Will Patton
Pub. Date
2009
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"It was a summer like any other in this sleepy southern town, until a mysterious drifter named Eli Cottonmouth charms the townsfolk with a simple proposition for their upcoming anniversary celebration. But behind this picture-perfect community, two boys will now discover a secret world of mysteries, lies and tragedy that will change their lives forever"--Container.
83) Meek's Cutoff
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A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose...
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Pub. Date
2011
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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011
From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly
88) American Violet
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Falsely accused of distributing narcotics in a school zone, Dee Roberts (Beharie) is offered a deal she can't refuse: plead guilty and accept a 10-year suspended sentence. The alternative: risk serving 16-to-25 in jail.
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"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"--
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In this rough-and-tumble neo-noir, Gary Oldman stars as Sgt. Jack Grimaldi, a veteran cop who watches other people for a living. Once, in the faded past of his youth, it was an important job but now Jack sees that life on the other side of the binoculars has that little extra something-extra sex, extra money, extra excitement. Now, Jack gets in over his head when he falls for the ultimate femme fatale (Lena Olin). Also starring Annabella Sciorra and...
92) A Mighty Heart
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After her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman, Urbania), is kidnapped by terrorists, Mariane (Jolie) heads a desperate search for clues in a frantic race against time to locate her missing husband.
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
Includes the stories "Uncle Otto's Truck" and "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
Features "The Mist" now a TV series event on Spike
The #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Crew is "Stephen King at his best" (The Denver Post)—a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits...
Features "The Mist" now a TV series event on Spike
The #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Crew is "Stephen King at his best" (The Denver Post)—a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits...