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
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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...
5) The mitten
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.
6) 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." --
7) 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) 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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) 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...
13) 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...
16) 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.
17) 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.
Author
Language
English
Description
After his first marriage breaks up, New York psychiatrist Larry Livingston (Jeff Bridges) is about to try something even scarier: marriage #2. Alan J. Pakula wrote as well as directed this engaging slice of modern romance, using his own remarriage as an inspiration. Larry's second marriage carries lots of baggage from the past. He's still vulnerable to his ex (Farrah Fawcett), his new wife (Alice Krige) is temporarily overseas and all hell breaks...
Author
Series
Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
Description
2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category
"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie
Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves
Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?
read by Keir Dullea
A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wife's Story
read
...Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Carrie: A high school wallflower with telekinetic powers terrorizes her classmates.
Misery: After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
The Shawshank Redemption: Two convicts, one white and one black, never give up the dream of freedom, and together they turn hope and friendship into an uplifting bond no prison can ever take away.
The Shining: Jack Torrance is a writer...