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21) 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.
22) 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.
23) A dog year
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jon Katz is a writer at a mid-life crossroads who decides to adopt and train a high-strung border collie named Devon, only to discover it's he himself who has the real lessons to learn. Based on a true story.
24) 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...
25) The words
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
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.
27) 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.
28) J.T. LeRoy
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Savannah Knoop's memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy, this captivating true story goes beyond the headlines to tell the story of the most compelling literary hoax of recent times. Laura Albert writes as her avatar, 'a disenfranchised young queer man' named JT LeRoy. When her debut novel becomes a best-seller and JT becomes the darling of the literary world, she comes up with a unique solution to preserve her anonymity but give life...
29) 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.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beth, a popular writer, and her husband Don, a well-liked teacher, share the kind of relationship that truly, seriously, for the love of God cannot be real: that is, they're actually in love. Even after decades of marriage, parenting, and successful careers, their physical spark has somehow not diminished; in fact, they seem to relish the opportunity to share a single ice cream cone and drive others including their son, Charlie mad. Should it come...
31) Emily
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Imagines Emily Bronte's own story that inspired 'Wuthering Heights.' As she struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into the seminal novel." --
32) Infinity pool
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James and his wife Em have escaped the city for an all-inclusive vacation at a tropical resort. Despite having come to the island of Li Tolqa to cure his writer's block, James finds himself more uninspired than ever until he meets fellow tourists, Gabi and Alban. James is immediately attracted to their glamorous lifestyle and lust for adventure. They invite James and Em on a day trip to a local beach, usually off-limits to tourists, but an accident...
33) Smoke
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
34) The lost city
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.
35) Before sunset
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two strangers met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get the chance to fall in love all over again?
36) My Salinger year
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office ... and her nights in a Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Watch the classic story by James Thurber, about a daydreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance, and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.
38) Miss Potter
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
39) Let it rain
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Feminist writer Agathe returns to France to help her sister, Florence, sort out their deceased mother's affairs. While there, Agathe decides to test the political waters and run in a local election. She also agrees to be interviewed for a documentary about successful women by two blundering reporters. As romantic entanglements, class resentments, and the uncooperative weather intrude, Agathe's life hysterically unravels, and the bumbling filmmakers...
40) House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Horror novelist Roger Cobb is a man on the edge, reeling from his recent divorce, haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his young son, and struggling with his new book about his traumatic experiences in Vietnam. But when he moves into the strange house left to him by his late aunt, Roger's precarious sanity comes under siege by nightmares of his dead war buddy, visits from a nosy neighbor, and an onslaught of hideous creatures from another dimension....
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