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Publisher
Hannover House
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Willadean Winkler, the wife of a blue collar truck driver, does her best to manage and survive in the abusive prison her husband has built for her. With the help of her best friend, LaSonia, who lives in the trailer next door, and the musical encouragement of a mystical blues singer, Willadean fights to break the tragic cycle.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his mother, being a better partner to his girlfriend, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. Then he's gunned down by BART officers on New Year's Day in 2009, sending shock waves...
4) Paradise
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a nearly fatal accident, 21-year-old Lamb Mannerheim is beginning to realizethat the world is much bigger than her small, God-fearing Montana town. Armed with a big, fat insurance payout and a checklist of untried sins, Las Vegas is the only place for her first taste of temptation. And, with the help of a few new friends, Lamb embarks on an oddball odyssey of lost souls, broken faith, and cheap cocktails.
5) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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6) Allegiant
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
11) The Journeyman
Author
Language
English
Description
Orphaned since he and his brother were boys, a man tries to find and redeem the other who is now an outlaw in the Wild West.
12) Paradise
Author
Language
English
Description
After a nearly fatal accident, Lamb Mannerheim realizes that the world is much bigger than her small, God-fearing Montana town and heads to Las Vegas!
13) Jesus People
Author
Language
English
Description
When Pastor Jerry gets some troubling news, he sets out to create a contemporary Christian pop group that will reach his son - before his teenager dies and goes to hell.
Author
Language
English
Description
Frank, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. A heartfelt, nostalgic and gently humorous story about a chance encounter in which one man's dreams become another man's destiny.