Laura Linney
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 4
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Teenage detective Nancy Drew finds herself in danger when she tires to solve the mystery of an old inn, believed to be jinxed.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 5
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
While staying at a ranch in Arizona, Nancy Drew becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a mistreated child.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 3
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
While trying to help a friend out of a difficulty, teenage detective Nancy Drew has a perilous experience in and around a deserted bungalow.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 6
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Nancy becomes suspicious of a secret society and is drawn to investigate.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After super villain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
8) Annie Oakley
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever known. Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, invited the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America, international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable one....
10) Mr. Holmes
Language
English
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Description
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
12) Genius
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
13) Arthur Christmas
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On Christmas night at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.
14) Breach
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Eric O'Neill is promoted from a low-level surveillance job into the headquarters of the FBI, his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent is on the verge of reality. He is hand picked to work for the renowned operative Robert Hanssen within "information assurance," a new division created to protect all classified FBI intelligence. Eric quickly discovers the true reason for his hire: Hanssen is the sole subject of a long-term, top-secret investigation,...
15) The Truman show
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Truman Burbank discovers that his quaint hometown is a giant studio with hidden cameras everywhere and people around him are actors playing their roles in the most popular TV series in the world.
An insurance salesman, Truman Burbank, begins to doubt reality when he realizes that his life is a TV program. Nominated for six Golden Globes.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 7
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Nancy and her friends witness an explosion and burning of a beautiful mansion. Fearing its occupants may be trapped inside, they rush to the rescue only to find themselves confronted with a mystery that seems unsoluble. An anonymous diary offers an initial clue as Nancy saw someone run away from the fire.
19) The dinner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...