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Series
Studio classic volume 17
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
23) Fly away home
Pub. Date
c2001, 1996
Language
English
Description
A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them h5ow to fly.
24) Rosemary's baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby."
25) Wonder
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
29) The choice
Pub. Date
♭2016.
Language
English
Description
Travis is a fun-loving, smooth-talking bachelor who's never considered a serious relationship--until he falls hard for his beautiful new neighbor, Gabby. But when fate threatens Travis and Gabby's love, Travis must make a choice that will alter their lives forever in this unforgettably moving romance.
30) Gypsy
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Story of how Louise Hovick rises from behind her little sister's shadow, Dainty June and vaudeville to become the 1930's burlesque queen, Gypsy Rose Lee.
31) The country girl
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Frank Elgin is an alcoholic actor and singer who gets a second change at stardom. His long suffering wife, Georgie, and their marriage is put to the test. Frank is desperate to make a come back and Bernie Dodd is the hotshot Broadway director in need of a "name" star for his new stage production. Georgie is both weary of her husband's weaknesses and Dodd's motives. When Georgie appears to be dragging Frank down, Bernie tries to force her to leave....
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the fast track and ready to taste the success of corporate America, John Crowley walks away from it all in hopes of finding a cure for two of his fatally ill children. With his wife Aileen by his side, he teams up with brilliant, but unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill, and together they form a company to develop a life-saving drug. But just when it appears that a solution may be found, the relationship between the men is tested and...
34) The glass castle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dialogue editing is a crucial yet invisible part of filmmaking. Do it right, and no one notices. Do it wrong, and your film or video sounds messy, distracting, and unrealistic. This is a book for people who need to edit production sound for film, TV, or video but were never taught how to do it. It goes step by step through the process and covers all the workflows you are likely to encounter. Efficient working practices are emphasized throughout, so...
36) The last song
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
37) Payback
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Widescreen. Mel Gibson is Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist betray him.
38) Antkind: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Covers literary adaptations in four main categories: classic literature; contemporary bestsellers and popular fiction; nonfiction, encompassing biography, true crime, history, and memoirs; and children's and young adult literature. Sidebars will highlight people, such as authors, film directors, screenwriters, actors, producers, who are particularly identified with adaptation or a particular work.
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