Richard Pearce
4) Plainsong
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Gold crown collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A heartbroken husband has been abandoned by his wife with two boys to raise. His sympathetic colleague cares for her ailing father. A pregnant high school girl is thrown out of her house with nowhere to go. A couple of bachelors set in their ways face a life-altering challenge. Gradually drawn together through simple acts of kindness and humanity, their paths are indelibly interwoven. With courage and tenacity, they redefine their lives, ease each...
5) No mercy
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Out to avenge the death of his partner, tough cop Jillette kidnaps the murderer's girlfriend and flees with her into the bayous of Louisiana.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Odessa Cotter, a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson, chooses to honor the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott by walking the nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers Odessa a ride. Defying Miriam's husband and the town council and finding their lives threatened because of it, they manage to find common ground and forge a lasting friendship.
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Steve Martin plays Reverend Jonas Nightengale, a slick-as-oil flimflam man who'll trade salvation for a donation to his touring ministry. Jonas knows how to work a crowd and a con, but his works of wonder are done with mirrors and smoke. When his tour bus breaks down, Jonas pitches his tent in impoverished Rustwater, Kansas. While his manager (Debra Winger) tries to pursuade the local sheriff not to close the show, Jonas set his sights on a beautiful...
8) Heartland
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-- a strange land and life with a man they have never met. Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near Burntfork, Wyoming. Captivated by the vast landscape, Elinore acts quickly on her secret passion: to homestead a piece of land of her own. But fulfilling her year's contract...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Odessa Cotter, is a quiet, dignified woman who works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson. When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband, and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for civil rights.
10) A family thing
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When an Arkansas man learns that he has an Afro-American half-brother he travels to Chicago to meet him. With the help of their Aunt T the men work through long-held grudges and prejudices.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg is Odessa Cotter, a quietly dignified woman, who works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek). When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband (Dwight Schultz) and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for...
12) South pacific
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Critics and audiences adore this breathtaking version of the beloved classic musical.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hamlet is commonly, regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father's death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then, appears and...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The out-of-towners: Follows the misadventures of a Midwestern couple as they attempt to navigate New York City.
Leap of faith: A fraudulent faith healer and his entourage find themselves stranded in a small Kansas town, where they attempt to con the townspeople with their high-tech revival shows.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Scenes of the crime : When a routine delivery escalates into kidnapping, young mob driver, Lenny, finds himself holding the city's most powerful gangster hostage in a van on the busy streets of Los Angeles. But everything goes wrong when the boss is killed by a rival kingpin.
Relentless : A rejected candidate to the Los Angeles Police Dept. Academy takes revenge by committing a string of murders.
No mercy : Out to avenge the death of his partner,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
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