Anne Heche
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The actress describes her struggle to overcome a difficult and abusive childhood, including her father's frequent absences and his death from AIDS, her rise to success in the entertainment world, and her lesbian affair with Ellen DeGeneres.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mom and her brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive an unknown enemy.
Having wandered away from her arguing family during a hike on New England's Appalachian Trail, a young girl discovers that she is lost in the menacing woods with only her personal stereo...
3) Body double
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The dead woman looks exactly like Maura. Within a week, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Peter Connelly (Isaacs) investigates the murder of a beautiful American woman in Jerusalem, he soon discovers that the holiest city on earth hides an unholy secret. Now, in a race against time, Peter must stop the schemes that threaten to bring about an ancient prophecy and change the course of humanity.
7) Silver bells
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 40
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Christy Byrne, whose wife died four years ago, goes to New York with his children and meets Catherine O'Meara, whose husband died three years ago, Christmas season, faith, hope, and love.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Newman; follows the mid-life travails of sad sack Wallace Avery. Refusing to face a life he hates, he stages his own death and buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman. However, Arthur₂s road trip towards a new life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful but fragile Mike, who is also trying to leave her past behind. Through the process, Arthur and Mike discover that what they love most about each other are the identities they...
9) Toxic skies
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A strange new disease has a city in its grip, killing people with alarming speed. Two strangers are brought together in their urgent mission to find a cure. Dr. Tess Martin is a top virologist driven by her tragic past. Her only hope is Jack Bowen. Jack is a rule-breaking renegade who holds the key to the disease's horrendous origins.
11) Catfight
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A reunion between two former college friends sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition in this outrageously madcap black comedy.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ray and his unlikely pimp Tanya are taking matters into their own hands in the face of a recession-plagued economy by opening the 'Happiness Consultants Wellness Center for Woman', a front for their gigolo business complete with seminars run by Tanya and private consultations with Ray. As their business begins to yield dividends, Lenore seeks revenge upon Ray and Tanya for stealing her lifestyle idea, and transforms a 25-year-old busboy named Jason...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
High school basketball coach Ray Drecker lives in a Detroit devastated by the decline of the auto industry. After an electrical fire destroys his home, he loses custody of his kids to ex-wife Jessica; joins forces with poet-turned-pimp Tanya, with whom he once had a fling; and becomes a male escort.
14) The vanished
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An idyllic family vacation turns into a living nightmare for parents Paul and Wendy when their young daughter disappears without a trace. When the local sheriff fails to chase down any new leads, the frantic parents have no choice but to take matters into their own hands. As tensions mount and the list of suspects grows, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation where nothing is what it seems in this gripping psychological thriller.
15) Beyond suspicion
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When Auggie Rose is murdered on his first day out of prison, John Nolan takes on the man's identity.
16) Gracie's choice
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
Gracie and her sister and brothers, each the product of a different dead-beat dad, have been dragged through life by their drug-addled mother. At the age of seventeen, Gracie decides to get a job, succeed in school, and be the mother her siblings never had.
17) Birth
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
18) What remains
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A small-town pastor reckons with an act of forgiveness while a sheriff investigates a murder that may be related.
19) 13 minutes
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set in the (still) recession-plagued suburbs of Detroit, Hung continues to revolve around the unorthodox efforts of divorced teacher/coach Ray Drecker to generate extra cash - by selling his 'winning tool' to desperate women. Includes bonus features.