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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
2) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
3) Busy Betty
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"As she tries to give her big, smelly dog Frank a bath, which becomes more impossible by the minute, Betty learns that she can accomplish anything with perseverance, teamwork, and one great idea"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Busy Betty has always been busy. Every day she wakes up with a million questions and a billion ideas! And today she has an amazing idea: she's throwing her mom a birthday party. Shhh . . . It's a surprise! Then Betty and her best friend, Mae, have the best idea of all: What if they threw Mom a circus surprise party?! It will be the greatest day in the history of the universe! Everything is perfect until Betty realizes oh, no! Mom's birthday isn't...
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The love story of country stars Johnny Cash and June Carter during the early years of Cash's career with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins
"Two thumbs up!"--Ebert & Roeper
"Brilliant. Masterful."--Wall Street Journal
"'Walk the Line' superbly combines music and two of the year's most riveting performances to tell one of the screen's great love stories."--New York Post
6) Home again
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A daughter of a famous filmmaker, who has just separated from her husband and moved with her two daughters into her childhood home in Los Angeles, meets three young aspiring filmmakers and lets them live in her home.
8) Rendition
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A CIA analyst is forced to question his assignment as he becomes party to the unorthodox interrogation of an Egyptian chemical engineer who disappeared on a flight to Washington, while his American-born wife desperately tries to track her husband down
"...guaranteed to get your heart racing."--Maxim
"...engrossing..."--USA Today
"...a gripping piece of entertainment ..."--Toronto Star
"...this is one timely thriller that delivers its message with...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities
"You'll scream with laughter."--Fox-TV
"Refreshingly tart..."--New York Times
"...laugh-out-loud funny..."--Portland Oregonian...
10) Vanity fair
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Unsatisfied with her lower-class birthright, beautiful, calculating Becky Sharp is resolved to conquer high society by any means necessary, employing all of her wit, guile, and sexuality to move her way up
"Very nice piece of work."--Ebert & Roeper
"A magnificent viewing experience, with each costume and set capturing the grandeur and squalor of both England and India."--Dallas Morning News
"A lively retelling of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sweet home Alabama: Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her...
12) How do you know?
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
13) Election
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for high-school president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control.
14) Sing 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The ever-optimistic koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet, all in the glittering entertainment capital of the world.
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