Julianne Moore
Author
Description
Bestselling author and award-winning actress Julianne Moore pays homage to all the Muttis, Mammas, and Mamans who are from another country. A foreign mom may eat, speak, and dress differently than other moms- she may wear special clothes for holidays, twist hair in strange old-fashioned braids, and cook recipes passed down from grandma. Such a mom may be different than other moms, but...she is also clearly the best. Vividly illustrated by Meilo So,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
After a noisy summer, Freckleface Strawberry and her friends return to school where the only time they should be loud is at recess, but Windy Pants Patrick cannot remember to use his indoor voice, and that comes in handy before the day is through.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Freckleface Strawberry is just like everyone else, except that she has red hair and freckles but when she tries to hide who she is, she learns about true friendship and accepting yourself just as you are.
7) The hours
Author
Formats
Description
A trio of stories based around the writer, Virginia Woolf. In the first, set in 1923, Woolf is writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. In the second, in 1949 Los Angeles, Laura Brown can't seem to stop reading Woolf. In the present, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility.
9) Suburbicon
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Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
10) Don Jon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A womanizer tries to overcome his addiction to pornographic videos in order to find a woman whom he can form a meaningful relationship with.
11) Non-stop
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
Series
Jurassic Park ultimate trilogy volume disc 2
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs. 9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free. Now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their...
13) Safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 739
Formats
Description
Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.
14) Still Alice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Harvard psychologist suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life.
15) Chloe
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Catherine is suspicious that her husband David is having an affair, and hires Chloe, an alluring young escort to test his fidelity. Their arranged weekly meeting allows Catherine to hear the explicit details of the encounters Chloe has with David. As Catherine becomes caught up in a web of sexual desire herself, she begins a journey that will put her family in grave danger. Is it too late to stop Chloe?
16) Wonderstruck
Publisher
Roadside Attractions Llc
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
"There are few directors better than Haynes at adopting varied voices and vernaculars and then blending them to create something intoxicating and new."--Village Voice
"For a kid in this age of digital devices and content disconnected from experience, Wonderstruck could be...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. They have two teen-aged children, Joni, who is Nic's biological child, and Laser, who is Jules' biological child. A big-hearted, sexy and uproariously funny movie that combines comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Isabel has devoted her life to working with the children in a Calcutta orphanage. Theresa is the multimillionaire leader of a media company who lives with her artist husband and twin boys in New York. When Isabel hears of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially strained orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor, Theresa, in person.
19) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles,...