Ruth White
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Meggie and David Blue are from another planet, they're a lot like Earth kids, with similar hopes and dreams, and can't wait to grow up. BUT they also have GROSSLY UNIQUE qualities, such as blue streaks in their hair that pop up randomly and language skills that sound like nothing on this planet. The story takes these alien kids, along with their mother and grandfather, by accident, to a far planet in which the society is not only oppressive...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.
Author
Series
Way down deep novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.
Author
Series
Way down deep novel volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.
10) Tadpole
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
11) Little Audrey
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
Author
Publisher
Dell Laurel Leaf
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
135, 14 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.
13) Charly
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mentally retarded man becomes intelligent after brain surgery, and romances a caseworker before slipping back into retardation. Based on Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon.
14) Midnight cowboy
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Buck and Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo are two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Thomas, a singer and guitarist in a rockabilly band, is on parole for a violent crime. Henry's wife, Georgette, and daughter, Margaret Rose, travel to Texas to be with him as he attempts to repair his relationships and put his life back together. Henry's overbearing foster mother, Kate Dawson, doesn't approve of Henry's musical aspirations and uses the terms of his parole to force him to comply with her wishes.
16) The nun's story
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 507 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
For a few dollars more: two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader.
The good, the bad and the ugly: Clint Eastwood returns as the...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (1,203 min.) : sound, color or black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thelma & Louise: Meek housewife Thelma joins her friend Louise, an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. Louise decides to flee to Mexico, and Thelma joins her. On the way, Thelma falls for a sexy young thief and a sympathetic Detective Slocumb tries to convince the two women to surrender before their fates are sealed.
Midnight...