Jennifer Ehle
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Practical magic novels volume 2
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English
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"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and...
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A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world...
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world...
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Series
Time quintet volume 3
Language
English
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In this volume, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg, grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything", goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate...
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Infernal devices volume 1
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English
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When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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Music Box Films
Language
English
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Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (*House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea*) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and...
7) Little Men
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
13-year-old Jake befriends Tony (Michael Barbieri), raised by his mother Leonor (Paulina Garcia). A feud ignites between the parents, Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) and Leonor — the boys remain silent against their parents in protest.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ana is an inexperienced college student tasked with interviewing enigmatic billionaire Christian Grey. But what starts as business quickly becomes an unconventional romance. Swept up in Christian's glamorous lifestyle, Ana soon finds another side to him as she discovers his secrets and explores her own dark desires. What results is a thrilling, all-consuming romance as Christian and Ana test the limits they will go to for their relationship.
10) Before the rains
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village, and his past. Loyalties are tested and destinies decided as two worlds collide.
11) Sunshine
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN tells the unbelievable true story of a murderer (Sean Penn) confined to an insane asylum and his unlikely bond with a brilliant Oxford professor (Mel Gibson). Drawn together by the fine line between madness and genius, these remarkable men form an unbreakable friendship in pursuit of changing the course of history.
13) Run This Town
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young journalist, desperate to prove himself, accidentally discovers an outrageous scandal involving a flashy, unpredictable politician with no filter.
14) The Wolf Hour
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Set in the Bronx during the Summer of Sam, June (Naomi Watts) becomes unraveled when an unseen tormentor begins harassing her in this taut Hitchcockian Thriller.
15) Little men
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
16) Black or white
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
Publisher
UK Film Council
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age of...
18) Saint Maud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient's soul, but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.
19) She said
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
20) Sunshine
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A compelling epic about generations of a Hungarian Jewish family caught up in the upheavals and false hopes of a war-swept 20th century.