Kari Skogland
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As riots consume the streets of Boston, a dangerous game plays out between a British governor and ringleader Sam Adams, which escalates to extreme measures, street brawls, black market dealings, espionage, and murder. A sizzling, romantic affair percolates against a backdrop of rising civil unrest, the infamous Boston Tea Party, and Paul Revere's legendary ride. From the Battle of Lexington, a clash between the dedicated colonists and the superior...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Marvel Studios' 'The Falcon and The Winter Soldier' stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson aka The Falcon, and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, aka The Winter Soldier. The pair, who came together in the final moments of 'Avengers: Endgame,' team up on a global adventure that tests their abilities and patience.
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
7) Hockey mom
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Paula is a single mom who works a blue collar job. Once in a while she plays pick-up games of hockey with her male co-workers. After her co-workers give her grief, she decides to challenge the guys to a hockey match - men vs. wormen. Paula rallies her friends in an effort to come up with a women's team worthy of defeating the men. Paula has a new love in her life and now that she is the coach and star player of the women's team, she faces a tough...
8) Banshee
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Car thief Banshee may be sexy and street-savvy, but when she unwittingly snatches a vintage sports car from a DJ who moonlights as a serial killer, she's in for a terrifying game of cat and mouse.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 19th century New Orleans during a period of religious and political unrest, the film tells the heroic life story of Henriette Delille, a woman of color who rejects the hypocrisy of class, race and tradition. Henriete must choose between the powerful love of one man and a divine calling which leads to her becoming the first African-American saint.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Martin McGartland. Belfast hoodlum Martin is recruited by a British agent to infiltrate the IRA during the height of the Northern Irish conflict and quickly becomes embroiled in a dangerous game that could cost him his life if his secret is found out. As other informants are brutally murdered, Martin starts to look for a way out, but his handler urges him to stay undercover.
11) Men With Guns
Author
Language
English
Description
Three losers - Eddie, Lucas and Mamet - are sent to collect a debt at a remote farm. When the thugs there are too hard for them, the trio come back humiliated. They return for revenge, but it gets out of hand, ending in a bloodbath. The friends are left with a big amount of cocaine belonging to a local mob boss, Horace Burke, who sends his son to find them. By this time, the cops are after them, too.
12) Zebra Lounge
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A couple learns the dangers of walking on the wild side. The Barnets have been married long enough for the excitement to have gone out of their relationship and want a way to put some spice back in their lives. They place a personal ad looking for another couple interested in swapping mates. They meet Jack and Louise, a pair of seasoned erotic adventurers. While the Barnets find the swinging scene exciting at first, they soon decide it may be doing...
13) Courage to Love
Author
Language
English
Description
This drama set in antebellum New Orleans stars Vanessa Williams as Henriette Delille, the first African-American canonized by the Vatican. A mixed-race woman who repudiates the hypocrisy of race, class and convention, Henriette chooses to accept a divine calling to help the downtrodden by founding a combination medical treatment center and school for the French community's black population. Diahann Carroll and Stacy Keach costar.
Pub. Date
[2012]-.
Language
English
Description
"Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Nucky acts with historical characters in both his personal and political life, including mobsters, politicians, government agents, and the common folk who look up to him. The federal government also...
Pub. Date
[2017- <2018>]
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
Series
Handmaid's Tale volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.