Mary-Louise Parker
1) Dear Mr. You
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
3) Red: 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses rejoins his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, THE SAME STORM presents viewers with an intimate, emotional glimpse into the lives of twenty-four characters as they make it through the spring and summer of 2020. Each character is dealt with challenges that many people were forced to face during the pandemic in what felt to many like a living nightmare. With COVID, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the looming 2020 election as key backdrops, the film takes...
5) Jamesy Boy
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young gang member turns his life around in prison, thanks to the friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After her husband's unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she's selling, even city councilman Doug Wilson, Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her best friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The last time we saw Nancy and the Botwins, it was through the scope of a hitman's rifle. Nancy had sprung from the joint and gone to New York City, where she made a fresh start doing what she does best: selling pot and making enemies. Now everyone's wondering who put out the hit, and who got smoked.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
New York, New High! After serving three years in the joint, the onetime suburban soccer mom is making a fresh start in New York City and going back to doing what she does best: selling pot. But when some old friends return, they could send everything up in flames.
9) The Client
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a boy witnesses the suicide of a Mafia attorney he must hire a troubled attorney to protect himself from the Mafia and the federal prosecutors. Based on John Grisham's best selling novel. This title has been Repackaged.
10) Red
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
"The actors have considerable fun with it..."--Michael Phillips
"This breezy action comedy is a noisy...
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
12) Howl
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
James Franco delivers a career-defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes *Howl*, and must contend with attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) during *Howl’s* bizarre obscenity trial. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Film...
13) Rachel Carson
Series
American experience volume Season 29 \ Episode 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the natural world and passion for writing with personal strife....
15) Grand Canyon
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involving their families and friends for years to come."--Container.
17) Weeds: Season 6
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Season 6 of this highly acclaimed series turns over a new leaf when pot-selling soccer mom Nancy Botwin tries to leave behind her illegal operations. Includes the complete Season 6 with all 13 episodes.
18) Red dragon
Language
English
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Children Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace move into a secluded old estate, and notice that strange things start happening. Now it's up to them to learn the unbelievable truth about the house, and of the amazing creatures that inhabit it.
"A well-crafted family thriller that is truly scary and doesn't wimp out."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"An enjoyable adventure fantasy that pushes all the requisite buttons while still managing to throw in a...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Nancy is pregnant with the child of a powerful politician turned dangerous drug lord, or is she? Doug and Silas are trying to branch out on their own, Andy is looking to score, and Celia attempts to turn the tables on her kidnappers. With enemies out to smoke the Queen of Green, Nancy's sure to find a whole new crop of trouble.