Frances Sternhagen
Author
Series
Signet book volume AE 7709
Description
"When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine's Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband's death twenty-nine years earlier. But if this is truly to be the day of Dolores Claiborne's reckoning,...
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Bear has lots of money and lots of land -- and he's lazy. Hare has nothing but a hungry family -- and he's smart. Hare is sure there's a way to share Bear's wealth, so he and Mrs. Hare cook up a plan. Then Hare hops on down the road to Bear's place and proposes that Bear donate land. Hare handles labor, and they split the crop in half. All Bear has to do is choose the half he wants -- tops or bottoms. Sleepy Bear takes tops but finds once the harvest...
3) The hat
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Series
Appears on list
Description
When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.
6) Wolf!
Author
Formats
Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
7) Dolphin tale
Pub. Date
[2011]
Formats
Description
Inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter's prognosis is dire.
8) The Mitten
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"When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax. As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki in the boarders...
10) The mist
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's...
11) Misery
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Description
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash and nursed by the self-described "number one fan" of his novels, he comes to realize as he recuperates from his injuries that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse, his unhinged benefactor bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner in her secluded Maine cabin, forever
12) Dolphin tale
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[p2012], c2011
Description
Inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter's prognosis is dire.
Author
Pub. Date
c[2006]
Description
In the "Hat,", when Lisa hangs her woolen cothes in the sun to air them ouf ro winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head. In the "Umbrella." Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella. In "Gingerbread baby," a young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that excapes from their oven and...
14) Outland
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997, 1981
Description
A future cop probes some mysterious deaths among the workers in a mining colony on on of Jupiter's innermost moons.
15) Golden years
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
This made-for-TV mini-series from the notorious horror writer centers upon a hapless old janitor who begins undergoing incredible physical changes after he is accidentally covered with experimental chemicals following a laboratory mishap. Now the government will stop at nothing to get him back.
16) Gingerbread baby
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A boy and his mother chase a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The Langoliers: On a flight from LA to Boston 10 passengers awake from a nap to find that all the other passengers have vanished ... and the ground below them is only ... ground. Once they land the situation doesn't improve. No one is there ... the air is still ... the clocks have stopped ... and a dread, evil presence bent on their destruction is headed straight for them.
The stand: The U.S. government denies that there's a problem when the horrifying...
19) Curtain call
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1997
Description
Stevenson Lowe has just moved in to a fabulous brownstone with his girlfriend, Julia, who wants to get married. But all thoughts of proposing are quickly scared out of him by a couple of grouchy ghosts who have the marriage from hell. They are Max and Lily Gale, the original residents of his newly purchased brownstone who have no intention of leaving to make room for this new couple. When Julia decides she's waited long enough for a proposal, she...
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Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
©2002.
Description
"This film is based on transcripts of over 200 interviews with the people of Laramie, Wyoming."--Title screens. In October 1998, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard had been found savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. National media attention made his case a cause célèbre, and a month later, off Broadway writer-director Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre (his collaborating actors) arrived. They succeeded in interviewing a wide range of relevant...