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Series
Roseanne volume season 3
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows the ups and downs of a working class American family.
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...
Series
Roseanne volume season 5
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"The family frenzy begins when Roseanne and Jackie open a diner, Darlene decides to go to art school, Dan renovates a house creating even more financial tension, and Jackie starts dating a younger man"--Container.
5) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
Series
Roseanne volume season 2
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.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hugh "Shuggie" Bain 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. His mother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his siblings. Dreaming of a house with its own front door and ordering happiness on credit as her husband philanders, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good but finds...
Series
Roseanne volume season 6
Publisher
Carsey-Werner Co., LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The pressure is on when Bev sells her share in the diner, David pops the question to Darlene, Becky and Mark return home, and someone shocks the family with a walk down the aisle"--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
Series
The middle volume season 1
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The daily mishaps of a harried woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempt to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
Series
Roseanne volume season 9
Publisher
Carsey-Werner Company, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Conners are a working-class family in Illinois struggling with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money and in-laws. In this final season, the Conners win the lottery, Roseanne battles terrorists, Dan ponders the meaning of life, Jackie meets her prince, DJ finds love and Darlene gives birth.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ricky and his wife Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their economic distress. When Ricky gets the opportunity to be his own boss as a delivery driver, they trade in their only asset, Abby's car, for a new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to owning his own franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further to the edge by an unrelenting work schedule, a ruthless...
Series
The middle volume season 4
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Hecks tackle the beginning of a new school year, a not-so-relaxing Thanksgiving, and an unexpected wedding.
Series
All in the family volume season 7
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Archie is still as irascible and highly opinionated as ever, arguing with his liberal son-in-law, 'Meathead, ' and taking refuge in his long-suffering wife, Edith, who tries her best to understand Archie's conservative ways and outdated beliefs. Contains 25 original episodes.
16) Mystic River
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Three friends who grew up together in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter is coldly murdered and Dave is a suspect. Sean is now a cop who scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands--Container.
Series
The Flintstones volume season 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mowing the lawn with a saw-toothed dinosaur, showering with water sprayed from a woolly mammoth's trunk and eating brontosaurus burgers are everyday events for the lovable Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their friends Barney and Betty Rubble.
18) Vessel: a memoir
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son. Assuming his new role...
19) My life as a dog
Series
The Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
Swedish
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
Series
All in the family volume season 9
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Season nine finds Mike and Gloria officially moved out, leaving Archie and Edith "on their own" for the first time in a long while. Of course, that doesn't last long when Edith's cousin Floyd abandons his nine-year-old daughter Stephanie (Danielle Brisebois) on their doorstep. But, as the Bunkers have grown accustomed to doing, they make the best -- and funniest -- out of a terrible situation and take her in. Meanwhile, it turns out the Stivics are...
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