Anjelica Huston
Author
Language
English
Description
In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early life-her enchanted childhood in Ireland, living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse. Huston was raised on an Irish estate to which-between movies-her father, director John Huston, brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O'Toole and Marlon Brando.
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Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom, her work with the greatest directors in Hollywood, her love affair with her husband, and much more. Anjelica Huston was twenty-nine years old and trying to create a place for herself as an actress in Hollywood when the director Tony Richardson said to her: "'Poor little you. So much talent and so little to show for it. You're never...
Author
Language
English
Description
Caustic wit, man about town, James McNeill Whistler was the original art star. Famous for his patent leather shoes, monocle, and uptown swagger, Whistler's theatrics attracted the curiosity of buyers and the attention of the critics. But beneath the high gloss and mannered style, the struggle of this pioneering genius to find his own voice resulted in a breakaway style that moved painting towards abstraction and would revolutionize the art world in...
7) The grifters
Series
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2002], p1985
Language
English
Description
Three con-artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner
8) When in Rome
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter, and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?
9) 50/50
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other. Their "spiritual quest," however, veers rapidly off-course thanks in part to over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray. Eventually the three find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. From...
11) The dead
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family ... if he can
15) The witches
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up her life
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
★"Robust and engaging...Sure to be a hit with both children writing reports and those who enjoy books about animal companions and adventurous work. A must for school and public libraries."—Booklist, starred review
With their precise sense of smell, their hardworking temperament and their ability to bond with humans, dogs increasingly lend their paws and noses to fixing some of the most complex environmental problems
...20) Behaving Badly
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Series
Language
English
Description
The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.