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1) In the wake
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English
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It's Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen insists that her friends and family don't understand how bad the situation really is. But no one - not he loving partner, Danny, nor the passionate Amy, nor the brutally pragmatic and world weary Judy - can make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life. A funny, passionate, and ultimately searing new play that illuminates...
2) Safe harbour
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 12 cm
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English
Description
The darkness in the pasts of two people threaten their chance at love.
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (folded) in container
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English
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Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler, has been pretending to be a high-society matron in letters to her daughter. When her daughter comes to visit with her aristocratic fiance, Apple Annie enlists her gangster friends for help.
6) Harper
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1 videodisc (104 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Harper, an eleven-year-old girl finds her life shattered when her single father dies suddenly. Forced to live on a dilapidated farm with an Aunt she's never met, Harper must adjust to her new reality. However, just as she settles in, Isabella, her rich Southern Belle mother appears to claim the child she abandoned at birth. Faced with an uncertain future this young girl inspires us all with her resiliency and determination in the face of secrets,...
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son decides to take control the only way she can, by taking her own life. Bancroft, the widowed mother with whom she lives, is oblivious to her daughter's depression until she becomes frightfully aware of her plans.
10) Furlough
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.
11) Best mom
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Like most moms, Addy struggles with being the disciplinarian parent when her daughter Esther just wants a life of play. Addy turns to her husband, Jason for comfort and guidance. The problem is that Jason isn't just a superhero dad to Esther, he actually plays a superhero on TV. Jason tells Addy that all his success in life can be attributed to the lessons he learned in an Improv class: listening and playing.
12) Coyote Lake
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ester and her mother run a small bed-and-breakfast near the border of the US and Mexico. One night, two unwelcome guests arrive, threatening the safety of all. But the two women are hiding a secret, one that may prove the most treacherous of all.
13) 52 tuesdays
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1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
14) The final girls
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young woman suffering the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself drawn into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
15) Steel magnolias
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
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New classics volume NDP218
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English
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A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner.
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Maggie is an uptight, single mother who, in an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, takes her to the Tuscan village where she used to visit in her youth. There Maggie runs into her former lover Luca and his mother, Carmen. When Summer and Carmen impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome, Maggie and Luca follow in close pursuit.
19) Hellbender
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Locked away from the world by her mother who has convinced her she has a chronic illness, teenaged Izzy finally escapes into town for some expected rebellion. A night of drinking and high school cruelty unleashes a new kind of hunger within her, but when she goes to her mother for answers, she keeps them tightly guarded, not knowing Izzy's true nature is about to burst forth and devour everything.
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1 videodisc (113 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out on a trip that will ultimately lead Bettie to revisit...
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