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English
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George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. "The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely." Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his...
3) The wedding
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After more than twenty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife Jane's heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him again.
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Language
English
Description
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they navigated the girl drought of gawky adolescence together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumor and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they swore to stay friends forever. Until Adrian's life took a turn into tragedy, and all of them, especially Tony, moved on and did their best to forget. Now Tony...
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Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One...
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English
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Behind his hipness and attitude, Julian Donahue is going through an emotional crisis that started when his two-year-old son died of a freak infection. His wife, Rachel, reacted by vigorously cheating on him; Julian, meanwhile, went impotent. But his potency returns one night in his Brooklyn apartment as he listens to a CD by rising Irish singer-starlet Cait O'Dwyer. As his interest in her music and career grows into a full-blown obsession, Julian...
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English
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Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael's personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities....
8) Greenberg
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A forty-something man, single and unemployed, moves to Los Angeles to housesit for his brother and starts trying to create a new life for himself.
9) Men at work
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
A comedy about four old friends who, driving back from a failed ski trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock by the side of the road above a lake. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope. The heroes of the film are doctors, engineers, and businessmen in the throes of mid-life crises. Their middle class problems and the obsurd phallic rock venture give rise to great...
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Follet Valley mystery volume 2
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English
Description
"Middle-aged Englishman and B&B owner Richard Ainsworth is living a quiet life in the Val de Follet, and that's the way he likes it. His quiet routine is suddenly disrupted when scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver by way of its famous restaurant being downgraded from three 'Michelin' stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock and the leading goat's cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurization tanks....
12) Snow
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Language
English
Description
Ka's reasons for visiting the small Turkish town of Kars are twofold: curiosity about the rash of suicides by young girls in the town and a hope to reconnect with "the beautiful Ipek," whom he knew as a youth. But Kars is a tangle of poverty-stricken families, Kurdish separatists, political Islamists (including Ipek's spirited sister Kadife) and Ka finds himself making compromises with all in a desperate play for his own happiness.
13) A serious man
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family,...
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Series
Otto Ringling volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
The first fifty or so years of Otto's journey were pretty good. He felt he had it all until one day he didn't. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher ... Otto needs his brother-in-law's wisdom, ... and ... it turns out that Rinpoche himself is also looking for guidance. They embark on a road trip over...
15) Deerskin
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A recently divorced middle-aged man finds his life changing when he becomes obsessed with a deerskin jacket that seems to have strange powers.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
ix, 272 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After their first joint climb, addled by the thin air, Obmascik decides to keep his head in the clouds and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spicy adult comedy of manners, morals, and mid-life crises. A man who has everything nearly loses it all in an obsessive quest for a beautiful woman he spies from his Rolls-Royce.
18) Herzog
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Language
English
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Description
The tragicomic world of a middle-aged Jewish professor who is thrown into a chaotic state by the breakup of his second marriage.
19) The sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged Italian man living with his mother in Rome agrees to look after his building manager's mother to erase his debt, but when two other women end up living with them for a few days as well he must put together a meal for the Italian holiday of Ferragosto.
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