Julianne Moore
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Academy-Award winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Julianne Moore brings us more adventures from Freckleface Strawberry! Picky eaters everywhere will laugh along as Freckleface Strawberry gets her lunch from the cafeteria and asks the terrifying question: “What’s that?!”
With predictable sentence patterns, simple words, frequent repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, this is a new...
With predictable sentence patterns, simple words, frequent repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, this is a new...
2) Backpacks!
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Academy Award–winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Julianne Moore brings us more adventures from Freckleface Strawberry! Freckleface and her best friend, Windy Pants Patrick, each have something secret in their backpacks: sticky, gooey gum and a squished, messy donut. When it comes time to pull their homework from their backpacks to hand in to the teacher, suddenly their snack choices seem like a really bad idea.
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Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body. Willie finds himself in a strange purgatory-- the bardo-- where ghosts commisserate quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance ... and where a struggle erupts over...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Freckleface Strawberry and Windy Pants Patrick are best friends because they have so much in common, but when the boys convince Windy Pants that he should play with them at recess, and the girls convince Freckleface Strawberry to play with them, the friends see that they are very different, too.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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
Language
English
Description
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man...
8) Non-stop
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London...
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Sarah Miles is the bored wife of a British civil servant. When Mr. Miles introduces her to American writer Maurice Bendrix at one of the couple's cocktail parties, she is unable to deny her attraction to him, or to resist his interest in her.
11) Benny & Joon
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A unique romantic comedy about a smart and pretty young girl who just happnes to be a little unbalanced and a whimsical misfit who charms her with his Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin-like antics.
14) The hours
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Recuperating from a nervous breakdown, Virginia Woolf begins work on her depression-themed novel "Mrs. Dalloway", which goes on to play a key role not only in her own life but in the lives of a 1950s housewife contemplating suicide and a new-millennium posh lesbian publisher caring for her dying friend.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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,...
16) Carrie
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a teenage girl with telekinetic powers is pushed to her limits with the pranks of her classmates, she seeks revenge against them.
17) Far from heaven
Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
This middle-class family looks perfect from the outside, but behind closed doors the wife is becoming close to her African-American gardener, and the husband is struggling to deal with his homosexuality.
18) Shipping news
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived. She awakens from the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell deep inside the bunkered catacombs of District 13. Separated from some of her closest allies and fearing for their safety in the Capitol, Katniss finally agrees to be the Mockingjay, the symbolic leader of the rebellion. Still uncertain as to whom she can trust, Katniss must help 13 rise from the shadows, all the while knowing that President Snow has...