Alfred Molina
Author
Language
English
Description
The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"—doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites,...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, a wealthy but uncouth English family encounters the challenges of the untamed American West, then their daughter falls in love with a frontiersman and part-time preacher
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at that point in time when Lewis and Clark are still a living memory, and when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is about to turn into full-blown tragedy. Amidst all this, the Berrybender family -- English, eccentric, wealthy, and fiercely out of place...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon to be a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS!
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life" (The New Yorker).
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks...
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life" (The New Yorker).
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book₂s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life, and that his trusty purple crayon may set off more hilarious hijinks than he thought possible. When the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands, it will take all of Harold and his friends' creativity to...
10) Love is strange
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. George moves in with two cops who live downstairs, and Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife, and their teenage son. While struggling with the pain of separation, they are challenged by intergenerational tensions and...
11) Little men
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
12) The Water Man
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gunner's mother is very ill, but he believes a local legend about 'the Water Man' who knows how to live forever, so he and a mysterious girl named Jo set off into the Wild Horse forest in order to hunt down the legend. The deeper they go into the woods, it becomes more strange and more dangerous, but Gunner's father is coming after them and will stop at nothing to rescue his son."
15) Swelter
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Most notorious robbery in Las Vegas history, five men nicknamed the Rat Pack hit the Luxor casino for $100 million dollars. They escape prison to recover the buried money hidden in a strange, crazy small town.
16) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Fuses classic ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling with the distinctive backdrop of LA - delving into the unique attitudes, cultures, and crimes of the West Coast - as it follows two members of L.A.P.D.'s elite Robbery Homicide Division and their work with the District Attorney's office.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Accused of murdering his adoptive father, an orphan raised as a prince by a royal Persian family sets out on a dangerous quest with a beautiful princess to prove his innocence, recover a magical dagger that can reverse time, and defeat his treacherous uncle
19) Abduction
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther diamond, Clouseau is assigned to a dream team of international detectives who are under pressure to bring the master thief to justice before he strikes again