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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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
71 pages ; 22 cm
Description
If the word stanza means "room," then this book is an orchard. Former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Rhiannon McGavin crafts poems with scraps of the everyday, from dream diaries to postcards. She integrates the facts of daily life into lyric verse, switching out traditional forms easily as trying on new sweaters. Led by emotions "real as the mosaic air between screen and projector," McGavin explores what it means to become your own calendar.--Publisher's...
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.
5) Her alibi
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philip Blackwood, a mystery novelist, seeks inspiration for his writing by visiting a courtroom where he becomes involved with a beautiful Romanian arraigned for murder.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jaime is a young writer who just published his first novel called "Don't Fall in Love with Her", a book based on his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Laura, for whom he still has feelings. His plans to get her back will be ruined when he finds out that his childhood best friend, Vega, is his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. Includes forced English subtitles
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.
13) Third person
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three stories of love, passion, trust and betrayal. The tales play out in New York, Paris and Rome through three couples who appear to have nothing related, but share deep commonalities.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story is about a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present. Forced to face difficult memories and make bold decisions, she ultimately overcomes her demons, allowing her to find love and rediscover her creative voice.
16) 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.
17) Housewife, 49
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. She was 49 and fearful that she wouldn't be able to cope with her son's enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. Recounts her experience of wartime privations, but also her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella's volunteer work for the war effort fills...
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes place during one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife, Marion. It is a provacative story about one couple's emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty.
19) 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.
20) 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.
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