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1) Meant to be
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
About a 20-year old named Nathan who loses his career and his girlfriend and begins to question his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, he grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. Nathan sets out to find his mother and come to terms with her rejection.
3) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When former journalist Martin Sixsmith is dismissed from the Labour Party in disgrace, he is at a loss as to what do. That changes when a young Irish woman approaches him about a story of her mother, Philomena, who had her son taken away when she was a teenage inmate of a Catholic convent. Martin arranges a magazine assignment about her search for him that eventually leads to America. Along the way, Martin and Philomena discover as much about each...
4) Precious
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the breakup, Ben and Amy explore new relationships, though their attraction still lingers. Meanwhile, Ashley tests her parents' limits, and Anne wants to remarry George on their next anniversary, but will he be able to wait that long?"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn't regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and taumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which...
8) Kotch
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming comedy, directed by Jack Lemmon, about an eccentric widower who befriends a feisty teenage mother-to-be.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Relationships continue to shift and change as each character struggles with questions about loss, loyalty and love. In the wake of tragedy comes new beginnings, and ultimately, new challenges as everyone must come to terms with what kind of future they want for themselves and those they care about.
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