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1) Shuggie Bain
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with her happily married parents and older brother. Daphne Vasquez lost her hearing as a child and grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Life as they know it is turned upside down when Bay's school project about blood types reveals she is not genetically related to her parents, and a series of tests confirms she and Daphne were accidentally switched at birth.
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Language
English
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"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
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English
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When Gertrude Coppard, a refined young woman, meets Walter Morel, a rough coalminer, at a Christmas party dance, they feel immediately drawn to each other. After a short romance defined by physical attraction, the couple decide to marry. However, Gertrude soon realizes the financial difficulties of trying to survive off of Walter's measly salary. These troubles quickly cause the two to fight and grow apart. Walter begins to drink the little money...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nell was a girl, her parents were regularly evicted from the workers’ cottages they rented around Port Melbourne. Now a great-grandmother with 87 descendants, Nell still lives in the Port. But the cohesion of Nell’s extended family and neighbourhood is threatened by the pressures of modernisation and an influx of young professionals into the area. The old inner city suburb of Port Melbourne is the traditional home of working people whose...
8) Overboard
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Conners, Roseanne, Dan, Becky, Darlene, and DJ, are back for another hilarious season. Relive the life and times of the working class family as Roseanne gets a job as a waitress, Dan opens a motorcycle shop, Becky starts dating Mark Healy, Crystal is pregnant with Dan's father's baby, and Nana Mary makes her firstappearance.
Publisher
Carsey-Werner Co., LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Becky asks for birth control, Dan starts a new business, Rosanne develops a bingo addiction, Jackie becomes a truck driver, Darlene turns into a sullen teenager, and Arnie is abducted by aliens. It's a can't-miss season filled with the trials and tribulations of a working class American family.
Publisher
Distributed by Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of a lower-class family struggling with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money and parent's-in-law. The story circles around the Connor family - a family of five (DJ, Darlene, Becky, Roseanne and Dan). Roseanne is the mom who is being accompanied in her quest to keep the family together by her sister Jackie and various friends over the years.
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