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1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
3) Hope floats
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Birdee Pruitt's husband and her best friend reveal their affair on a national TV talk show, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small Texas town she left behind. Mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, with Birdee wondering how she will recover.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey and Daniel are opposites inside and out of the courtroom. Audrey is meticulous and by the book, while Daniel relies on personality and luck to get by. Neither have lost a case and neither intends to now, but a celebrity power couple gone wrong will end one of their winning streaks. The divorce settlement hinges on an old Irish castle. The two race to Ireland where after an Irish festival...
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"It's been said that there are two sides to every story. In the case of divorce, these two sides are often drastically different. In the first half of the Divorce his/divorce hers set, Richard Burton demonstrates the husband's point of view as he goes through divorce proceedings with his soon-to-be ex-wife. In the second half ... the wife offers up her perspective of going through a divorce from her husband."--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"The luxurious Blue Train carries its passengers across France, from dreary wintertime England to the sunny French Riviera. When it arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumber. But she will never wake again -- she has been killed, and a heavy blow has disfigured her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing and her ever-present maid was dismissed from the train back in Paris....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Split examines the fast paced circuit of high-powered female divorce lawyers in London through the lens of three sisters, Hannah, Nina and the youngest, Rose. Exposing the complex realities of high end divorce and broken marriage through female divorce lawyers and sisters embattled and bound by their own troubled past.
10) Larkspur Cove
Author
Series
Moses Lake volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Social worker/single mother Andrea Henderson and Moses Lake game warden Matt McClendon are drawn together in the search for the identity of a little girl who is seen with the town recluse.
11) Hope floats
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002, 1998]
Language
English
Description
Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Hope floats (1998, 114 min.): Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
Speed (1994, 115 min.):...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line--or, rather, on the lawn--as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard"--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the newest installment of USA TODAY bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey's Peachtree Bluff series, three generations of the Murphy women must come together when a hurricane threatens to destroy their hometown-and the holiday season in the process"--
16) My pal Gus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The divorced father of a mischievous boy sends his son to day care and falls in love with the teacher, but soon his ex-wife appears and begins making demands.
17) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
"Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? See Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine."--Rolling Stone.
"Allen's story of a fictitious Ruth Madoff figure works as both a what-if...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Aspiring writers Albert and Lucy meet on a rainy night and fall in love. Happily married with a beautiful little daughter, their simple life starts crumbling down as Albert's career in Hollywood prospers and he falls in love with his leading actress. Growing up and seeing her loving parents go from love to hate, nine-year old Casey has had enough and is tired of being emotionally and physically ignored by her parents so she hires a lawyer and tries...
19) Chained
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Eager to marry his devoted secretary, Diane Levering, New York shipping magnate Richard Field asks his wife Louise, who has been living overseas for five years, for a divorce. The socially ambitious Louise, however, refuses to give up her position to Diane and denies Richard's request. Although Diane insists that she will continue to love him without the benefit of marriage, Richard asks her to contemplate her choices while cruising to South America...