David Morse
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The nine stories in The Book of Disbelieving open portals to fabulist worlds and magical objects: a village built on the back of a whale, a holy day requiring literal leaps of faith, a tower housing an entire civilization, a diary blurring the line between imagination and memory." --Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend...
Publisher
Ranchwater Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Virgil First Raise wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes, has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her, beginning an odyssey of inebriated intrigues with a mysterious Airplane Man, a beautiful barmaid, and two dangerous men in suits. His quixotic, modern-day vision quest moves Virgil ever closer to oblivion--until...
4) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue, Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go. Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild, when a boy is just big enough to...
6) Collaborator
Author
Language
English
Description
Childhood neighbors Robert, a liberal playwright, and Gus, a right-wing ex-con, experience an unusual reunion when Gus holds Robert hostage at gunpoint in this acclaimed film.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
Author
Series
Cross of Fire volume 2
Language
English
Description
Close to death, Madge is dumped at her home after being abducted and brutally raped by D.C. Stephenson. Convinced his power and social standing will protect him, Steve must stand trial for her death.
Author
Series
Cross of Fire volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Indiana, the Ku Klux Klan gains sociopolitical influence behind the charismatic David 'Steve' Stephenson, who preaches patriotism and morality over prejudice.