George Hearn
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another. • "Storytelling at its best.” —Entertainment Weekly
The aging McPheron brothers...
The aging McPheron brothers...
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Mischievous mutt Charlie Barkin is asked to retrieve Gabriel's horn when it is stolen from heaven. Seeing his chance to have some fun, Charlie recruits his sidekick Itchy and happily steps up to the challenge. Immediately, the two get sidetracked into trouble . . . until a sweet young runaway and a beautiful Irish setter set them straight.
Series
Language
English
Description
For 70,000 Marines this was more than a turning point of World War II, it was the defining moment of their lives. Explores the complicated nature of heroism, courage and patriotism in the harrowing true story of four Marines who fought the bloody battles at Iwo Jima during World War II and how a single photo emerged as one of the most evocative icons of the 20th Century.
Series
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah, Plain and Tall:" A mail-order bride from Maine travels to Kansas in 1910 to join a widower, John Witting, and his two children. "Skylark:" The Witting family is tested first by drought and then by separation, as Sarah and the children are forced to leave their Kansas farm to join Sarah's aunts in Maine while Jacob remains behind to try to save their livelihood. "Sarah Plain and Tall: Winter's End:" Having abandoned his family decades ago,...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah and Jacob Witting are a hardy couple raising a family on a Kansas farm in 1918. Unexpectedly, they're visited by Jacob's father John, who deserted his son more than thirty years earlier and has returned to make amends, a task complicated by a fateful accident and the onslaught of a blizzard"--TV guide, November 21, 1999.
Author
Language
English
Description
After his first marriage breaks up, New York psychiatrist Larry Livingston (Jeff Bridges) is about to try something even scarier: marriage #2. Alan J. Pakula wrote as well as directed this engaging slice of modern romance, using his own remarriage as an inspiration. Larry's second marriage carries lots of baggage from the past. He's still vulnerable to his ex (Farrah Fawcett), his new wife (Alice Krige) is temporarily overseas and all hell breaks...
