Campbell Scott
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning.
Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist...
Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist...
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English
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"Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Elster, a 73-year-old reclusive scholar, was selected by the U.S. government to conceptualize troop and artillery logics for a clandestine war plan. Now, with his service completed, he meets up with a filmmaker who wants to make a documentary on Elster's experiences. However, when the story is skewed, Elster's life is plunged into chaos.
4) Still mine
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra, dipping temperatures to 40 below zero. Discover the White Wolf, one of the most hardened predators on the planet in the Ellesmere's unforgiving ice and snow. In a fight for survival, these roaming hunters must travel far from the den to feed their cubs putting them at risk.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of Titan rises...Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries.
8) One Week
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young man (Joshua Jackson) decides to embrace life and embark on an epic cross-country road trip full of adventure and romance.
9) Saint Ralph
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, bittersweet comedy of an awkward, ninth grade Catholic school boy who sets out to make a miracle happen. Believing a miracle can save his mother's life and having been told his winning the Boston Marathon would be "a miracle," Ralph begins training to win the famed race. Only after seeing his resolve and temerity, a conflicted Father Hibbert (Campbell Scott) trains the boy through his triumphant win at a local race and prepares him for...
10) Salinger
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Draws on extensive research and exclusive interviews to share previously undisclosed aspects of the enigmatic writer's life, from his private relationships and service in World War II to his legal concerns and innermost secrets.
11) The Chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern) volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises--about who these women really are, and who they eventually become. Written by Julian Fellowes and based on the beloved novel by Laura Moriarty.
12) Singles
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Romance in the '90s is where you find it. But what do you do to make it happen in today's hilariously mixed-up Singles world? A stellar cast joins writer/director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) in this sweet, funny tale of Seattle twentysomethings searching for - and running from - love. Among the players: Matt Dillon (There's Something About Mary) as a romantically aloof rocker, Bridget Fonda (A Simple Plan) as his lovestruck neighbor, Kyra Sedgwick,...
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
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Language
English
Description
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and...
17) The shining
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English
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A child with a precognitive gift sees visions of an evil awaiting his family.
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Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey-with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake-through the lush...
19) Be cool
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Chili Palmer's follow-up to his smash hit film 'Get Leo' bombed, and in Hollywood, you're considered only as hot as your last project. Once again outside the system, Chili is exploring an idea for his third film by lunching with a former 'associate' from his Brooklyn days who's now a record label executive. When lunch begins with iced tea and ends in a mob hit, Chili soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with one of the LAPD's finest, Detective...
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