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Dancehall girl Julia Packett has not seen her daughter since shortly after her birth, forced to separate from the upper class husband by the snobby clan he calls family. Depending on her beauty, wiles and the kindness of a variety of gentlemen, she is startled to receive a wedding invitation in the post. An invite from the same daughter, Susan, she has not seen in 20 years.
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Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren't going great for either of them. Iona struggles with her new friends, who act more like frenemies than friends, and a neighbor won't give Lyn her stepladders back. Both mother and daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
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[Amgash volume 1
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Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
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When a mother lives with her mother and her daughter, inevitable conflicts arise, including the revelation of a dark past. These conflicts come to a boil during a family emergency and the three generations must decide how to move on with their lives in the face of the past influencing the future.
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The Kiss of the Vampire: On their honeymoon, Gerald and Marianne take a wrong turn and end up at the castle of Count Ravna, a vampire. When the count kidnaps Marianne, Gerald must ally with vampire hunter Professor Zimmer to rescue Marianne and destroy the vampire sect. Nightmare:As a child, Janet witnessed her insane mother stab her father to death. Now, as a young student, she has increasingly horrible dreams of her mother in an asylum that make...
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Melody returns home to Fairlands for the funeral of her estranged daughter June. But the town has almost disappeared under the encroaching desert. She also has to confront the fact she has a 10-year-old grandson, River, whose existence she knew nothing about. Melody decides to take River away with her but he is resistant. He has worked out an ambitious plan to survive by breeding the ostriches he and his mother used to feed.
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In this classic Southern tale of hilarious sadness set in a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stages a rather unorthodox intervention to help an acclaimed young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated, eccentric mother, find forgiveness and acceptance--and to let go of a painful past. Prominent young playwright Sidda Lee Walker lives in New York City, a long way from her Louisiana hometown and her highly dramatic and...
11) Where is Kyra?
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Kyra Johnson, a middle-aged divorcee, moves into her elderly mother's Brooklyn apartment while she looks for work and tries to get back on her feet. When her mother dies suddenly, Kyra is left without any support, both emotional and financial, and finds herself with very few options. Kyra can't accept that her once-tidy life has completely fallen apart. This leads her on a risky path of self-destruction that has devastating consequences.
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Kat Connor's mother mysteriously disappears, just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. At first excited by her freedom, Kat soon finds herself confronted with the strange facts of her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it begin to haunt her.
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Almost 30-year-old Anna lives secluded in her mum's shed making videos using her thumbs as actors. A week before her birthday her mom tells her that she has to cut her hair, stop dressing like a homeless person, and move out of the shed. At first, Anna is upset, but after a friend from school visits, her isolation can't be continued. Quickly she gets entangled with the local real estate agent and an eight-year-old boy who is obsessed with Westerns....
14) Daphne
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Hectic days and late nights. Daphne is caught in the daily rush of her restaurant job, and a nightlife kaleidoscope of new faces. She is witty, funny, the life of the party. A quick acerbic humor is her distinctive feature, but deep down Daphne is not happy. Busy fending off her mother's attempts to get closer to her, she is stuck in a rut. Then when she saves the life of Benny, a shop keeper stabbed in a failed robbery, the impenetrable armor she...
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Big Bad Mama: Sexy, Depression-era Mama (Angie Dickinson) and her daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Big Bad Mama II: Mama and her daughters return for a crime spree through the South as they seek to avenge the death of her husband.
16) The portrait
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Mags came home to paint a picture of her parents and discovered the art of being a daughter.
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In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. But after a shocking event shatters their idyllic life, the young girl must cope with the nightmarish repercussions that echo into adulthood. As she matures, it becomes clear that this beautiful but dangerous young woman has some very peculiar desires.
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Middleton gets transformed into a town where 'it's always the day before Halloween' when the author of a series of magic-and romance-filled novels comes to Grey House to celebrate the release of her newest book. But it's Cassie who ends up bringing the people together to put on the special event, while coming to a special realization about Sam.
19) My Zoe
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Following a divorce, geneticist Isabelle is trying to rebuild her life. She has a new boyfriend and plans to revitalize her career. But ex-husband James can't accept this and makes her life difficult as they co-parent their daughter Zoe. When a tragedy strikes, the already broken family's world is shattered, and Isabelle decides to take the girl's fate into her own hands.
20) Viktoria
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Follows three generations of women in the final years of the People's Republic of Bulgaria and the early years of the new governement. Dreaming of the west, Boryana, determined not to have a child in a communist Bulgaria is blessed with a child. The child, Viktoria, is missing a belly button and declared the country's Baby of the Decade. Boryana takes care of Viktoria until she's 9, and then they push away from each other. Can they be brought together...
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