Frances Sternhagen
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four complete and unabridged selections from the electrifying bestseller read by a stellar group of narrators.
“The Raft” is the unforgettable tale of an idyllic autumn swim suddenly transformed into an ordeal of unbridled horror. Read by Stephen King.
“Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut” is a story in which a middle-aged woman in a Mercedes roadster finds a terrifying pathway to paradise. Read by Dana Ivey.
“The Monkey”—is it merely a child’s...
3) Misery
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who is on his way home from his Colorado retreat after completing his latest book. He doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who happens to be Paul's 'number one fan.' Annie takes Paul back to her house in the mountains, and he finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Unfortunately for Paul,...
4) The mist
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's shoppers...
Publisher
Laurel-King
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
When aging janitor Harlan Williams is accidentally exposed to exotic chemicals in a lab explosion, he undergoes an extraordinary change, which the government wants to study at any cost. Soon, Harlan, his wife Gina, and the lab's security chief are on a cross-country race to evade a murderously effective federal agent.
6) The mitten
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.
7) Misery
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive." --
8) Outland
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A future cop probes some mysterious deaths among the workers in a mining colony on one of Jupiter's innermost moons.
9) The mitten
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.
10) The hat
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.
11) Tops and bottoms
Author
Series
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
12) Communion
Author
Language
English
Description
Christopher Walken stars as Whitley Strieber, a man fraught with dreams and visions linked to a possible alien abduction from his past.
13) Gingerbread baby
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A boy and his mother chase a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven.
14) Curtain call
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Stevenson Lowe has just moved in to a fabulous brownstone with his girlfriend, Julia, who wants to get married. But all thoughts of proposing are quickly scared out of him by a couple of grouchy ghosts who have the marriage from hell. They are Max and Lily Gale, the original residents of his newly purchased brownstone who have no intention of leaving to make room for this new couple. When Julia decides she's waited long enough for a proposal, she...
15) Enemies
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Maxim Gorky's powerful drama about the social ferment that culminated in the 1917 Russian Revolution is set on an estate in provincial Russia in 1905. In a sunlit-dappled garden, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest amongst the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. Titles include: Fight club ; The usual suspects ; Planet of the Apes ; The mist ; Clue : Atomic blonde.
Fight club: A man sets up a fight club in which young men are paired off in bloody no-holds-barred bouts until one drops.
The usual suspects: A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special agent David Kujan is...
18) Roxaboxen
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
19) Wolf!
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
20) Starting Over
Author
Language
English
Description
Burt Reynolds plays Phil Potter, a low-key, contented magazine writer who tries to put his life back together after his wife (Candice Bergen) opts for independence as a singer-songwriter. Jill Clayburgh, a wacky nursery school teacher, tries to help him surmount the emotional hurdles, but it's rough going in this delightful contemporary tale; he's still hung up on his ex-wife. Starting Over is sprinkled with comedy, from Bergen's cacophonous singing...