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3) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight and has hyperglycemia. One day a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and takes hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because he feels it is duty as a security guard, he refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's...
8) Heft
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
An obese former academic shut-in and a poor kid dreaming of a successful baseball career are linked together by a former student who transforms their lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work, on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He's told Peaches so often about the origins...
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