Jennifer Ehle
Language
English
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Description
"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorc�ee Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age...
3) She said
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness. Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe join the dragon on a terrifying,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry and the unicorn Gaudior must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe. Includes an interview with the author.
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
"The filmmaker and his on-screen proxies...
Author
Language
English
Description
Leo and Darren are two gay roommates living in London, each single and pursuing romantic happiness. While Darren strikes up a relationship with real estate agent and sex-fiend Jeremy, Leo joins a New Age men's therapy group and promptly develops a crush on fellow member Brendan - who is recently separated from his longtime girlfriend Sally!
9) Wetlands
Author
Language
English
Description
As a major storm approaches the outskirts of Atlantic City, a newly sober police detective goes to extreme measures to make sure his estranged family does not fall victim to the vengence of a local crime lord.
10) Little Men
Author
Language
English
Description
When 13-year-old Jake's (Theo Taplitz) grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan back into his father's Brooklyn home. There, Jake befriends the charismatic Tony (Michael Barbieri), whose single, Chilean mother Leonor (Paulina Garcia) runs the dress shop downstairs. When Jake's parents Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) ask Leonor to pay a higher rent - and a feud ignites between the adults - the boys take an oath of silence against...
11) A Quiet Passion
Author
Language
English
Description
Cynthia Nixon personifies the wit, intellectual independence, and pathos of 19th Century American poet Emily Dickinson in this masterful biographical drama from acclaimed director Terence Davies (House of Mirth).
12) The River King
Author
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling murder mystery, a detective (Edward Burns) believes the apparent suicide of a student may have been a hazing ritual gone awry.
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" follows the titular character (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night.
14) Sunshine
Author
Language
English
Description
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
15) Love, Marilyn
Author
Language
English
Description
Of all the stars in Hollywood's history, no one had a more potent mix of glamor and tragedy than Marilyn Monroe. Through performed readings of her personal papers, this film explores the life and personal thoughts of this seminal movie star.
16) The Tempest
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This haunting drama of vengeance and forgiveness crowns the group of tragicomic romances that Shakespeare composed at the end of his career. Sometimes read as his farewell to the stage, the play contains some of Shakespeare's most lyrical verse.
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother, and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Aided by the
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Ana is an inexperienced college student tasked with interviewing enigmatic billionaire Christian Grey. But what starts as business quickly becomes an unconventional romance. Swept up in Christian's glamorous lifestyle, Ana soon finds another side to him as she discovers his secrets and explores her own dark desires. What results is a thrilling, all-consuming romance as Christian and Ana test the limits they will go to for their relationship.
18) She Said
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Bennett is a strong-willed yet sensible young woman, the second of five sisters. She has a long-suffering but loving clerical father, and a scatterbrained mother anxious to marry them off as soon as possible--to wealthy young gentlemen. At a local ball, she encounters one such, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds arrogant, cold, and rude. Her older sister Jane falls in love with Darcy's best friend Mr. Bingley, while youngest sister...
Language
English
Description
James Foley directs this sequel to the romantic drama based on the novel by E.L. James with Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson reprising their roles as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. In this instalment, the couple separate after Anastasia experiences difficulty accepting Christian's romantic past. When she is offered a position at a publishing house in Seattle she accepts, but is left wondering if splitting up with Christian was the right thing...