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Peter has his heart broken by Sarah Marshall, his girlfriend of five years. Sarah is an actress on a television crime series. After breaking up with Peter, she moves on with her life and her new boyfriend, Aldous, a British rock star. Peter is devastated, and after trying unsuccessfully to put her out of his mind, he decides to take a vacation to Hawaii to unwind. Unfortunately for Peter, Hawaii is also the chosen destination of Sarah and Aldous....

After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. (500) days of Summer: A young greeting card writer is hopelessly, helplessly searching for the girl of his dreams, and his new co-worker, Summer Finn, may just be 'the one.' But the 500 days of their offbeat relationship reveal (in no particular order) that the road to happiness can be unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unbelievably funny! The big sick: Pakistan-born...

New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico. Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find...

"Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts...

"The true story of Estela Jaurez, a young American girl who writes letters to her local newspaper, to Congress, and even to the president, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation"--

After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they'll remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.

Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceañera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family's RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelán is on everyone's minds. What Joaquin is decidedly trying to not think about is whether his mom is going...

Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant -- who reveals the...

In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.