Zosia Mamet
Author
Language
English
Description
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble—caught...
2) The lawgiver
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and comedy veteran Judd Apatow, this scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something women in New York and their adventures in post-collegiate floundering. Over the course of Season 1's ten episodes, the four girls try to figure out what they want from life, from boys, from themselves and each other.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something's in NYC. Season Two episodes, Hannah forges ahead in her writing pursuits, but her enthusiasm is tempered by the responsibility for Adam; Marnie needs her best friend and former roommate; Jessa returns from her honeymoon in Mexico; Shoshanna takes charge of her new identity; and Ray has an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A New York-based, globe-trotting flight attendant with a devil-may-care attitude and a history of binge drinking relishes flying off at a moment's notice to her next great adventure. But Cassie's glamorous world is thrown into a tailspin when she wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Haunted by the bleak future she faces if she doesn't clear her name, Cassie scrambles to put together the pieces...
8) Wiener dog
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man's best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog...
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English
Formats
Description
" From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives. Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter one's feelings about a particular dish, they are hardly ever neutral. In MY FIRST POPSICLE, Zosia Mamet...
10) Bleeding heart
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Reserved yoga instructor May lives a peaceful, clean-living life with her boyfriend. Her carefully maintained equilibrium is thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost sister Shiva; a street-smart yet naive young woman caught working the streets and in an abusive relationship. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva but as she takes steps to pull Shiva back from the edge she finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and comedy veteran Judd Apatow, this scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something women in New York and their adventures in post-collegiate floundering. Over the course of Season 1's ten episodes, the four girls try to figure out what they want; from life, from boys, from themselves and each other.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the fourth season the girls are tentatively edging toward maturity as they take on new personas in new worlds. As the season begins, Hannah leaves New York to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the hopes of becoming a more serious writer, while confronting uncertainty in her relationship with Adam. Meanwhile, back in New York, Marnie pursues a music career while balancing her professional and romantic relationship with Desi; Shoshanna...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A binge-drinking flight attendant wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body and sneaks back to her work, telling a series of lies that complicate her ability to figure out what really happened. The events cause her to sober up, and her cover allows her to work for the CIA, but witnessing an international murder doesn't seem to get any easier even when you're being paid for it.
14) The last keepers
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
When the teenage daughter of the last survivors of an ancient line of Goddess worshipers falls in love with a poetic boy at school she awakens mysterious magical powers of her own and discovers family secrets that will change her life forever.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the final days of exuberant and notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as he sets out on a final poetry tour in New York. Desperate for money and with a wife and three children dependent on him, Thomas accepts the job believing it is beneath him. He spends his time in the city drinking at the White House Tavern and becoming increasingly ill between the poetry readings. Everything comes to a head when he goes on a bender so extreme...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Sing-along edition.
Language
English
Description
Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers: Floyd, John Dory, Spruce, and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The album that accompanies the DreamWorks Animation film of the same name. Multi-award-winning artist Justin Timberlake returns as the soundtrack's executive music producer alongside Grammy award-winning producer/songwriter Mike Elizondo. Timberlake wrote and performed new original music for the film, which also includes music from the cast and some of today's top artists including Kid Cudi, Camila Cabello, Troye Sivan, Anna Kendrick and more. It...
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