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2) Demolition
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Davis Mitchell, a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father in law, Phil, to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions. Davis' letters catch the attention of customer service rep, Karen Mareno and amidst emotional and financial burdens of...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A poignant look at how a woman's love and support can help a widower, who is struggling to overcome the loss of his wife, deal with his older son's decision to leave home, and his younger son's destructive behavior.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While driving away his past in a beat-up old Cadillac trying to shake the memory of his wife's death, Byron picks up an eccentric on his way to Memphis. Normal enough, except that this drifter believes he is the real Elvis and that he's headed home to Gracelend. During the surreal and intense collision course that follows, this odd couple side swipes every emotion in the gamut. And after Byron unmasks a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, there's no denying...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A live performance of the classic musical. An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reluctant faith healer tries to escape his darkened past working as a ranch hand for a plain-spoken widower and his young daughter. Over time, he becomes a part of their family and even falls in love with the local girl who helps out at the ranch, giving him hope that he may have finally found a place to call home. But, his fragile dreams are shattered when his predatory evangelist mother tracks him down, stopping at nothing to get her son and his...
11) Safe haven
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, a young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
12) Bag of bones
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A novelist goes to the family summer house in Maine with the hope of completing his book. Once there, he is haunted not only by his wife's death but other inhabitants at Dark Score Lake.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
A Danish hairdresser recovering from recent cancer treatments discovers that her husband has been cheating with a young co-worker and travels alone to her daughter's wedding in Italy where she sparks a connection with the father of the groom.
14) Priceless
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A widower who loses custody of his daughter finds himself unable to hold down a job. He agrees to drive a truck across the country, no questions asked. When he discovers what he is delivering, he is faced with a life-changing choice.
16) Black or white
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
18) The intern
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
19) We bought a zoo
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from a memoir by Benjamin Mee, the story of how the author, who has lost his wife, and his children cope with a dilapidated zoo, dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
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