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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father dies, Francie's becomes more despondent, culminating in the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When Laura Trujillo's mother jumps off a ledge in the Grand Canyon and falls to her death, Laura sets out to discover what drove her mother's actions, and begins to explore the painful secrets they shared. As a young girl, Laura was happy that her mother, divorced and remarried, seemed happy again, and so she hides it when her stepfather begins to abuse her. Now grown up with a family of her own, after her mother dies, Laura goes in search of the...
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janés
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"'El día que mi madre se quitó la vida fue uno de los más felices de mi adolescencia... ¿Que si la odiaba? No lo sé... Tampoco sé si la quería. Hay muchas cosas que no sé, que no recuerdo, que no entiendo.' Renata tiene catorce años y la certeza de que es feliz por la muerte de su madre: Sabina. Los lectores desconocemos sus impulsos y precisamente esa incógnita es la que nos mantiene enmarañados en esta historia que muestra personajes...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 221 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, and writer Alexi Pappas shares the touchstone moments in her life that helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, and loss and hope. Adapted for young readers from Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas (The Dial Press; 2021).
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 283 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Embarking on another journey into uncharted territory: the past, the author, world-famous crossing 1,700 miles of Australian desert in 1977, presents the story of a mother and daughter through time: of their despair and survival, and their unbreakable bond with a landscape that would define, scar and heal them.
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