Sarah Greene
Author
Pub. Date
1883.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Pratt McLean Greene was an American regionalist writer whose novels of local life were set in New England and the western United States.
McLean was educated at private schools and then at Mount Holyoke Seminary (the precursor to Mount Holyoke College). In 1874, after two years at the seminary, she went to teach in the Cedarville, Massachusetts, school system for a year.
On returning home, Greene turned her experiences as a teacher into a quasi-autobiographical...
2) Rosie
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
36 hours with Rosie and her recently homeless family, as they try to maintain a normal life and stay afloat as their options run out. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**.
3) Black '47
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One soldier's ruthless pursuit of justice plays out against the darkest chapter of Irish history in this riveting revenge thriller. Starring Hugo Weaving and Jim Broadbent.
4) Noble
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Christina Noble, who leaves the slums of her childhood in Ireland to work for the welfare of the street children of Vietnam.
5) Black '47
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One man's ruthless pursuit of justice plays out against the darkest chapter of Irish history in this riveting revenge thriller. In 1847, battle-hardened soldier Feeney deserts the British army to return home to Ireland, where he finds his country ravaged beyond recognition by the Great Famine. When he discovers that his mother has died of starvation and his brother has been hanged by the British, something snaps, sending Feeney on a relentless quest...
8) Roadkill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Laurence is a political outsider who is very popular with the people. Fresh from a successful libel case against a journalist printing stories alleging corruption, he's a man on the rise. But Peter has plenty of skeletons in his closet. And soon he discovers another - an illegitimate daughter serving a prison sentence. It's a secret that could ruin him. And one, apparently, that his Prime Minister already knows. But Peter is a risktaker. With...
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