Lee Daniels
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Pub. Date
2022
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One of Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels Ever
Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst.
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to...
Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst.
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to...
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When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...
3) The butler
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014.
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1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
4) Precious
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Publisher
Studio S
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
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1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
7) The paperboy
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Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
8) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
10) Dragon blade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chinese warriors and legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius and Huo An defend their country when corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with an army to claim the Silk Road.
11) If I Loved You
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When Carly Fullerton's doctor tells her she must take some time away from her business to rest and regain her health, the only place she can afford to go to is a remote cabin in Idaho that she owns with her two half-sisters. The cabin is supposedly haunted, but she has no belief in ghosts. She's paid no attention to the cabin before this, and doesn't know her sister, Julia, has rented it out.
Alex Townson is a writer whose life has become more complicated...
12) Cascade
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It was just supposed to be one time. So why can't she stop thinking about him?
Opal Whittaker had an itch, and she thought Archer Crawford was just the man to scratch it. No strings. No expectations. He was going to help her take her mind off things for a little while.
Only problem is, she can't get him out of her head.
Archer is used to making questionable decisions. In a family of overachievers, he's an average guy and nobody expects too much...
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Julia Perrin runs a bed and breakfast that tends to have a strange clientele-people hoping to find true love. She's the eldest of three sisters who have inherited the cabin along with it’s the ghosts-ghosts who are rumored to be "matchmakers." Of course, Julia knows the legend is nonsense, and believes love is highly overrated. She's never been in love and never wants to be, but she needs money so if people want to spend a night or two at the cabin...
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A "runaway bride" seeking solitude. A disabled vet trying to deal with his shattered dreams. And an isolated Idaho cabin ... with ghosts.
Mallory Conway's troubled childhood taught her that the best reason to marry is for money and security, but that doesn't mean deciding to marry has been easy. Facing yet another troubled relationship, she abruptly escapes New York City for the family's Idaho cabin where she plans to continue her "advice to the...
15) Tributary
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He can buy anything he wants...except her trust.
Diana Crawford has been burned by men before. She pours everything she has into her business and vows never to open her heart again.
Asa Wexler, billionaire venture capitalist, rolls into Oak Creek on business. He takes a shovel full of snow to the face from a beautiful botanist and can't look away, even when she refuses his financial help.
Can Diana overcome her past and learn to love again? Will...
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Meet the Crawfords: Brilliant in business, lousy at love.
Fletcher Crawford is a playboy producer. He flies around the world chasing fast cars and fast women.
He's way too old to still feel hurt by his high school heartbreak, right?
One day he scorns the wrong woman and finds himself grounded in his hometown, where he finds Thistle McMurray around every turn.
She was his first everything... including his first heartbreak.
Thistle McMurray always...
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