Joel Murray
Author
Language
English
Description
Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank feels he has nothing left to live for. However, instead of taking his own life, he embarks on a killing spree with cohort Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement, and together they launch a nation-wide assault on the country's dumbest, most irritating celebrities.
4) Monuments
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A young widower sidesteps grief, loss, and familial dysfunction when he steals his wife's ashes and sets off on an impulsive odyssey through America's heartland to find something he'd lost long before her death.
5) Mr. Pig
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eubanks (Danny Glover), an old-school pig farmer from Georgia on the brink of losing his family farm, sets off on a road trip with his estranged daughter, Eunice (Maya Rudolph) and Howard, his beloved and very large pig. As they make their way across the border to Mexico to find 'Howie' a new home, Eubanks' drinking and deteriorating health begin to take a toll, derailing their plans. Driven by strong convictions and stubbornness in his old ways,...
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
They're out of school, out on Nantucket ... and out of their minds! Anything can happen, and everything will happen during ONE CRAZY SUMMER! John Cusack and Demi Moore star as Hoops McCann, the scion of a long line of basketball stars who longs buck family tradition to be a cartoonist, and Cassandra Eldrich, the young woman who teaches him to follow his dreams even as she takes a hiatus from her own to help her grandparents save their house. Everything...
8) The artist
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within an inch of his heart. His recovery was nothing short of remarkable, but Reagan had been grievously injured, forcing him to encounter a challenge that few men ever face. Could he overcome his traumatic experience while carrying out the duties of the most powerful man in the world?
Author
Language
English
Description
How to be together while apart
Kohen, who lives in the Bahamas, has just celebrated his 5th birthday party when the COVID-19 pandemic begins. The narrative spirals into the peak of the pandemic and all the changes that accompany it. Kohen depends on the support of his family - especially the creativity of his grandmother - to cope with the changes but fears the worst. Will he and Maximus ever play together again? How can he and his dad be together...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill, recently divorced and fired, Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old high school student Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on our country's dumbest, most irritating reality show and phony celebrities.
12) One crazy summer
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Letterbox.
Language
English
Description
Hoops McCann has the name but not the talent to carry on the family basketball tradition. He'd rather use his drawing skills to earn an art school scholarship by writing and illustrating a love story. This summer, in Nantucket, he's going to get the necessary romantic experience by helping a singer try to save her family's property from developers.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"One man's journey to find meaning in Bill Murray's many unexpected adventures with everyday people, rare and never-before seen footage of the comedic icon participating in stories previously presumed to be urban legend. Whether it be singing karaoke late at night with strangers or crashing a kickball game in the middle of the afternoon, Bill Murray lives in the moment and by doing so, creates magic with everyday people." -- Container.
16) The artist
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
17) Hatchet
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a group of New Orleans tourists take a cheesy haunted swamp tour, they slam face-first into the local legend of deformed madman Victor Crowley. What follows is a psycho spree of seat-jumping scares and mayhem.
18) Open Tables
Author
Language
English
Description
Within the walls of the trendiest Chicago restaurants, behind the closed doors of private dinner parties, and on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Open Tables explores true love, love lost and the importance of a good main course.
19) Open Tables
Author
Language
English
Description
Set within the walls of the trendiest Chicago restaurants and behind the closed doors of exclusive dinner parties, Open Tables explores colliding stories of love lost, love found and all the details between.
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