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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life changing bond inspiring each other to live life to fullest, while being brought together by the most challenging of circumstances.
2) Coming home
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
3) Rent-a-pal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother. While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal. Hosted by the charming and charismatic Andy, the tape offers him much-needed company, compassion, and friendship. But, Andy's friendship comes at a cost, and David desperately struggles to afford the price of admission....
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local 'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for....
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 78
Language
English
Description
Done with big-city living, Maggie Conway, moves to the small seaside town of Friday Harbor, Washington and becomes owner of a toy store and meets the proprietor of the local coffee shop, Mark Nagle. It's almost love at first sight, but Mark's number one priority is his six-year-old niece, Holly, whose single mom recently passed away and left Mark as her guardian. Their lives intertwine when Maggie and her toy store prove to be the magical key to opening...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fannie Fairchild is old and quite rude with the people in her life, and is having trouble trying to hire someone to keep flowers on her grave when she is gone. Young Louise comes along to care for Fannie in her old age. Will Fannie accept love from Louise, or continue the lonely life she's lived all these years?
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons doesn't have time for the little people, including Little Pinks, the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc(DVD) (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Johanna Parry, a quiet caregiver, starts a new job working for an elderly Mr. McCauley and his teenage granddaughter Sabitha. A cruel trick by Sabitha lands Johanna in an awkward one-way relationship with Ken, Sabitha's estranged father but her newfound ambition and desire gives her courage to transform her awkward doom into real contentment.
9) Shut in
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terror hits home in this harrowing psychological thriller that will chill you to the bone. Recently widowed child psychologist Mary Portman lives an isolated existence caring for her bedridden stepson in rural New England. But when a young boy Mary is treating goes missing in a snowstorm and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced that his ghost is haunting her, and soon Mary's grip on reality turns as slippery as her icy surroundings.
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