Stanley Tucci
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--
"Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York; preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia; falling in love...
Author
Series
Dell book volume 3148
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
4) Shrek!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 670L
Language
English
Description
Shrek, a horrid ogre, goes out into the world to find adventure and along the way encounters a witch, a knight in armor, a dragon and, finally a hideous princess who is even uglier than he is!
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Stanley Tucci's association with wonderful foods began for fans with the movie Big Night and resonated in his role as Julia Child's husband in Julie & Julia. But well before these films, he was enjoying innovative homemade Italian meals throughout his childhood, when family and food were nearly inseparable and cooking was always a familial venture. Now, in a completely new, family-focused cookbook, Tucci captivates food lovers' imaginations with recipes...
Series
Publisher
WNET Thirteen Productions LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in with his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. Narrated by Stanley Tucci and directed by Robert Trachtenberg, this film explores the life and legend of this iconic performer, revealing a personality far more complex than the image the public had only thought they'd known.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
11) The good German
Author
Language
English
Description
An American journalist returns to Berlin in 1945 for the Potsdam Conference and to find his German mistress, the married woman he left behind, only to stumble on a murdered American soldier, corruption, and intrigue.
12) Supernova
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jim Grant is a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. Grant's world is turned upside down when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.
14) Fortitude
Series
Publisher
Fifty Fathoms Productions ; Tiger Aspect Productions ; British Sky Broadcasting Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Citizens living in Fortitude, an Arctic town hailed as the safest place on Earth, are rocked to the core by the murder of one of their own. A detective is quickly flown in from out-of-town to assist the local Chief of Police with the investigation of the town's first-ever violent crime and the two men must work together despite the deep mistrust each has for the other.
Publisher
MJZ ; Go Productions ; SVM, LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession.
18) Final portrait
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, renowned artist Alberto Giacometti requests for the writer James Lord to become the subject of one of his portraits. Although this seems like an innocent suggestion at first, Lord is quickly drawn into the strange web of Giacometti's beautiful, controversial and difficult world. The portrait sitting becomes so much more than what it seems at face value, and Lord's entire life sits on the precipice due to his association with the wildly...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Miranda, editor of "Runway" magazine, is a terror to everyone around her. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda hires her as second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy to dig it up in order to please her boss. With the help...
20) Shall we dance?
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.