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Since its publication, in 1913, D.H. Lawrence's powerful and passionate third novel stands as one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century. Here is the story of artist Paul Morel as a young man, his powerful relationship with his possessive mother, his passionate love affair with Miriam Leivers, his intense liaison with married Clara Dawes. Here, too, England's Derbyshire springs to life with both its sooty mining villages...
7) Young Mungo
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2022.
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English
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"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
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Vandalia Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family stories set within Appalachia, this story provides an uncommon glimpse into this region: not coal, but an aluminum plant; not hollers, but small-town America; not hillbillies,...
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Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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After the death of her oldest son, Gertrude Morel pours all of her love and frustrated ambition into her relationship with he youngest son, Paul. Struggling to find his own way in the world, Paul is torn between putting his mother's wishes before his own and finding happiness on his own terms..
10) Plutopia: nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
11) Overboard
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MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
12) Mystic River
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Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quiet life, but harbors some...
13) Shuggie Bain
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
14) Overboard
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Pantelion Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
15) Empire Falls
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HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
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2006.
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English
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'Roseanne' is the story of a working class family struggling with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money, and parents-in-law. In the sixth season, Roseanne finds a surprising stash, Dan re-connects with an old flame, Jackie becomes pregnant, Darlene leaves for college, Becky returns home, DJ sneaks off to church, and also the series' shocking lesbian kiss, a Halloween to remember and a Thanksgiving the Conners wish they could forget....
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas - a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared. Assuming responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her father and three brothers and outwardly maintains a sense of calm. But her balance is upset and the repercussions of her family's struggles are revealed when a chance encounter with a married man leads Laura into a complicated...
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"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
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