Robert Fox
Author
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of his parents, fourteen year old Mark Talbot's comfortable and sheltered world crashes around him. His uncle, following instructions in his father's will, sends Mark to New Zealand to live with a colony of Maori people that his father knew and loved as a young man. Among these brown skinned Polynesians, Mark begins to grow to manhood, not just in body but in mind and spirit. His inherited family teaches him love, truth, beauty,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Alfred King, wealthy, retired, and in his seventies is traveling in Kenya on a photo safari when he meets Koro, a small Masai boy at a roadside stop who wants to "practice his English." On a sudden impulse, King asks him if he would like to go to America. The boy is overjoyed and takes King to his village to receive permission from the tribal elders. They tell him that Koro has a unique gift: he hears strange music that often leads him to people needing...
Author
Language
English
Description
The only survivor in a plane crash, a young boy who was unconsciousness and not discovered by rescue crews, awakens in the branches of a large pine tree. He has no memory of how he got there or who he is. In his pocket is a small Bible inscribed "to Jared." In this mystical story, he then decides to name himself Jared the Seeker. He soon comes upon a log cabin and meets its strange occupant and his dog. The strange fellow tells Jared that he is Elijah...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Preventable errors by doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers are a major cause of death and disability in the US, comparable to cancer and heart disease. The rules explored in Avoiding Medical Errors help patients avoid becoming victims and address areas that might otherwise be overlooked"--Provided by publisher.
6) Iris
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
7) The hours
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
11) Wilde Salomé
Author
Language
English
Description
Al Pacino shares his most personal project ever; the double feature documentary Wilde Salome, followed by the stage adaptation of Salome as he explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde's scintillating tale of lust, greed and revenge.
12) The Hours
Author
Language
English
Description
Three women in different times, related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway".