of her current boyfriend.
9) Mass
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Years after an unspeakable tragedy tore their lives apart, two sets of parents agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. In Fran Kranz's writing and directing debut, he thoughtfully examines their journey of grief, anger, and acceptance by coming face-to-face with the ones who have been left behind." --
Publisher
Harper Children's Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
These 36 classic stories, read directly from the text of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible by five distinguished actors are meant to "delight and inspire children before bedtime or on the go"--from publisher provided information.
11) The goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
14) Running on empty
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ever since antiwar activists Arthur and Annie Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, the Popes and their children have been on the run from the law. Now elder son Danny is 17 and he wants to stop running from a past he had nothing to do with.
15) The goonies
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, The Goonies plunges a band of small heroes into a swashbuckling, surprise-around-every-corner quest beyond their wildest dreams! Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden doubloons, the kids race to stay one step ahead of bumbling bad guys... and a mild-mannered monster with a face only...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A one night stand becomes a life-long commitment when twenty-three-year-old Jimmy Chance inadvertently impregnates a wanted felon and decides to raise Hope (aka Princess Beyonce) on his own. Jimmy, together with his family, face play dates, family photo shoots, rock star dreams, vasectomies and more in the uproariously irreverent, critically acclaimed first season." --
19) Mass
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years after the tragedy, the parents of a school shooting victim meet the parents of the shooter in an attempt to move forward with their lives."--
