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41) The letter
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens the letter and reads it -- a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever... Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool,...
42) Live the dream
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young couple are forced to part at the onset of war ...but dream of being reunited one day. August, 1939. When it becomes clear that war is about to break out with Germany, twin sisters Dilys and Una Singleby are forced to leave their studies in Munich and return home to England. Heartbroken at being parted, Dilys and her Norwegian student boyfriend, Kristoffer, vow to be reunited as soon as it's possible. However, as the months pass, a series of...
44) Stars of Alabama
Author
Language
English
Description
"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A lush, engrossing tale of love, deception and scandal in the 18th century French court of King Louis XV. Against the tumult of 18th century France, King Louis XV has tired of courtly intrigues and becomes a connoisseur of innocence. On the grounds of the Palace of Versailles lies Deer Park, a hunting ground that also offers another pleasure: a mansion where his young mistresses are housed. But when these girls first arrive at Deer Park, it is under...
46) Café Lumière
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
日本語
Description
Yoko, a freelance writer, becomes pregnant and chooses, against tradition and her parents' wishes, to raise the baby alone. In her loneliness and confusion, Yoko befriends the owner of a second-hand bookstore, who silently falls in love with her as she contemplates the choice she has made.
47) Freedomland
Author
Language
English
Description
Detective Lorenzo Council, attempting to head off an explosion of racial violence in Dempsy, New Jersey, moves quickly to learn the truth about the disappearance of four-year-old Cody Martin, a white child whose mother says he was snatched when her car was hijacked by an African-American man.
48) The snapper
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a close-knit, boisterous Irish family, and the commotion that follows the oldest daughter's announcement that she is pregnant. The whole town is thrown into a tizzy when she refuses to reveal the father's name.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years ago, Tia fell into obsessive love with a man she could never have. Married, and the father of two boys, Nathan was unavailable in every way. When she became pregnant, he disappeared, and she gave up her baby for adoption. Five years ago, Caroline, a dedicated pathologist, reluctantly adopted a baby to please her husband. She prayed her misgivings would disappear; instead, she's questioning whether she's cut out for the role of wife and...
50) Stolen life
Series
Publisher
Global Film Initiative
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文
Description
Yan'ni starts college, but once there she immediately falls in love with Muyu. Muyu begins an intricate deception that will take Yan'ni's child and the belief in any future she has.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 36
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1987.
Language
English
Description
Presents his first two novels and an early, little-known collection of portraits about men he knew.
Sister Carrie is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels".
As submitted to Harper and Brothers in...
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Read her letter. Remember her story...Gripping. Mesmerising. Haunting. Heart-breaking. Once you've heard her story, you will never forget The Girl in the Letter.Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Kathryn Hughes, this page-turning, moving novel of separation and long-buried secrets will stay with you for ever.In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a home for unmarried mothers in the south of England,...
53) The snapper
Author
Series
Barrytown novels volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1990
Language
English
54) Trust
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Maria announces her unplanned pregnancy to her family, her father dies of a heart attack, her mother evicts her and her boyfriend breaks up with her. With nowhere to go, she wanders into town, searching for a place to stay. Along the way, she meets Matthew, a highly educated and moody repairman living with his abusive father. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual identification and trust, while their families try to...
55) Trust
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When Maria announces her unplanned pregnancy to her family, her father dies of a heart attack, her mother evicts her and her boyfriend breaks up with her. With nowhere to go, she wanders into town, searching for a place to stay. Along the way, she meets Matthew, a highly educated and moody repairman living with his abusive father. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual identification and trust, while their families try to...
Language
Français
Description
Contains three films written by Marcel Pagnol. Marius is a young man torn between his love for his family and his desire to move away from his Marseilles harbor, while Fanny, his shy lover, doesn't know how to hold Marius back to keep him near her. Cesar, Marius' father, does not know his son's intentions. When Marius leaves, Fanny discovers she is pregnant with his son, and struggles with the support of his family, to survive without him.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
None
Description
The naive daughter of a prosperous pharmacist is made pregnant by her father's assistant. To preserve family honor, she is sent to a repressive reform school from which she escapes. On her own, she is directed to a brothel where she becomes liberated.
58) Lost boy found
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not...
59) Not wanted
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Ida Lupino's directorial debut, young and naive 'unwed mother' Sally Forrest's life spirals out of control after her musician beau ditches her for an out-of-town gig, despite the presence of another man determined to win her heart. In many ways this extraordinary first directorial effort, while uncredited, already bears the stamp of Lupino's unique vision: the remarkable empathy felt for the lead character, the hallucinatory moments, and the deft...
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