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Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
22) Eight cousins
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at "The Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet hallways of a girls' boarding school, exist in such a spirited home? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything. Much to the horror of her aunts, Rose's forward-thinking uncle insists that the child get out of the parlor and into the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unauthorized family portrait documents the private lives of the Johnson empire, discussing their high-profile affairs, their struggles with addiction and mental illness, and the obsessions of a dynasty ruler who abandoned his family in favor of his ideals.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the disturbed young man accused of murdering his father, a Manhattan millionaire and hedge fund founder. By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. The son of a wealthy hedge fund manager and a financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood could provide: education at the elite Buckley School and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Fantasizing about the downfall of the Kesslers, his well-to-do boss's family, streetwise pre-med student Syd Redding meets the family daughter and quickly becomes embroiled within the Kessler dysfunctions and sexual machinations.
27) The fox's walk
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Alice Moore is eight years old and has just been left in the care of her autocratic grandmother at Ballydavid, a lovely old house in the south of Ireland. It is 1915, the First World War has just entered its second year, and, in Ireland, Nation-alists are edging toward revolution. Often lonely and homesick, living in a rigid old-fashioned household where propriety is all-important, Alice pieces together the world around her from overheard conversations,...
28) Purple hibiscus
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at homea...
Publisher
Random Media
Language
English
Formats
Description
Film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's novel follows daughter of a well-to-do family in 1948 Manhattan. Fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson, leads a sheltered life in New York City until her parents' marriage begins to fall apart. When Camilla meets her best friend's rebellious brother Frank she finds a way to escape her troubles. As her relationship with Frank deepens, Camilla discovers a world outside of her own and begins to understand a little...
30) Richie Rich
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A likable but isolated kid has everything money can buy except friends--until he hits it off big with a group of sandlot kids.
31) The landlord
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
32) Serpent tide
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Lonely and overprotected, Wesley soon finds himself on a fantastic adventure.
33) Mansfield Park
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
34) Admissions
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to enroll her daughter in private school, Helen Drager finds herself overwhelmed by the political undertaking, her friend's precarious position as an admissions officer, and her husband's attempts to set up a bribe.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As the Walsh twins, Brandon and Brenda, learn their way around a town where kids grow up fast, both they and their friends Dylan, Kelly, Donna, Steve, Andrea and David experience the highs and lows of love, lust, and loss.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ryan's savior complex becomes a recipe for disaster. Seth and Summer's relationship hits the rocks thanks to Seth's compulsion to edit the truth. As Kirsten attempts to put her life back together, Sandy assumes leadership of the Newport Group and finds himself the heir-apparent to Caleb Nichol's legacy of scandal. Marissa spirals out of control after little sis Kaitlin returns home to stir the pot.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Ryan Atwood, a tough, guarded, fiercely intelligent 16-year-old plunges headlong into the wealthy community of Newport Beach, he soon discovers that the ruling families of Orange County are every bit as territorial as the tough crowd with which he ran on the streets of Chino. For Sandy Cohen, the idealistic public defender who takes Ryan in; his wife Kirsten, the linchpin of O.C. society; their awkward adolescent son, Seth; and the beautiful...
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