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1) "I take your hand in mine--": a play suggested by the love letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
vii, 59 p. : ports. ; 22 cm.
4) Mother!
Description
After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer decides coming to terms with his mom will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with his mom.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a famous author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to manage the women, along with her literary agent, who is impatient to find out about her next book.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fourteen years ago, he had two names: Harry Caine, the pseudonym he used for his literary works, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, which he used to direct films. But that was before the accident when he lost his sight and his beloved Lena. Now he goes only by Harry Caine. If he can't direct films, he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his Lena. When he is given the chance to tell his story, he can't refuse.
11) Take this waltz
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author, but when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
12) Sibyl
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lacking inspiration for her new novel, psychotherapist Sibyl borrows source material from her newest patient Margot, blurring fiction and reality, past and present, personal and professional.
14) Summerland
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
15) Magpie murders
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway's latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.
16) Black butterfly
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paul, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
17) Beloved sisters
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of an unconventional romance between two aristocratic sisters and rebellious poet, Friedrich Schiller, who took the European literary world by storm in the late eighteenth century. As the German Enlightenment flourishes in Weimar, vibrant Caroline von Beulwitz finds herself in an unhappy marriage to provide for her mother and shy younger sister Charlotte von Lengefeld. When both sisters fall for an outspoken writer, their desire ignites...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
19) I Huckabees
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kindhearted (but confused) poet & activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life as he deals with the Huckabees corporation. He soon becomes involved with the detectives' other clients, all the while the detectives' French nemesis is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
20) Before midnight
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jesse and Celine first met in their twenties in Before Sunrise, reunited in their thirties in Before Sunset and, now they face the past, present and future, family, romance and love. Now on a writer's retreat in Greece, the couple looks for a night of passion, but instead their idyllic night turns into a test of their relationship and a discussion of what the future holds for them.
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