Carrie Preston
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh drama was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Carrie J. Preston locates noh's influence on Pound's imagism, Yeats's Irish National Theater,...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the retirement home where his son abandoned him, Abner Meecham sets out to reclaim his beloved Tennessee farmstead, only to find it's been leased to an old enemy, the volatile Lonzo Choat. After Abner intervenes to protect Choat's daughter from her drunken father's abuse, events spiral toward a startling, violent climax.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Series
Elsbeth (TV series) volume season 1
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. After leaving her successful legal career in Chicago to tackle a new investigative role in New York City, Elsbeth finds herself jockeying with the toast of the NYPD, Captain C.W. Wagner.
Series
Claws (TV series) volume 1
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Set in a South Florida nail salon, this is a midnight-dark, wickedly funny meditation on female badness which follows the rise of five diverse and treacherous Florida manicurists at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County Salon, where there is a lot more going on than silk wraps and pedicures. At the center is salon owner Desna, her mentally ill twin brother, Dean, and her staff of four friends.
8) Ready? OK!
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Single mother Andrea struggles to understand her young son Josh, who is obsessed with dresses and dolls. While Andrea prefers Josh to join the wrestling team at school, Josh's true heart's desire is to be a cheerleader.
Series
True blood (TV series) volume season 3
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
10) Space oddity
Publisher
Vortex Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A man seeks the help from an insurance company to plan a one-way trip to Mars.
Series
Numb3rs (TV series) volume 1
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most baffling criminal cases from two very distinctive perspectives....
13) Glimpse
Author
Language
English
Description
A very unique and stressful job interview where someone is watching the whole thing. And someone else is watching them watch.
14) A Bag of Hammers
Author
Language
English
Description
In this offbeat comedy, two slacker buddies befriend a street-smart kid who wants to join their larcenous valet parking business. When they discover the kid is neglected, they have to decide if they're ready to become responsible adults in order to protect him.
15) Doubt
Author
Language
English
Description
Sister Aloysius, the rigid and feared principal of the Saint Nicholas Church School, has an intense dislike for the progressive and popular parish priest Father Flynn. She believes she's uncovered the ultimate sin when she hears he has taken a special interest in a troubled boy. But without proof, the only thing certain is doubt. Based on the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play.
16) Space Oddity
Author
Language
English
Description
A man seeks the help from an insurance company to plan a one-way trip to Mars.