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2) Monstrous
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A terrifying new horror awaits Laura and her seven-year-old son Cody when they flee her abusive ex-husband and try to settle into a new life in an idyllic and remote lakeside farmhouse. Still traumatized, their physical and mental well-being are pushed to the limit as their fragile existence is threatened.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
xix, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Meg Meeker, M.D., acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, now turns to an equally powerful relationship in the family: the one between mother and son. From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs her simultaneously pushes her away. Calling upon thirty years of experience as a pediatrician, Meg Meeker, M.D., a highly sought after national speaker,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress...
5) Home
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marvin is skateboarding home from prison after seventeen years, wearing the same Adidas tracksuit he was wearing when he was arrested as a teenager. His home is Newhall, an ordinary American town, which has still not forgiven Marvin for the terrible thing he did all those years ago. He is welcomed back, more or less, to his shabby, run-down family home by two barking pit bulls and his terminally ill mother, Bernadette. While playing cards together...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
Physical Desc
625 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own--
8) Lolo
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A surprising and dark romantic comedy from acclaimed actress Julie Deply (Before Sunset), follows Violette (Delpy), a forty year-old workaholic in the fashion industry who goes on a spa retreat and falls for a local computer geek, Jean-Rene. But this new romance is threatened by Violette's spoiled teenage son, Lolo, who plots to ruin the relationship.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I killed my mother beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy decor, the ingrained mechanisms (i. e. manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel...
10) One perfect lie
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
12) Little big love
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
About a Boy meets Parenthood in this smart, big-hearted love story about a family for whom everything changed one night, a decade ago, and the young boy who unites them all. Ten-year-old Zac Hutchinson collects facts: octopuses have three hearts, Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth . But no one will tell him the one thing he wants to know most: who his father is and where he went. When Zac's mother, Juliet, inadvertently admits that his dad is...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this Golden Globe-nominated psychological thriller, Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton plays Eva, the mother to her deeply disturbed son Kevin (Ezra Miller). Eva contends with her clueless husband (John C. Reilly) and her son's malevolent ways as the narrative builds to a chilling and unforgettable climax.
Author
Series
Suzanna trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poor People's Flowers, Suzanna runs fast. Twice she ran away from men. The first man was her husband. The second a stranger, who promised to take her from New Mexico to Colorado in the mid 1930s. Suzanna runs until she meets two other men, and a beautiful woman. One of them uses her, the other helps her. The woman taught her to work in a working class bar, and together they searched for the children Suzanna left behind when she ran.--Back cover....
Author
Publisher
Abbi Glines
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The only thing hotter than the weather South of the Mason Dixon line are the boys. Worn, faded blue jeans, slow Southern drawls, and those naughty moments in the back of pickup trucks a girl never forgets. Welcome to the world of the Sutton boys. Five brothers who fight, party, drink a little too much, but more importantly, they love their momma. Nothing can tear them apart ... until the girl next door wins more than one of their hearts.--Page 4 of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale. Junior is a beautiful boy, with big brown eyes, a delicate frame, and a head of luxurious dark curls. But Junior aches to straighten those curls, to acquire a whole new look befitting his emerging fantasy image of himself as a long-haired singer. As the opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, has been estranged from his mother for most of his life. When his mother's new companion, Mrs. Camilla Stuart, writes to tell him that his mother is seriously ill, he goes home. But when he learns that the lovely widow tricked him in order to effect a holiday reconciliation, he refuses to stay unless she meets his terms.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the murder of her sister, Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct keyevidence.
19) The innocent
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel2s The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clm̌ence,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua J Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine Smurf Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man Baz; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive Craig; and troubled baby, Deran.
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