Mare Winningham
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer life, in a better neighborhood. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William 'Blockade Billy' Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
*Now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*
The “haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” (The New York Times), Lisey’s Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.
Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and...
The “haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” (The New York Times), Lisey’s Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.
Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 53
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
6) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young divorcee, Mildred Pierce, rises up out of poverty to become a successful business woman in spite of hardships and her selfish daughter. This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the...
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Gold Crown collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When Margaret Ryder, the hearing daughter of deaf parents, grows up during the Great Depression, she alone is the link between Mama and Papa's silent world and the hearing world they do not fully understand...and it does not understand them. Her youth is spent sacrificing friendships and romance as she struggles to keep her parents' deafness a secret from everyone who knows her. Torn between the responsibility she feels for her parents and her own...
11) Brothers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam's Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam's charismatic younger brother steps in to fill the family void.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Stephen King thrills with this story of a woman who, touched by an intense personal tragedy, escapes the life she knows to inhabit an isolated stretch of beach on Vermillion Key. There, running obsessively, she happens to pass by the wrong house at the wrong time and what she sees horrifies her. Now an unwilling participant in a dangerous man's game, she must fight to survive another day.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1979, 24-year-old Maura O'Halloran moved to Japan and became the first woman ever admitted to Toshoji Temple. Soshin-san (O'Halloran's monastic name) labored through three intense years of work and study in preparation for becoming a dharma teacher. Her life ended abruptly during a trip to Thailand, and today Soshin-san is revered as a Buddhist saint. The material in this program is from her private and heartfelt journals and letters. They eloquently...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
[Widescreen format]; original uncut version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s. After returning from the Civil War, two men spark a feud between their families that leads to battles and causes the families and their neighbors to seek vengeance against each other.
Author
Publisher
Legacy
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 CD : Caudio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A full-length musical theater piece, written and directed by Conor McPherson, which boldly reimagines the songs of Bob Dylan in provocative new dramatic contexts. All lyrics and music in the show are by Bob Dylan except for two co-writes. The Original Broadway Cast performing Girl from the North Country includes Todd Almond, Jeannette Bayardelle, Caitlin Houlahan, Robert Joy, Tony Award nominee Marc Kudisch, Luba Mason, Matt McGrath, Jay O. Sanders,...
16) Wyatt Earp
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The dramatized biography of the legendary Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Near the end of World War II, pregnant Olivia Dunne is forced into marriage and banished to a remote Colorado farm, where she develops a relationship with her new husband and with two Japanese-American sisters living in a nearby internment camp.
18) George Wallace
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
George Wallace was an infamous politician and segregationist. He had a lust for power and status that made him bedfellows with racists and became one of the most destructive and most hated American politicians of his time. Follows George from his early days as a state circuit judge to his presidential run, when he was paralyzed by a would-be assassin.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Skyler Day stars as Ociee Nash, a spirited nine-year-old from rural Mississippi. Ociee's idyllic life is thrown into a tailspin when she's sent to live with her Aunt Mamie to become 'a young lady'.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This inspirational movie by first-time director Salma Hayek, tells the story of a spiritually and financially bankrupt town in need of hope, until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.