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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit and takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal--or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.
6) Poltergeist
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Freeling family is a typical middle class family living in the peaceful Cuesta Verde Estates. Steve, his wife Diane, 16-year-old daughter Dana, 8-year-old Robbie, and 5-year-old Carol Ann live in a track house. Soon strange things begin to happen around the house; the pet canary dies, mysterious storms occur, and Carol Ann is summoned to the TV set, where a strange shaft of green light hits her and causes the room to shake. As the curious events...
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kevin experiences a lot of firsts, he gets his first pimple and his first puppy; he has his first French kiss and joins his first band; and he gets his first 'D' in math class. Paul is still as allergic as ever, but gets a boost of confidence from a date with Norma; and Jack and Karen stop fighting long enough to celebrate her eighteenth birthday, if only for a moment.
Author
Publisher
Navona
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela que relata la vida de una familia de la clase media y simultáneamente dos hechos que marcaron la historia de Colombia: el asesinato de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, más conocido con el "Bogotazo", y la muerte del cura guerrillero Camilo Torres.
A novel that tells the life of a middle class family and simultaneously two events that marked the history of Colombia: the murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, better known as the "Bogotazo", and the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 743
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Frankie and Mike Heck are frazzled parents trying to stretch their patience and paychecks around three brilliantly true-to-life kids: Axl, whose latest dream girl has tattoos, body piercings, and pink hair; Sue, who's thrilled to come in eighth (out of eight) in Square Dancing with the Stars; and Brick, the only kid who has his birthday party at the public library.
Series
Criterion collection volume 339
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of a year, from a wedding at the start to a funeral at its end.
18) Mrs. Miniver
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personafies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while she is preparing for her annual flower show despite the...
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