Summary: A collection of twenty-six crime stories, written by top women authors during the past century, includes pieces by Dorothy L. Sayers, Sara Paretsky, Shirley Jackson, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, J.A. Jance, and other notables.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMSummary: David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARSummary: In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: Before sunrise: An American man, Jesse, and a Paris woman, Celine, meet on a train bound for Vienna and decide to spend the day together before Jesse departs the next morning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HENSummary: Two strangers meet by chance, spend a night together in Vienna, and part before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECSummary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A 21st-century romantic thriller centered around a relationship that gets taken too far, When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. As he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details to get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession when he quietly and strategically begins...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: After his daughter's disappearance, a man is hired to kill a young author who is writing a fantasy novel with a fictional world that seems to impact reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WRISummary: Two stranges met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Before 2004Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BEFSummary: It recounts the story of fledgling writer Samuel Liston and his experiences with Floyd Deveraux, the enigmatic middle-aged father of two who enlists Samuel to write his biography. But the circumstances that lead up to this arrangement in the first place are quite astonishing and efforts to write the biography are quickly stymied by ensuing chaos in this darkly comedic, genre-bending film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway's latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAGSummary: Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer decides coming to terms with his mom will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with his mom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOTSummary: James and his wife Em have escaped the city for an all-inclusive vacation at a tropical resort. Despite having come to the island of Li Tolqa to cure his writer₂s block, James finds himself more uninspired than ever until he meets fellow tourists, Gabi and Alban. James is immediately attracted to their glamorous lifestyle and lust for adventure. They invite James and Em on a day trip to a local...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY INFSummary: Chronicles the day-to-day happenings of Andy Richter, an aspiring short story writer working for a large corporation writing 'how-to' manuals. Richter is constantly thinking about possibilities and how every moment in life could just as easily go another way. Features 5 episodes never aired on television, bonus featurettes, and commentary. Includes all 19 episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANDSummary: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Walk 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ToSummary: Watch the classic story by James Thurber, about a daydreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance, and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SECCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Secret 2013Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SeSummary: The story of a famous author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to manage the women, along with her literary agent, who is impatient to find out about her next book.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LETCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LETCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LetSummary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISLong, Justin
Summary: A successful writer goes to great lengths to learn skills in which he has no interest to impress the adventurous girl behind the counter of his favorite café.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mpi Media Group 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CASSummary: In Stockholm, Sweden to collect his Nobel Prize in Literature, American writer Andrew Craig stumbles across a plot to kidnap a fellow Nobel laureate. On arrival at the hotel, he meets physicist Prof. Max Stratman. They have a pleasant conversation and agree to meet for drinks the next day. When they meet again however, the Professor acts as if he's never met Craig. With his propensity for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THESummary: "Imagines Emily Bronte's own story that inspired 'Wuthering Heights.' As she struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into the seminal novel." --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023