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As the year winds down and the holidays gear up, our thoughts often turn to family gatherings. Whether you look forward to a happy event, or dread the inevitable, you can be sure that there is a book or movie in which the characters had feelings or situations similar to your own.
The staff at the library have provided their picks for books and movies where family plays an important part in the story; the selections run the gamut from funny to horrific, happy to sad, poignant to carefree.
Erika K.: It's a Wonderful Life (DVD)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Parenthood (DVD)
Amanda E.: anything by David Sedaris and Augustin Burroughs
Jacob D.: anything by Jonathan Franzen and Phillip Roth
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father (DVD)
Capturing the Friedmans (DVD)
The Incredibles (DVD)
After the Wedding (DVD)
In the Bedroom (DVD)
Dani G.: You Can't Take it With You (DVD)
Alana T: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audry Niffenegger
The Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris
The Godfather (DVD)
The Empire Strikes Back (DVD)
Gwen B.: Witness (DVD)
Nothing Like the Holidays (DVD)
Everybody's Fine (DVD)
Bella (DVD)
This Christmas (DVD)
Cary H.: A Christmas Tale (DVD),
Stealing Beauty (DVD)
Moonstruck (DVD)
Judy T.: Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Tortilla Soup (DVD)
Pam O.: Rainman (DVD)
A Christmas Story (DVD)
The Ref (DVD)
Dan in Real Life (DVD)
Four Christmases (DVD)
Joyce D. : Every Last One by Anna Quindlan
Carrie K.: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
Deanne H.: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Trip to Bountiful (DVD)
Susan C.: Grand Canyon (DVD)
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