Sharon Stone
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose. Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writers about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn't accept failure, in a world where...
2) Hero quest
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
10-year-old Savva works to help his village break free from the vicious hyenas.
3) All I wish
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An aspiring fashion designer struggles to find success and love. The story cuts into her life once a year, always on the same date, her birthday.
4) Catwoman
Language
English
Description
Sensitive and shy artist Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammouth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist...
6) Gloria
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A mobster's tough ex-mistress befriends a boy left orphaned by a murderous gunman. Now they're both running for their lives and right into each other's arms.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
These visually stunning documentaries are pilgrimages to legendary places in Southeast Asia and Tibet, including the spiritual wonders of Laos, Thailand, Burma, Bali, Cambodia, Java, and Central Tibet. Journey into the living traditions and lost civilizations of this vibrant part of the world and explore the universal ideals of wisdom, compassion, and inner peace at the very heart of these ancient Buddhist cultures.
10) Fading gigolo
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Murray talks his friend Fioravante into becoming a gigolo as a way of making some much needed cash after an out-of-the-blue request from his dermatologist. With Murray acting as Fioravante's 'manager,' the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
11) $5 a day
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being released from jail for a crime his dad committed, Ritchie Flynn Parker, the son of a thrifty conman, begrudgingly joins his father on the road, after years of separation. Ritchie Flynn is a reformed conman who doesn't want anything to do with his father. He also feels he is being conned into joining his father on the road, but soon learns the real reason for this, and the lessons he learns will change his life. Conman Nat Parker wants...
12) Antz
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
13) The specialist
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Hired by May Munro to bomb the mobsters who murdered her parents, ex-CIA explosives expert Ray Quick faces an ominous question: is May falling for him, or is she setting him up, too?
14) Cold Creek Manor
Language
English
Description
The Tilson's are a wealthy couple who have grown tired of the high stress of life in New York City and are looking to move. Upstate, they find a mansion in the village of Cold Creek which has fallen into disrepair after it was repossessed. Convinced the house has great possibilities, the Tilsons buy it, and with a little hard work they are soon living in their dream home. Before long the family begins to learn the disturbing truth about the history...
15) Sliver
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A lonely book editor moves into one of Manhattan's tooth-pick thin buildings where she has a fling with her handsome neighbor who owns the building. He has installed video cameras in every unit that reveal many secrets.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
War reporter and former British intelligence officer Leo Cauffield and his collegue Sally Tyler, a United States war correspondent, meet on assignment in Beirut. After Leo disappears, Sally starts to uncover his secret life. Her quest to discover the truth will take her to the Soviet Union and into the clutches of the KGB. Now, with the CIA after her and the British government close behind, her loyalty to Leo and her family will be put to the ultimate...
17) Basic instinct
Language
English
Description
Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective, investigates a murder identical to one described in the latest novel of Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating, and beautiful bisexual novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite.
18) Casino
Language
English
Description
Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls...
19) When a man falls
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a lonely housewife faces the reality of her dying marriage to Gary, she seeks comfort in unlawful and forbidden activities. While Gary takes to drinking away his troubles, he doesn't realize that things are falling apart around him-- until it's too late.
20) Basic instinct 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Now living in London, writer Catherine Tramell sets her lethal sights on Michael Glass, the control-freak psychiatrist assigned to evaluate her as a risk-addicted suspect in the "accidental" killing of a star soccer player. Turns out Catherine's just getting started (or is she?), and that's bad news for Glass's ex-wife, a tabloid journalist, and the Scotland Yard detective who's desperate to put Catherine in jail. Has Catherine finally met her match...