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Pub. Date
1998
Summary
Early in his career, Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) wrote a series of plays revolving around characters obsessed with the sea. This period culminated in the 1922 production of Anna Christie, a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of social realism that was among the first of the author's plays to explore characters searching for their own identities. Centering on the reunion of a barge captain and his daughter after a twenty-year separation, the play derives...
2) Emma
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town, In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Formats
Summary
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along.
4) Mojave moon
Pub. Date
c2005, 1996
Summary
A nice guy stumbles into a weekend of wacky intrigue when he impulsively gives a girl a ride from Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Summary
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
6) Unsane
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear, but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
Sam's first day as a pizza delivery driver is not going according to plan. At the end of a long day and not enough tips, her last delivery turns out to be for a group of Satanists looking for someone to sacrifice. Now in a fight for her life, Sam must fend off witches, evil spells and demonic creatures, all while trying to keep her body, and soul, intact.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
When a young woman falls in love and develops a long-distance relationship with a soldier in active duty, her protective mother tries her best to steer her daughter away from heartache. Little do they know they are about to learn important lessons of the heart and that taking chances can make this Christmas one they will cherish forever.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Summary
Charlotte is struggling to balance her songwriting career and planning her upcoming wedding. After trying on countless wedding dresses, she knows the only one that's right for her is her mother's dress, which is at her grandmother's house in Harmony, Tennessee. With her two best friends in tow, Charlotte journeys from Los Angeles back to her hometown to ask her grandmother for the dress.
14) Song of the lark
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Set in 1890s Colorado, young Thea escapes the narrow confines of her world to become a world-famous opera singer, defining herself in a man's world.
15) The miniaturist
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
A woman moves to live with her new husband in seventeenth century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.
17) Little women
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
18) Contracted
Pub. Date
2014
Summary
Uncertain of the disease or the man who gave it to her, Samantha attempts to hide it from her loved ones. But she soon realizes that she is not just the victim of an STD, but rather the host of something much more catastrophic, and that she and those around her are in mortal danger.
19) Mothering Sunday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
20) Knock knock
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
A family man's kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse when he opens the door to two stranded young women.
