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1) Double down
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley's mom wants him to take a break from video games while Halloween approaches and he comes up with an idea to make a movie.
2) The cast
Author
Language
English
Description
Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected read followed by fans across the country. She loves her work and adores her grown children, treasuring the time they spend together. But after two marriages, she prefers to avoid the complications and uncertainties of a new love. Then, after a chance meeting with Zack Winter, a television producer visiting Manhattan from Los Angeles, everything changes. Inspired by the true story...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1980, a group of authority-defying comedy geniuses from Saturday Night Live, the Second City improv troupe, and the National Lampoon magazine created the funniest sports movie ever made. Maybe the funniest movie ever made, period. This timeless snobs-versus-slobs story of working-class kids and the white-collar buffoons who make them carry their golf bags in the hot summer sun has sex, drugs, and one very memorable candy bar. But...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's preached. Fizzy hasn't ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can't-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she's spent...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Winona Farmington once dreamed of graduating from college, moving to New York City, and pursuing a career in publishing. Then real life got in the way when she left college and returned to her small Michigan hometown to care for her sick mother. Years later, stuck in a dead-end job and an unsatisfying relationship, Winnie has concluded that dreams were meant for others. On the day Winnie is passed over for a long-overdue promotion, she is also betrayed...
9) Junior Bonner: the making of a classic with Steve Mcqueen and Sam Peckinpah in the summer of 1971
Author
Publisher
BearManor Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook's memoir about making the classic film on the American west. Originally released as a major motion picture in 1972, Junior Bonner is a rowdy modern-day western about a young, drifting rodeo star who decides to raise money for his father's ranch by challenging a formidable bull.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Dowager Countess reveals she has a villa in the south of France, and many of the family follow her there for a rest while some of the family stay behind to keep an eye on the cast and crew of a film which is shooting at the grand estate.
11) Dancing lady
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A Broadway chorine needs a little help with her hoofing, so her dance director gets an idea. A good idea. "Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?" And Fred Astaire, making his screen debut, shows the lady how it's done. Three film icons give the backstage musical a jolt of superstar electricity in a song-, dance-, and romance-filled extravaganza.--Container
12) Argo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still felt today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a mid-level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen King Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Muppets In Moscow reveals how-in between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow-a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented hit in a post-communist era"--
Between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow, a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented...
16) Married lovers
Author
Language
English
Description
Three high-powered Hollywood couples, two hot affairs, one underage Russian ex-hooker, a passionate murder—and the players' lives are changed forever in bestselling Jackie Collins's Married Lovers
Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, flees her abusive boyfriend in Australia and ends up in L.A. Cameron soon gets a job at a private fitness club where she encounters the city's most
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball-especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner's leading man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and...
18) Hitchcock
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife, Alma, as he sets out to make the film.
19) Ziegfeld follies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show. A who's who of credited and uncredited Hollywood talents.
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