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Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Mason is helping a child who'd otherwise find disappointment under the Christmas tree. The boy's war-widowed mom notes the gesture, and she's drawn to the handsome stranger.
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 5
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that started it all ... The community of Virgin River saw Vanessa Rutledge through her darkest days--now she's looking to a bright future. In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son--breaking her heart while filling it with a whole new kind of love. But the one man she longs to share this love with now acts as if she doesn't exist. Paul Haggerty lives by the...
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In 1917, Evelyn Marche is just one of many women who has been widowed by the war. A British nurse trapped in German-occupied Brussels, she spends her days working at a hospital and her nights as a waitress in her aunt and uncle's café. Eve also has a carefully guarded secret keeping her in constant danger: She's a spy working for a Belgian resistance group in league with the British Secret Service. When a British plane crashes in Brussels Park, Eve...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Russian
Description
In a land torn apart by war, two men on opposite sides are about to find out they have one thing in common. Wounded and emotionally tortured, they are taken in by Anni, a young war widow. None of them understands the others' languages, but it doesn't seem to matter. After a hard day at work on Anni's farm, who needs words?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Albanian
Description
Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of World War II, an American soldier forms a delicate friendship with a war widow amid the devastation of 1946 Poland. In spite of the language barrier, painful memories of their past, and the many cultural divisions that separate them, Norman and Emilia dare to steal a moment of happiness together.
Series
Criterion collection volume 442
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
An elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher's unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. It takes a simultaneously sober and sentimental look at the epic themes of aging, war, and death.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the night concerns two sisters, Fusako and Natsuko, one a war widow and the other in an affair with a drug dealer. Along with their younger friend Kumiko they fall into prostitution and moral chaos and a life of gangs and gangsters, trapped by their city's postwar desperation and devastation.
13) Maggie's war
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Winnipeg, 1942. War widow Maggie Marshall finds it hard to grieve for her abusive husband. But when Charlotte, the unwed pregnant teen in her care runs away, Maggie's childhood friend Reverend Reuben Fennel is happy to join Maggie in her pursuit to Fort William to find Charlotte though it may cost him his job and his reputation"--
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