Mary Stuart Masterson
1) Look again
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something makes her look again, and her heart stops - the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was legal. But she's a journalist, and she won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth....
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was twelve and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him...
3) The quickie
Author
Language
English
Description
Plotting revenge against her unfaithful husband, NYPD cop Lauren Stillwell inadvertently triggers a series of events that spiral dangerously out of control and is forced to take a secret job that threatens everything she stands for.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road just long enough to rob her of her beloved daughter and ultimately of her new marriage, family, friends, and privacy. Now she lives in Vermont under the name Maggie Reid. She's thankful for her new friends--though she can't risk telling them too much-- and takes satisfaction in working as a makeup artist. Covering up scars is a skill she has mastered. Then a friend's teenage son is thrust into the national...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Recently fired and desperate for work so that he can keep custody of his little sister, Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But Mike soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems. Mike's nights at Freddy's will lead him into unexplainable encounters with the supernatural and drag him back into the black heart of an unspeakable nightmare." --container.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
8) Benny & Joon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
10) Whiskey school
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A playwright who drinks too much is surrounded by friends who plan to hold an intervention to get help for him.
11) Ripper
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Vain and charismatic, Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art--as well as extensive evidence--points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material--including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence, and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause--and applied cutting-edge forensic...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An ex-cop has turned his back on the big easy and the bottle, starting life over on a tranquil backwater bayou with his wife. But his newfound serenity shatters after he witnesses a small plane crash and rescues the sole survivor-a little Salvadoran girl.
13) Bed of roses
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Lisa (Masterson), a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer (Slater). When his fairytale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they find out that sometimes love conquers all.
14) Chances are
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman whose picture-perfect marriage comes to a shattering halt when her husband Louie dies unexpectedly is given a second chance when Louie agrees to be "recycled" back to earth as a newborn.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
The best little whorehouse in Texas: The town sheriff and regular patron attempts to save the legendary Chicken Ranch from a television preacher.
Smokey and the bandit: A trucker takes on a runaway bride and a trailer full of beer with a sheriff in hot pursuit.
Fried green tomatoes: An unhappy housewife befriends an elderly woman in a nursing home and hears her remarkable story.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, are busted picking pockets in a department store. Now a security guard must watch them until they're shipped off to jail after Christmas. Includes bonus CD, Family Holiday Favorites.
17) Bad girls
Language
English
Description
A wild west story of four fallen women on the run, branded as outlaws, pursued by a posse and tracked by Pinkerton detectives, but hoping to start new lives in Oregon.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Fried green tomatoes, anniversary (collector's) edition (1991, 137 min.): When an unhappy housewife befriends a lady in a nursing home, she hears a remarkable tale of laughter, devotion and a special friendship that defies all obstacles.
Coal miner's daughter, 25th anniversary edition (1980, 125 min.): The amazing true story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
19) Gardens of stone
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This war-toughened sergeant who passionately longs to train soldiers for fighting in Vietnam is assigned to the elite Old Guard. His girlfriend, a Washington Post reporter, is against the war but respects his view. The sergeant takes a zealous soldier under his wing and tries to help train him for his tour in Vietnam, but the young soldier is killed three weeks before returning from Vietnam.
20) Digging to China
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to make plans for leaving and she finally does so together with her childlike (mentally challenged) friend Ricky.