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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Superintendent Tennison moves among stations to head high-profile cases for the Area Major Investigation Team. In The lost child a wrenching personal decision colors her search for an abducted toddler. In Inner circles, the manager of an exclusive country club is found dead in his home, and fingers point to the residents of a local housing project. The scent of darkness finds Tennison happy in her private life, but strained at work....
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tennison relocates to the Greater Manchester Police for a stint as a community relations officer at local schools. Later she is assigned the shooting case of a young drug dealer, and she pegs a corrupt local drug lord as the killer. Somehow he stays one step ahead of her investigation. Is he getting inside information?
445) For one more day
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair, returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption.
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms." --
Author
Pub. Date
mayo de 2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Puede una sola mujer cambiar el curso de la historia? Costa Rica, diciembre de 1883. Aitana Ugarte, una joven bilbaína, desembarca en Puerto Limón para casarse por matrimonio concertado con un terrateniente de sesenta años, dueño de un cafetal en las prósperas Tierras Altas de Turrialba, a las faldas de un volcán legendario sobre el cual circula una misteriosa leyenda. Pero cuando llega a la hacienda se encuentra una tierra devastada,...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
450) Silent movie
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
None
Description
A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.
451) Off the black
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ray, an aging alcoholic, forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled teenager. As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks the teen to go to his 40th high school reunion and pose as his son.
452) The good house: DVD
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
New England realtor Hildy Good's wickedly funny tongue and seeming success mask her life's one dark truth: she enjoys her wine a bit too much. But Hildy's good at keeping it together - until, that is, a rekindled romance with high school flame Frank Getchell sets in motion a chain of events that forces a decades-in-the-making confrontation with Hildy's buried past.
453) Affliction
Pub. Date
[2003?] 1999.
Language
English
Description
When events shatter the quiet of his small town, Wade Whitehouse, with the aid of his new girlfriend, is forced to confront his past and reexamine his life.
454) The butcher boy
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father dies, Francie's becomes more despondent, culminating in the...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ted was born into a family of great wealth and privilege. After the untimely and tragic deaths of his three older brothers, Ted inherited the weight of his father's political ambitions, and served as surrogate father to the 13 children of his slain brothers. Early scandals and public displays of womanizing and drunkenness are contrasted with his stellar marks as U.S. Senator. The life and career of Teddy Kennedy is revealed through his close friends,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and from work, punctuated by recollections of sexual encounters as well as memories of her battle with alcoholism, addiction, and recovery. As she moves through the world navigating banal, familiar, and sometimes uncomfortable interactions with the familiar-faced strangers she sees daily, Williams weaves together a riveting collection of flashbacks. Her recollections...
Series
Criterion collection volume 413
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
Dr. Sanada is an alcoholic, in part due to the despair that constantly assails him as he tries to keep the inhabitants of a post-World War II Tokyo slum as healthy as possible. Food and medical supplies are scarce, the neighborhood is around an open sewer, and the only place to buy medicines is the black market-- controlled by the Yakuza. Matsunaga, a young yakuza with a violent temper, seeks Sanada's help to remove a bullet from his hand, but Matsunaga's...
460) Fictional father
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Caleb is a middle-aged painter with a non-starter career. He also happens to be the only child of one of the world's most famous cartoonists, Jimmi Wyatt. Known for the internationally beloved father and son comic Sonny Side Up, Jimmi made millions drawing saccharine family stories while neglecting his own son. Now sober, Caleb is haunted by his wasted past and struggling to take responsibility for his present before it's too late. His always patient...
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