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122) Let's scare Julie
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A group of teen girls set out to scare their reclusive new neighbor, but the prank turns to terror when some of them don't come back.
123) Miles ahead
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
124) Backroads and lilies
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"All Alza Bennett wants is to get home to her estranged family for the Easter holiday. An auto mishap leaves the high-strung executive more than 700 miles short of her destination and standing on the doorstep of a grizzled, reclusive farmer named Lincoln, who's goal in life is to be left alone. After a deal is struck, the mismatched pair sets out on a three-day odyssey of misadventures along the highways and byways of America where they encounter...
125) Cuento de hadas
Author
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
"Christophe y Joy eran una pareja profundamente enamorada cuando convirtieron su suntuosa propiedad en California en una pequeña bodega de prestigio. En ese entorno de ensueño criaron a Camille, su única hija, que no tardará en regresar tras terminar los estudios para ayudar con el negocio familiar. Pero cuando la enfermedad se lleva a su madre y su padre cree recuperar la felicidad con una nueva compañera, Camille queda a la merced de su madrasta...
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Appears on list
Description
Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, befriends a local millionaire; but the friendship soon evolves into a deadly game and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival.
127) The last enemy
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
128) Kings
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Millie Dunbar is a foster parent who looks after her many children in Los Angeles in 1992. After the verdict from the Rodney King Incident is revealed, the city quickly begins to descend into all-out chaos between its denizens and the police. Now, Millie must protect her children from the ensuing anarchy and erupting violence all while navigating the precarious waters of police violence and finding justice for her family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This story of theft, struggle, and solitude is the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods for twenty-seven years, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins. In 1986, a twenty-year-old white man named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would remain alone until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing...
130) The answer man
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Arlen Faber is the reclusive author of 'Me and God,' a book that has redefined spirituality for an entire generation and has been translated into over 100 languages. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of his still wildly popular book, Arlen is still sought after as the man who has all the answers. His life collides with Elizabeth, a single mom raising her seven-year-old son, and Kris, a young man fresh out of rehab who is searching for meaning. Both...
131) Grey gardens
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the...
132) The answer man
Description
Arlen Faber is the reclusive author of 'Me and God,' a book that has redefined spirituality for an entire generation and has been translated into over 100 languages. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of his still wildly popular book, Arlen is still sought after as the man who has all the answers. His life collides with Elizabeth, a single mom raising her seven-year-old son, and Kris, a young man fresh out of rehab who is searching for meaning. Both...
133) Catching Salinger
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In 2007, French writer, Frederic Beigbeder, decided to travel to the United States in search of J.D. Salinger, who withdrew from the world in 1965 and is said to still be alive and reside somewhere in New Hampshire.