Molly Ringwald
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Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.
When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson--"the French Brokeback Mountain" (Elle)--about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I'm frightened...
7) Malicious
Pub. Date
1995, 2007.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
An anonymous encounter with a dangerously beautiful stranger turns a college athlete's comfortable world around. After an uninhibited encounter with the mysterious Melissa, Doug returns to his girlfriend, Laura, but Melissa has other plans. Believing she loves Doug, despite his rejection, she ingeniously chips away at his idyllic life, stopping at nothing, not even murder, to get her revenge. But when Melissa focuses her deadly sights on Laura,...
9) King Cobra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay porn mogul who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video from his seemingly ordinary suburban home. But as Brent's rise and demands for more money put him at odds with his boss, he also attracts the attention of a rival producer and his unstable...
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m. they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends.
11) Pretty in pink
Series
Language
English
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Description
She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.
12) Betsy's wedding
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betsy's wedding is a funny, feel good movie about a wonderfully eccentric family and their hilarious trials and tribulations. It's about everything but their daughter's wedding! Anything can and does happen when the freespirited bride-to-be casually announces her engagement, setting off a series of crazy events, including accidental meetings with the mafia, oddball romances and rioutous schemes! Betsy's wedding is the perfit hit.
14) Sixteen candles
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
It's Sam's sweet sixteen birthday and no one in her family remembers the important occasion. She's an average teen who endures creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the beautiful blonde who stands between her and the boy of her dreams.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
30th anniversay edition.
Language
English
Description
Five high school students-- a Rebel, an Athlete, a Brain, a Princess and a Basketcase-- find themselves thrown together serving a Saturday morning detention. They do not have much in common, except giving up their day, sitting in the school library, and writing an essay for the principal. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some of the Rebel's marijuana, they begin to pour their hearts out to each other. They talk about their...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A memoir and tribute to the late French actress, best known for playing Jeanne in the controversial film Last Tango in Paris, shows how this role led her to live the rest of her life plagued by scandal, revealing how exploitation has lingering effects that can reverberate through a lifetime.
17) Sixteen candles
Language
English
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Description
Samantha Baker is ready to make the most of her sweet sixteenth birthday, but only if someone, anyone from her family would just remember it. For her birthday, she has to endure creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the beauty who stands in the way of the boy of her dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Fleeing her family home in Wisconsin in the wake of a tragedy that compels her to pursue her acting career in golden-age Hollywood, Elsa enjoys the heady extravagances of her fame while struggling to remain true to herself and balance the needs of her family.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
The definitive 2-series collection.
Language
English
Description
Stephen King's The stand (1994): Originally broadcast as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population.
The stand (2020): When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world's population, the embattled survivors struggle to make...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Relive the emotional drama of The Secret Life of the American Teenager as the critically acclaimed series reaches new heights. Amy and Ben try to rekindle their romance, but things get complicated when Ben discovers Adrian is pregnant with his child. As Adrian agonizes over whether to keep the baby, Ben struggles to tell Amy the truth.
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