John Irving
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Dr. Larch, who also provides medically safe, if illegal, abortions, runs the orphanage. Homer is Dr. Larch's favorite, and over the years, Dr. Larch trains Homer as his successor. Homer thus becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. Homer, however, yearns for a life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy come for an abortion, Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's...
5) Father Goose
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, his mother Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sabrina: David and Linus are brothers running the family corporation. When the chauffeur's daughter comes back from Paris she finds she has the attention of David, whom she has always liked, but starts to fall in love with Linus. Includes bonus features.
The English patient: Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a complicated WWII saga told in flashback sequences. A mysterious stranger is cared for by British allies unaware of his dangerous past....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Maximum overdrive (1986, 98 min.) : For three horryfying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The comet's magnetic fields cause all the machines to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now it's up to a small group of people trapped at a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines.
Raw deal (1986, 106 min.) : A suspended FBI agent becomes trapped in a deadly game against...