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1) Crash
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
2) Red dragon
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
3) The bear
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An orphaned cub, and the wounded giant grizzly who befriends him, are threatened by gunfire as they begin a desperate quest for survival.
6) Emma
Language
English
Description
Emma brings to life Jane Austen's novel about a woman who makes it her goal to 'fix' the lives of all her friends while ignoring her own problems.
9) Grand Canyon
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involviing their families and friends for years to come."--Container.
10) The good son
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Unsuccessful in warning the family about his cousin Henry's deadly nature, a young boy has to battle Henry by himself in a contest pitting good against ultimate evil
12) Free Willy
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
14) Mercury rising
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent is assigned to protect a nine-year-old autistic boy, who becomes the target of assassins after he cracks a top secret government code.
17) Three Amigos!
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
19) Iris
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the lifelong romance between British novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease
20) Mrs. Wilson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
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