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In “Madame Bovary”, Charles, an awkward country doctor courts and weds Emma, the beautiful young daughter of a patient. Emma, unsuited to the role of housewife, quickly gets restless and begins to explore her passions. This leads to infidelities which she hides from Charles and, eventually, mounting debts as she turns to merchandise for her happiness. Flaubert’s novel is cited as the first example of literary realism and has been called a “perfect”...
3) Freedom
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
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ITV Global Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 446 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novels by John Galsworthy, The saga is an epic and highly praised series spanning three generations of the powerful Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century. Beneath the family's imposing veneer lies a festering core of unhappy and brutal relationships.
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English
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Marco Rubio's parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers, small-business owners, and maybe even a U.S. senator. That was the American Dream-our country's central promise to its people, if you work hard and play by the rules,...
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English
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One of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
Families today are
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Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little to perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Complete UK broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (276 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Set in the 1920s, two decades after the first series ends, the plot follows the courtship of two teenage Forsyte cousins: Fleur and Jon. Fleur, the daughter of Soames and Annette, and Jon, the son of Irene and Jolyon, meet by chance as youngsters; now Irene's son has fallen in love with the daughter of Soames, the man she despises above all others. Fleur and Jon haven't a clue that Soames and Irene were once married, all they know is that the family...
9) Married life
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a late 1940's suburban world, middle-class wives, like Pat, build their lives around their husbands. Pat and Harry seem happy, but Harry confesses to his pal, Richard, that the spark is gone. He plans to leave Pat for vibrant young war widow Kay. Once Richard, a notorious ladies man, gets a look at the platinum blonde, he secretly sets out to win her affections and Harry continues to plots to take Pat out of the picture.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (518 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As middle-agged, middle-class, middle-of-the-country mom Frankie Heck tackles the mundane chaos of everyday life her kids manufacture drama, and her husband offers his support while sitting on the living room couch.
13) Missing people
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Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"At the age of seventeen, Etta Messenger stepped from a school bus in a seemingly safe Chicago suburb and never reached her front door. Six years later, it's clear that none of the members of her middle-class family have finished mourning. Gaping emotional wounds have been poorly addressed. Etta's mother, Meg, anxious to find closure and make what she can of the rest of her life, has organized a memorial service to mark the painful anniversary. Newton,...
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Publisher
Disruption Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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pages cm
Language
English
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"The unemployment rate has neared record lows and the stock market neared record highs in 2019. Yet the gap between low- and moderate-income Americans and their wealthier counterparts is greater than ever. In 2019, founder and CEO of Promontory FinancialGroup Gene Ludwig gathered a bipartisan group of the nation's foremost economic thinkers - academics and politicians, CEOs and former presidential advisors - to break with convention and candidly discuss...
Publisher
Connecting the Dots Productions
Pub. Date
�2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color w/ black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a money fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of media, academia, pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized...
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Publisher
Forum Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 252 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless-and how we can fight back-from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread. Over the past two generations, U.S. leaders deregulated big business on the faith that it would yield a better economy and a freer society. But the opposite happened. Americans lost stable, well-paying jobs, Wall Street dominated...
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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1st Edition.
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pages cm
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English
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"America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent-especially the top 0.01 percent-and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else. Reeves defines the upper middle class as those whose incomes...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 557 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a searing indictment of America's decline, former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert profiles struggling Americans--casualties of decades of government policies that have produced underemployment, inequality, and pointless wars--and offers a ringing call to arms to restore justice and the American dream. The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 291 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""One of our most influential progressive voices tells the story of the hollowing of the American middle class and lays out the choices that we must make now to ensure that the dream of prosperity can live on for generations." --Provided by the publisher"--
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