Thora Birch
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Exactly one year and a day after the initial Wall Street bailout, Michael Moore (SICKO, FAHRENHEIT 9/11) looks at the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy during the transition between the incoming Obama Administration and the outgoing Bush Administration. In standard Moore fashion, he mockingly draws attention to the Wall Street and Government decisions that have enabled what he calls "the biggest robbery in the history of this country."
2) Hocus pocus
Language
English
Formats
Description
After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches reign of terror once and for all.
3) The Dot
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vashti doesn't think she can draw, but her teacher encourages her to 'just make a mark and see where it takes you.' Vashti at first ventures one small and unremarkable dot, but is soon making big dots and small dots, red dots, blue dots, and purple dots. At the school art show, her entire collection of dots turns heads and wins praise"--Container insert.
4) Silver city
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A grammatically challenged, "user friendly" gubernatorial candidate named Dicky Pilager launches a rosy campaign for the citizens of the New West. But things take an unexpected turn when the taping of an environmental political ad ends up with Pilager reeling in a corpse.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides to hell with it all and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager-- his daughter's best friend.
7) Silver City
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny...
9) The dot
Author
Series
Creatrilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you."Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can't draw - she's no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says. That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti's journey of...
10) Patriot games
Language
English
Description
His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife and daughter. Meeting them outside Buckingham Palace, Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family. But Ryan's courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorists.
11) 13 Minutes
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...
12) Now and then
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming comedy about the childhood mischief of four best friends who reunite after twenty years.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO's Succession) is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
15) Ghost world
Series
Criterion collection volume 872
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the relationship between directionless best friends Enid and Becky, and their adventures the summer after graduating high school.
16) Above Suspicion
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A newly married FBI agent is drawn into an illicit affair with his star informant, resulting in a scandal that endangers all his investigations.
17) American beauty
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
American beauty: The lives and marriage of a seemingly ordinary couple begin slowly unraveling. The virgin suicides: Five teenaged sisters who are isolated by their over-protective parents become engulfed in a stunning chain of events.