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1) Agatha
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The world-hopping documentary journeys between New York City's cultural hub and Ferrante's native Italy, exploring how an anonymous author's visceral tales of love and friendship gained such an enthusiastic following.
3) Supernova
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1051) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Join guest stars Jeffrey Nordling (24), Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond), Ann Cusack (The Informant!), Jeri Ryan (Boston Public, Star Trek: Voyager) and more as they become part of Jessica's acclaimed investigations that span the globe from hometown Cabot Cove to tropical Martinique. With two bonus episodes from Season Twelve (the final season) ..."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to pay the ransom of her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure. Thrown into a jungle full of gunfire, mud slides and poisonous snakes, Joan's only hope lies with Jack Colton, a rugged wanderer straight out of her novels. Together, they'll have to outwit the bandits and survive the jungle if they're to save her sister.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (1114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes all 21 episodes from the unforgettable first season plus the pilot movie The Murder of Sherlock Holmes. Join super sleuth Jessica Fletcher and investigate every entertaining episode of Murder, She Wrote.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1053 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This season takes novelist-turned-detective, Jessica Fletcher, from not-so-sleepy Cabot Cove to the dangerous bright lights of New York City and beyond. From uncovering false fortune seekers to tracking down two-faced killers, Jessica is always there to catch the culprit and pen the final solution to the case.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca.136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (274 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh, Detective Matilda Stone investigates crimes with the aid or, often, meddling of her three mystery-writing aunts, who raised her from childhood. Together, they look into a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. Matilda has decidedly less success with her personal affairs, continuing to pine for Dr. Daniel Lynch even as she begins...
11) Princess Cyd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for Katie, a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harold Crick - IRS auditor, milquetoast, and poster child for obsessive-compulsive disorder - wakes one morning to hear a woman's voice in his bathroom, narrating his life as he is living it, subsequently announcing his imminent death. This is a big problem, since Harold has a burning crush on Ana, his latest audit case. Searching for the source of the voice, he turns to literary theory-spewing professor Jules Hilburt, who eventually discovers that...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards.
15) Blithe spirit
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he bargained for when Madame Acarti inadvertently summons...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ernest Hemingway's extraordinary life and career has been exhaustively, but less thoroughly examined is his fascinating friendship with film icon Gary Cooper. The liberal, best-known writer of the 20th century and the tight-lipped, all-American "common man" were complete opposites and yet the best of friends for over 20 years.
17) Angel
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
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.
19) Paper man
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Richard Dunn, a no-hit wonder of a novelist, is sent to Long Island by his wife, who expects him to get cracking on his next novel. Dunn isn't totally alone, though. Along for the ride is a local teen who befriends Richard after he hires her to be a babysitter. His babysitter. Plus, there's Richard's imaginary best friend from childhood, Captain Excellent, a confidante always ready to prod him along toward adulthood, whether Dunn wants it or not.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The "wickedly offbeat" (Parade), contemporary mystery series follows the adventures of newly promoted Detective Sergeant Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Though Matilda's strict boss warns her that homicides are police-only matters, her aunts can't help but offer their expertise, as well as unsolicited dating advice. As Matilda contends with a novelist killed during...
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