(0)Natasha Richardson
1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
Series
Shout select volume 15
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
5) Evening
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who is Harris and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her...
6) Widows' peak
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a stranger moves to Widows' Peak, she turns the town upside down with her devious lies and shocking secrets. She seduces the men, enrages the women, and unleases a major scandal, but its all part of an astonishing plan.
7) Nell
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. When civilization enters her life, Nell's life will never be the same again.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A struggling single mom takes a job as a chambermaid at a luxury hotel in New York. She meets and falls in love with a suave and sophisticated heir to an American political dynasty, who mistakes her for a society woman. When her real identity is revealed, the reality about their seperate lives sets in.
9) Gothic
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In 1816, a sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of horror and madness. Lord Byron and Percy Shelly, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, her stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears and share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night.
10) Blow dry
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A British hair-styling contest comes to a small town where the local mayor begs a town hairdresser to get involved in the contest.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The cherry orchard: Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
Talking to a stranger: A grown-up brother and sister go home to visit their elderly parents, but a series of emotional developments lead to shocking resolutions. Consists of four episodes,...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011].
Language
English
Description
Daddy & them: Struggling musician Claude and his wife Ruby get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel has been accused of murder and is in jail awaiting trial. Claude and Ruby head for the Arkansas town where they grew up, and, before long, there's a friendly (and sometimes not-so-friendly) war of words among the factions of the family, including Claude's mother Jewel, father O.T., and sister Rose.
Waking up in Reno : Roy and Candy and Lonnie Earl and...
