Tim Matheson
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season.
2) Van Wilder
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Van Wilder is a seventh year student with no plans to graduate. He has a coed in every closet and a party to go to every night. He meets reporter Gwen when she decides to do a story featuring his life on campus.
3) 1941
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one except Dean Wormer can stand. The dean enlists the help of that fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade.
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
English
Description
Apple dumpling gang: A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the kids discover a gold nugget they must fend off the greedy townspeople, so they join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold.
Apple dumpling gang rides again: Two bumbling outlaws try to go straight, but can't even seem to get that right. They make a deposit in a bank and are accused of robbing it ; they join the U.S. Cavalry...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jake Peterson is a man who has spent his life climbing the corporate ladder at a tractor corporation. He's a lonely man living in a big city. His boss has ordered massive downsizing a week before Christmas, and Jake's mission is to go back to his hometown and assess who should be fired at the local assembly plant. Complications arise when he meets Emma, a young widow whose father manages the factory.
8) Mary White
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this heart-warming true story of a loving father-daughter relationship, William Allen White reflects on the last year he spent with his daughter Mary, a young social reformer and expert horsewoman, before her untimely death.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Navy officer Frank Beardsley meets nurse Helen North there's an undeniable attraction although both are apprehensive about any potential romantic involvement, having recently lost their spouses, leaving them responsible for raising ten and eight children respectively.
10) Child's play
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Realizing that her son Andy is lonely, Karen buys him a seemingly innocent, AI-enhanced doll named Chucky. But Chucky's safety restrictions have been disabled, and soon, a gruesome series of events unfolds. Unable to convince his mom that the doll is responsible for the carnage, Andy becomes the target of the bloodthirsty Chucky!
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.