Reese Witherspoon
1) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
303 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Reese's southern heritage informs her whole life, and she loves sharing the joys of southern living with practically everyone she meets. She takes the South wherever she goes with bluegrass, big holiday parties, and plenty of Dorothea's fried chicken. It's reflected in how she entertains, decorates her home, and makes holidays special for her kids-not to mention how she talks, dances, and does her hair (in these pages, you will learn Reese's fail-proof,...
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Description
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
Author
Description
Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
4) Sing
Formats
Description
A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater and bring it back to its former glory.
5) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two teenage boys help a fugitive evade bounty hunters and reunite with his true love.
6) Wild
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
7) Sing 2
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Buster Moon and his friends must persuade a reclusive rock star to join their band for the opening of a new show.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the discovery of a new form of space travel as well as Meg's father's disappearance, she, her brother, and her friend must join three magical beings (Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which) to travel across the universe to rescue him from a terrible evil.
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Shrek challenges his fairytale friends to come up with scary stories for a contest. However, the gang learns that they'll have to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's haunted castle before the winner is named."--Scared Shrekless.
"Shrek's thrilling tales is a Halloween DVD compilation of the scariest, ugliest, and funniest characters from DreamWorks Animation's Shrek and Monsters vs. aliens franchises."--Shrek's thrilling tales.
11) Inherent vice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
13) The good lie
Publisher
Alcon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
14) Cruel intentions
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unscrupulous student gets more than he anticipated when he attempts to deflower the Headmaster's beautiful, virgin daughter.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan Murphy gets turned into a giant monster on her wedding day when a meteorite from outer space hits her. She is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley group of Monsters are called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
16) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
19) Gone girl
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (149 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
20) Pleasantville
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brother and sister are magically transported through their television set and into the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom called Pleasantville. Soon they affect this environment with their worldly sensibilities, and people and things slowly begin to acquire color.