Charles Baxter
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), Charles Baxter, a timely and unsettling new novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. Brettigan's son, a once promising actor, has gone missing, and despite the fact that his wife, Alma, knows he left on purpose, she has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places, churches,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Bradley is the owner of a coffee shop in Oregon. He thinks his marriage is idyllic, that is until his wife, Kathryn, leaves him for another woman. One of Bradley's baristas falls head over heels for a girl who comes looking for a job, but his abusive father spells trouble for the relationship. Finally, a professor and his wife struggle to find purpose in life in the aftermath of a personal tragedy.
9) Gryphon
Series
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ricky, a tough Hispanic boy in an inner-city school, finds his life transformed by a mysterious and magical substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi. She shows him the often overlooked beauty and magic in the world and his potential to accomplish his dreams, and with her help Ricky and his friends learn to value each other.