Jennifer Beals
Author
Language
English
Description
When Sarah, a lonely and deeply troubled woman, inadvertently enters an AA meeting, she is embraced by its members who believe that she too is an alcoholic. What the meeting is all about, she doesn't know... her motive for going to the community center was to meet face-to-face with Charlie, a handsome man who she has seen regularly standing in front of the center, adjacent to her apartment window, before entering what she supposes is some sort of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of a world-famous 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer--and the secret reasons behind their dramatic break up. Daisy Jones is a beautiful, broken girl growing up in L.A. with rich parents who barely know she exists.... But when she sings in a crowded, smoky club, you can hear a pin drop. All she wants is to write her own songs, but the record studio has its own ideas. It's the early 1970s and...
9) Flashdance
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A young female welder dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer, trying out her original routines every night at a local bar.
10) Cinderella
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Interpretive fairy tale of the young girl whose fairy godmother helps her win the love of the prince despite her evil stepmother and two stepsisters.
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
1. Epicenter: A detective assigned to transport a dangerous mobster discovers that she has been set-up to fail. 2. Slipstream: A bounty hunter will have to face the law, a religious cult that holds the wind sacred and the unknowns of the slipstream. -- 3. To survive: A post-apocalyptic thriller about a heartbroken man and his new friends who must together battle marauders in order to survive in a new lawless world. -- 4. The chain reaction: An earthquake...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Silent Night, America's most beloved writer of suspense has crafted a very special story about the power of love, and of a child's courage and faith. When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boys from worry about their father, and to temper her own near despair, on Christmas Eve Catherine takes...
13) Caro diario
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Director Nanni Moretti plays himself in this beloved comedy, told as three chapters from the filmmaker's diary: musing on cinema atop a Vespa, exiling himself to the Aeolian Islands to work on a new screenplay, and mourning his ailing health. Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and two David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film.
14) Catch that kid
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Meet Maddy, Gus and Austin: three kids on a mission! They're three close friends with special talents. One is a champion rock climber, one is a computer genius and the other is a mechanical whiz who specializes in go-carts. Their task: to scale the heights and crack a high-tech bank vault to save Maddy's ailing Dad, but they have to do all this in time to finish their homework.