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1) Desperation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Interstate 50 leads right along to the loneliest place on the face of the earth known as Desperation, Nevada where it's neither fun to live or fun to die until evil is put down forever.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
After a nuclear apocalypse, the world's chosen elite survive in secure Outposts created by the mysterious Cooperative. On the American West Coast, Ms. Wilhemina Venable and Ms. Miriam Mead run Outpost Three with an iron fist. The unexpected arrival of Michael Langdon, a Cooperative representative determined to save society with a secret paradise, throws their order into chaos. However, underneath the surface of humanity's salvation lies a battlefield...
3) Cheri
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Belle époque-era Paris, a retired courtesan has an on-going affair with the son of her colleague, causing a rift between the friends and the young man's betrothal to wealthy younger woman.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to begin a new life in a North Carolina farmhouse, Shelby and Matt Miller flee Los Angeles only to find murder, mayhem and madness.
Series information: An anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, an enigmatic hotel and a sinister farmhouse in Roanoke, North Carolina.
6) The waterboy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An oddball mama's boy who lives to carry water for football players becomes a star when a coach discovers his hidden ferocity and channels it into gridiron greatness.
7) Warm springs
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
9) Used people
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
She got picked up at her own husband's funeral!' She is Pearl Berman, a not-so-inconsolable widow whose emotionally barren life and dysfunctional family get a joyous kick in the pants when a handsome Italian confesses that for 23 years he's loved her from afar. And now it's time for a close-up. As love turns Pearl luminescent, her disgruntled daughters and mother also discover that happiness is worth waiting for.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1998
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
13) Shadows and fog
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Recruited by an inept mob of vigilantes, Kleinman, a cowardly clerk, is forced to search for a notorious murderer -- only to stumble upon Irmy, a sword-swallower running away from the circus and her clownish boyfriend. Determined to help her and eager to escape the vigilantes Kleinman abandons his search for the killer ... or so he thinks.
14) White Palace
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Max Baron is a successful St. Louis advertising executive who's been in mourning since the death of his young wife. A chance late-night encounter introduces him to Nora Baker, and unexpectedly turns his life upside-down. An earthy, vibrant and fiercely independent woman, Nora works in a hamburger joint, lives on the wrong side of town and has at least 15 years on Max. Yet despite their differences, Max finds himself hopelessly in love..."--Container....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered daughter, Andrea, is betraying her husband Chris...
17) Tammy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option--with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma riding...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding themselves of their reluctant-to-leave son, Al and Sue hope...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Stacy is an associate producer for a daytime talk show who is confounded by her boyfriend Derek's unwillingness to talk about his previous relationships. Egged on by her co-worker Barb, Stacy sneaks a look at Derek's Palm Pilot and checks out the scores of names and numbers of his ex-girlfriends. Stacy sets up interviews with them, under the false pretense that it has to do with the show, in order to get closer to her man. Her plan starts to unravel,...
20) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Language
English
Description
Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner "Titanic."
