Jennifer Ehle
Author
Language
English
Description
Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless...
Author
Series
Practical magic volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and...
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Detective Abel Grey is called to investigate the death of a prep school student in the nearby river. Initially ruled as a suicide, Grey suspects that it was from a hazing incident gone too far. One sympathetic teacher offers her help in the case.
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The moral codes of a multi-generational family of New York City police officers are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law.
"A top-notch cast...performances that rank among their best work."--Hollywood Reporter
"Intelligently directed, beautifully shot..."--Newsday
"Well-paced, well-acted..."--Denver Post
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary true tale of madness, genius, and obsession about two remarkable men who created history with the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary. The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857 and was one of the most ambitious and revolutionary projects ever undertaken. Professor James Murray took on the challenge of creating the most comprehensive dictionary ever compiled but knew that it would take him and his team over...
9) Little men
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
10) Zero dark thirty
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
11) She said
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Author
Series
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Composed at the end of Shakespeare's career, the play contains some of his most lyrical dramatic verse.
Language
English
Description
Georgian England, where affairs of the heart are an exquisite game, and marriage the ultimate prize. But Elizabeth Bennet spirited, independent, and one of five unmarried sisters, is determined to wed for love, not money or privilege. Featuring over an hour of never-before-seen bonus features.
14) Before the rains
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village, and his past. Loyalties are tested and destinies decided as two worlds collide.
15) A little chaos
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Bennett, a spirited and independent young woman, is the subject of her mother's obsessive goal to marry off her five daughters to the wealthiest gentlemen available. Mrs Bennett's plan is compromised with the arrival of the proud and enigmatic Mr Darcy, as he and Lizzie embark on one of the most famous and compelling romances in history.
17) Wilde
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
18) Paradise road
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
19) Saint Maud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient's soul, but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ana is an inexperienced college student tasked with interviewing enigmatic billionaire Christian Grey. But what starts as business quickly becomes an unconventional romance. Swept up in Christian's glamorous lifestyle, Ana soon finds another side to him as she discovers his secrets and explores her own dark desires. What results is a thrilling, all-consuming romance as Christian and Ana test the limits they will go to for their relationship.