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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eve Fletcher is dealing with empty-nest syndrome when she gets a text message from an anonymous number, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, Eve develops an interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary, middle-aged women like herself. As her online fixations begin to spill over into real life, romantic possibilities threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence. Miles away at the state college,...
Author
Language
English
Description
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine -- growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"She was one of the FBI's top agents until she became the nation's most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society's terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn't save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills--and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice--Jane has struck major...
5) Peaceful
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fighting to do their job and bring them to acceptance. They have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What Happens Next is a raw, realistic story told by an unnamed protagonist who is made to feel different from everybody else-even invisible sometimes. Bullied by a girl at school, our narrator gives a terse script of the related facts (What Her Friends Do: Laugh. What Everyone Else Does: Nothing.) and emotions (How I Feel Sometimes: Bad. Really Bad.). The narrator takes these hurt feelings home, where Mom listens and offers some ideas. At school...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
From his difficult childhood in Poland to his career in the air force in Africa during World War II, Romain Gary has lived an extraordinary life. He owes this relentless enterprise to his mother Nina. It's the wild love of his eccentric and endearing mother that drives him to become one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, to lead a life full of twists, passion, and mystery. But this unconditional maternal love also be a burden that...
9) The waterboy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An oddball mama's boy who lives to carry water for football players becomes a star when a coach discovers his hidden ferocity and channels it into gridiron greatness.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Karen Neulander has always been fiercely protective of her son, Jacob, now six. When Jacob's father, Dave, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn't in his plans, Karen walked out of the relationship, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. But now Jake is asking to meet his dad, and with good reason: Karen is dying. When she finally calls her ex, she's shocked to find Dave ecstatic about the son...
11) The innocent
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel2s The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clm̌ence,...
12) The shadows
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The haunting new thriller from Alex North, author of the New York Times bestseller The Whisper Man You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might becapable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it's attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jolyon Chadwick, despite long odds, has become a veritable success story. He's a famous television presenter, and the company that he started is thriving despite his mother Maria's disdain for the project. Now Maria, who abandoned Jolyon and his father long ago, has been widowed from her second marriage and returns to ask forgiveness for her transgressions. Can Jolyon trust her motives? Does she really want a relationship with her son, or does she...
15) The other woman
Author
Language
English
Description
"The most twisty, addictive and unputdownable debut thriller you'll read this year. HE LOVES YOU: Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet. BUT SHE LOVES YOU NOT: Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. AND SHE'LL STOP AT NOTHING: Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is...
16) My one and only
Publisher
Runaway Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When Anne Deveraux finds her bandleader husband Dan in bed with another woman, she packs her bags, empties the cash drawer, buys a baby blue Cadillac convertible and begins a cross-country trek with her sons. From Boston to Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Albuquerque and finally Hollywood, her search for a new life continues to turn up short. But the richness of coming to really know her sons -- Robbie, who dreams of a life on stage, and George, a cynical,...
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As a kid, Todd wanted nothing more than to be a private detective. Now that he is, he's quite good at it. The rest of his directionless life? That's a bit of a mystery, especially to his uber-successful lawyer mom. So when she offers him a job as an in-house investigator at her firm as a way for him to get his act together, he reluctantly agrees, as long as Mom promises to let her adult son be who he wants to be.
18) Z
Publisher
Shudder, RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Beth's son brings home an imaginary friend named 'Z,' she becomes concerned that he is falling too deep into a world of make-believe. He starts to display extremely destructive behavior, blaming Z for all of his actions. But after he gets kicked out of school, Beth is forced to find a solution. She medicates her son, making him unable to see his imaginary companion. But now Beth sees Z and he wants to be her friend.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Disgruntled Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. When Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer, she decides to take the money and leave town. When a tired Marion is caught in a storm, she pulls off the main highway and checks into the Bates Motel. The manager of Bates Motel is a quiet young man named Norman Bates, who seems to be dominated by his mother.
20) In your hands
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A prayer from mother to son that he will always in safe hands"--
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