Kate Winslet
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stranded after their small plane crashes in a remote location high in the mountains, two strangers realize help is not coming so they set out across the wilderness trying to survive the elements and wild animals to save themselves.
2) Insurgent
Author
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As war surges in the dystopian society around her, Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves, and herself, while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
3) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It will take superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves, and Matilda may be just the one to do it!"--Jacket...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Photojournalist, war correspondent, model and Surrealist muse, Lee Miller was one of the most important women photographers of the twentieth century, working in the fields of photojournalism, fashion, portraiture and advertising. This book presents 100 of Miller?s finest works in a single volume.0 0Introduced to photography at an early age, Lee Miller honed her craft in Paris, where she associated with the Surrealists and avant-garde artists including...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Paris, a woman and her lover plot to kill her husband, Camille, and live comfortably off his haberdashery. However, after the lovers kill the husband and hide his body inside the haberdashery, they are continuously haunted by Camille's ghost and are slowly driven mad.
6) Wonder wheel
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Four people find their lives intersecting and changing during a busy 1950s summer at Coney Island.
7) Wonder wheel
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Four people find their lives intersecting and changing during a busy 1950s summer at Coney Island.
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Dressmaker tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong....
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
10) Quills
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum's priest.
11) Labor Day
Publisher
Right of Way/Mr. Mudd Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
12) Triple 9
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A bank robbery is just the tip of the iceberg when two cops in Atlanta start suspecting members of their own team are involved. Not knowing who to trust and how deep the corruption goes, time is ticking for them to uncover the truth; before they become the target for the next deadly job.
13) The reader
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
14) A little chaos
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
16) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
While traveling on the doomed Titanic with her mother and fiance, Rose falls in love with a poor artist.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
18) Ammonite
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
David Gale was an active member of Deathwatch, an anti-capital punishment activist group. Constance is a fellow Deathwatch activist. When Constance is found raped and murdered, Gale is convicted of the crime. Now Gale awaits execution, and with less than a week before his date with the fatal injection, Gale agrees to tell his story to Bitsy, a nervy journalist from a major newsmagazine. As she discusses the facts of the murder with Gale, it occurs...
20) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.