Carey Mulligan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman...until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
3) She said
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancé, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
6) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
7) Shame
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen; [without special features]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
8) Shame
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Victorian English countryside, a headstrong young woman toys with the affections of three very different men with tragic consequences.
10) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles; some of them of his own making.
12) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
High definition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (142 min.) : Blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On 1920s Long Island, a dashing enigmatic millionaire becomes obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
13) Drive
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
14) Drive
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
15) An education
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
16) One more thing
Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
©2014
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 CDss (420 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the heart of the collection is the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that just might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in the collection are unique, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new...
18) The greatest
Publisher
National Entertainment Media ; Port Washington, N. Y
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three months after Allen and Grace's son dies, a young woman shows up pregnant with his child. At first her arrival threatens to tear the family further apart, but eventually she proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.
19) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
Criterion Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition] ; widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his father loses his job and leaves to fight wildfires, a teenage boy is left to cope with his mother's reaction to their situation.
20) Northanger Abbey
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.