Richard E. Grant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on," but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover.
Author
Publisher
Pimpernel Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this romantic, evocative and extremely practical book Isabel Bannerman immerses the reader in the luscious smells of the secnted garden through a warmly written account of a year's gardening, combining poetic description and personal memories with an encyclopaedic reference work of the best aromatice plants to grow throughout the seasons.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After a toy factory owner and his wife get an unexpected visit from a precocious 7-year-old boy, their world will be turned upside down! When they decide to take him in as a foster child, the new parents begin a miraculous journey that showcases the joys and experiences of a family.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lee Israel who made her living in the '70s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie looking to collect what he's owed for keeping his mouth shut and protecting his boss Mr. Fontaine. After a near death experience, Dom tries to re-connect with his estranged daughter, but is soon drawn back into the only world he knows, looking to settle the ultimate debt.
"The real amazement...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The Marquis de Rochambeau and his daughter, Helene, have been forced to flee the ruthless Gabrielle Damiens, otherwise known as Mademoiselle Guillotine. The Marquis begs Blakeney and his wife, the Lady Marguerite, for help in rescuing Helene.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Louis Capet, heir to the French throne, is kidnapped by a masked intruder. To save the Dauphin, Blakeney and his wife stage a public break-up, allowing her to get close to Robespierre and the Republic's authorities. She then regains the confidence of Chauvelin, her adversary and former lover, to help the Pimpernel unravel this mystery.
12) 1st night
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Wealthy industrialist Adam aspires to be an opera singer, but his friends see him as little more than a suit in a capitalist world. Adam believes that staging an opera in his lavish country home will not only end his friends' teasing, but will also win him the woman of his dreams - a female conductor who is hired for the show.
13) Dom Hemingway
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A larger-than-life safecracker with a short fuse and a long memory sets off to collect what he's owed after twelve years in prison. When his long-awaited payday goes awry, Dom tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, only to be tempted again to crack safes.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A series centered around four ordinary people who feel there is something missing in their lives; brought together by chance, they stumble into a puzzle hiding behind the veil of everyday life that opens their eyes to a new world of possibility.
15) L.A. story
Language
English
Description
A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, those who stand against him are a daring tomb robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer, winged assassins, and an undying guardian.
Publisher
TNT Originals
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Old Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest miser in London, is visited one Christmas eve by three spirits who change his life forever. Patrick Stewart stars as Scrooge in this brilliant presentation of Charles Dickens' holiday classic the most heartwarming, compelling and powerful adaptation ever filmed.
Language
English
Description
Amidst Robespierre's Reign of Terror, when the guillotine was always at the ready, the Scarlet Pimpernel defies the Revolutionaries to rescue the innocent. Yet the Pimpernel's wife, Lady Blakeney, the wittiest and most beautiful woman in London, is unaware of her husband's secret. When not disguised as his alter ego, Sir Percy Blakeley appears to be nothing but a handsome playboy. Join the Pimpernel as he risks his life for justice and Lady Blakeney...
20) Wah-wah
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of actor/director Richard E. Grant's life during the 1960s, when Swaziland was becoming independent of Great Britain. Told through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.