Joan Allen
Author
Language
English
Description
State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...
2) Bird cloud
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Part family history, part naturalist's journal-and her first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years- Bird Cloud is Annie Proulx's vivid chronicle of building a house on a spectacularly beautiful piece of land in Wyoming. Idiosyncratic, original, and spectacularly vivid, Bird Cloud was conceived as a book about building a house and then became a family history, an archaeology of the Wyoming landscape, and as close to memoir as Annie Proulx will...
4) In Country
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Bruce Willis stars as a Vietnam War veteran and uncle of a 19-year-old Kentucky girl trying to learn about her father, who was killed in the war before she was born, in this gentle, but probing story of overcoming loss, grief and the horror of war.
5) Manhunter
Series
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Three years after leaving the police force, Will Graham is begged by an old colleague to return, to help track down a murderer who operates at full moon and has murdered two entire families. Endowed with a sixth sense, Graham has never used conventional ways to find psychopaths. Instead, he has developed a method which is dangerous for his own mental health for it allows him to be accepted by people with deranged minds and enables him to construct...
7) Face/off
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A Federal agent assumes the identity of a presumed dead terrorist who killed his son. When the terrorist wakes up he assumes the identity of the agent. Bonus features include additional scenes, commentary, and more.
8) Ethan Frome
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000-2009?]
Language
English
Description
Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another.
9) In country
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Teenager Samantha Hughes of Hopewell, KY, is pretty, headstrong, and curious. About the father she never knew, and about the war that took him away. The war nobody wants to remember.
10) The crucible
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, a group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams wishes for the death of her former lover's wife. When the ceremony is witnessed by one of the town's ministers, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aaron Cross is an agent groomed by the government program that also unleashed Jason Bourne, but with a few new wrinkles. Cross is busy training in Alaska when he's caught in a tsunami of hurt, thus beginning a frantic search for answers to who and what he is.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once again, Jason Bourne emerges from hiding and into chaos. His return this time prompted inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Ross's writing is unveiling Operation Blackbriar--an upgrade to Project Treadstone--in a series of newspaper columns which have woken, and profoundly disturbed, Bourne's former masters. Bourne must uncover and eradicate the sources of their paranoia, before they eradicate him. Clawing his way out of madness,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The heartwarming true story of a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station everyday and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Even after his master passed away, he continued to return to the same spot at the station every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits he touched many lives and taught the local people about love, compassion, and above...
15) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bourne continues to have nightmares from his former life. He maneuvers through international espionage, CIA plots, and turncoat agents, hoping to unravel the truth behind his memories and his own past that he cannot remember.
17) A good marriage
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A sadistic serial killer is spreading fear across the northeast, taunting the police as his victim's pile up, Darcy Anderson and her husband Bob are celebrating another year of a good marriage, but when Darcy unveils a sinsiter secret about her husband, it threatens their perfect marriage - and lives"--Container.
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics. Denny Davies, retired baseball player, is a flabby, lackadaisical...
Author
Publisher
Propriometrics Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As seen on the Today Show, Dynamic Aging isn't that same old senior fitness, senior stretching, senior strength book you've seen again and again. This book is about using simple exercises to feel better and get back to living vitally no matter your age.
Don't blame your age if you're feeling creaky. It could just be the way you're using (or not using) your body. ―Washington Post on Dynamic Aging as a Book for the Ages
Movement is a powerful tool...
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Manhunter: A retired detective enters the dreams of a serial killer in order to catch him and almost loses his own sanity.
Silence of the lambs: A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.
Hannibal: It has been seven years since Hannibal Lecter escaped, and when one of his victims seeks revenge on him FBI agent Clarice Starling...