Lolita Davidovich
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage.
But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers...
But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A remote, hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down when a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors and the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime.
5) The juror
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a single mother and artist receives a juror summons, she's pulled abruptly into the dangerous depths of the criminal underworld in this shocking, psychologically twisted thriller.
Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a rountine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary
...6) Raising Cain
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A psychologist takes a year off to be at home with his young daughter, and become obsessed with her. As time progresses, he begins to show multiple personalities.
7) Cobb
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Baseball legend Ty Cobb asks sportswriter Al Stump to write his biography. Cobb lives down his reputation as an extremely difficult person. While driving across country to a banquet at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cobb tells Stump about his life but his gun wielding, drinking and drug use get them into many scrapes along the way. Stump writes both the version Cobb dictates to him and the version he himself sees, but he only publishes Cobb's version....
8) Dead silence
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Three escaped convicts hijack a school bus and end up trapped at an abandoned slaughterhouse in a hostage situation they didn't plan.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.
10) Blindside
Author
Language
English
Description
Penfield Gruber (Harvey Keitel) once was a great scientist, but is now reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.
11) Leap of faith
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Steve Martin plays Reverend Jonas Nightengale, a slick-as-oil flimflam man who'll trade salvation for a donation to his touring ministry. Jonas knows how to work a crowd and a con, but his works of wonder are done with mirrors and smoke. When his tour bus breaks down, Jonas pitches his tent in impoverished Rustwater, Kansas. While his manager (Debra Winger) tries to pursuade the local sheriff not to close the show, Jonas set his sights on a beautiful...
12) Boiling point
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A cop is given a week to find his partner's killer, and the killer is given a week to repay his debt to a gangster.
13) Snow in August
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1947, the friendship of a young Catholic boy, Michael (Peter Tambakis) with a Czech rabbi (Stephen Rea) inspires the wrath of a local Irish street gang, a situation that boils over when Michael witnesses the vicious beating of a Jewish shopkeeper. Soon, Michael has lost his childhood best friends and is forced to turn for help to an ancient Jewish text with the power to summon a supernatural protector.
14) Blaze
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Paul Newman stars as a fiery, eccentric governor who falls head over heels in love with dazzling Blaze Starr, an innocent New Orleans stripper with a heart of gold. Forced to choose between the office he holds and the woman he loves, he chooses both, igniting an outrageous scandal full of trouble, tenderness and sexy high-spirited fun.
15) September dawn
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Takes an up-close look at the devastation wrought by religious fanaticism and set against the backdrop of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. As a wagon train of westward-bound settlers makes its way across southern Utah, a confrontation with a congregation of Mormons soon leads to deadly consequences for all involved. Centered on the massacre, which continues to stir controversy over a century and a half after the fact.
16) Intersection
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Separated from his wife, an architect has an affair with a writer, but remains emotionally torn between the two women, leaving his future happiness, and that of his 13-year-old daughter, hanging in the balance.
17) Harvest of fire
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Gold Crown collector's edition, full screen version.
Language
English
Description
An Amish woman must overcome her distrust of outsiders and risk being shunned by her own people, in order to help an FBI agent discover who is the arsonist setting fire to Amish barns.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Recently single Jessica sends Christmas cards to five people who have impacted her life: the aunt who raised her, her younger brother in the military, a pop star who provided the soundtrack to her life, the music teacher who inspired her and the best friend who always tells the truth." --container.
19) Boiling Point
Author
Language
English
Description
Wesley Snipes stars as United States Treasury agent Jimmy Mercer, whose partner dies in a sting operation gone bad. Now on a quest to find the killer, Mercer is a cop who's reached the Boiling Point. Mercer pursues the sadistic ex-con (Viggo Mortensen--The Lord of the Rings films) responsible his partner's death as the ex-con goes teams up with a manipulative con man (Dennis Hopper) for a bloody two-man crime spree through Newark, New Jersey in this...
20) Dark blue
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
A veteran LAPD detective trains a rookie cop in the realities of police intimidation and corruption in the days leading up to the Rodney King beating trial verdict and the L.A. riots that followed.
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