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Carrie Preston
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's the mid-'50s, and Guy Stone is a very successful movie star. Tall, good-looking, and boyishly charming, Stone has a reputation as a ladies' man, but in reality he prefers the company of men. When his handlers decide he must marry a naive young secretary, he makes the most out of his sham marriage. That is, until he meets Rick Foster and falls in real love.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of one afternoon, in six different parts of L.A., six couples connect, reconnect, or fall apart. Marked by nimble shifts in tone (the six stories range from romping farce to emotionally gutting drama) and a potent combination of innovative cinematic storytelling and evergreen themes of the difficulties and ultimate resiliency of love in all its many forms, SIX L.A. LOVE STORIES is an indie *Love Actually* for our time. Winner of Best...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker -- and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner of Merlotte's who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiance, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the mysterious and ancient Warlow.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The seventh and final season of this supernatural drama series from HBO. In the end, some of True Blood's most beloved figures will meet cruel fates, while others will cheat death (true and otherwise) to forge happily-ever-after relationships that will leave fans surprised and, ultimately, satisfied.
12) Glimpse
Author
Language
English
Description
A very unique and stressful job interview where someone is watching the whole thing. And someone else is watching them watch.
13) A Bag of Hammers
Author
Language
English
Description
In this offbeat comedy, two slacker buddies befriend a street-smart kid who wants to join their larcenous valet parking business. When they discover the kid is neglected, they have to decide if they're ready to become responsible adults in order to protect him.
14) Space Oddity
Author
Language
English
Description
A man seeks the help from an insurance company to plan a one-way trip to Mars.