Diane Ladd
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
3) Joy
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
"Uproariously funny"--Entertainment Weekly
"Joy is a fun but untidy muddle,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1996
Language
English
Description
Myrlie Evers has fought for years to see the man who murdered her husband, African-American civil rights worker Medgar Evers, brought to justice. Yet, after two hung juries and 30 years, justice has not come. Finally, in the 1990s, a brave lawyer reopens the case to fight for the conviction of the murderer.
5) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
6) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
7) Gigi & Nate
Publisher
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Nate suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic just weeks before departing for college. As Nate tries to adjust to his new life challenges, his mother helps him bring home an unlikely service animal, Gigi, a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey. Nate and Gigi form an unbreakable bond, but when it's threatened by a group trying to outlaw capuchins, Nate's family rallies behind him to help him regain the hope he so desperately needs....
Author
Language
English
Description
This installment of Alexandra Ripley's Old South saga- begun in the bestselling Charleston- traces the lives of the prominent South Carolina Tradd family from the turn of the century to 1935. From an ugly duckling love child, Garden Tradd became the glorious belle her mother, Margaret, had longed to be. With breathtaking abandon and dazzling innocence, Garden dances through Paris, London, and New York as the twenties roar-...
9) Charleston
Author
Language
English
Description
As a child, Elizabeth Tradd witnessed the horror of war and as a young girl, she learned the worst that men can do. As a woman, she discovers the breathtaking excitement that comes to but a lucky few. Here is the story of a Charleston family and the courage, love, and passion that bind them to each other and their vibrant South Carolina city. From the final years of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the beginnings of the ragtime era, this is the...
Author
Language
English
Description
New Orleans holds the key to unlocking the past and unleashing the passions of 16-year-old Mary MacAlistair in this romantic adventure. When Mary receives a mysterious box from the mother she never knew, she finds a name and address carved beneath the lid- the only clues to her real identity. Mary' s search for her past leads to New Orleans and brings her far more than she expected- from the seamy underside of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of an ex-football star, Johnny Dunn, who moves far from the spotlight after a family tragedy to a small, desert town he owns called Jake's Corner. Jake's Corner, Arizona, is a rest stop for travelers making their way through the Arizona desert, but for the people who live there, it's a rest stop for life. Johnny and the eclectic ensemble that live and work in the town occupy trailers behind the Corner Store and Jake's Corner Bar. Through...
13) American Cowslip
Author
Language
English
Description
Ethan Inglebrink (Ronnie Gene Blevens) is an agoraphobic heroin addict who lives in a homogeneous California town where nothing ever happens. A misfit, clad in a powder blue tux, he has convinced his poker buddies, and surrogate moms, Roe (Diane Ladd), Sandy (Cloris Leachman), and Lou Anne (Lin Shaye), that he is diabetic and his needles are for insulin, not heroin. His next-door neighbor is his landlord and former high school football coach Trevor...
Author
Language
English
Description
When three life-long friends--Esther, Doris and Lucille--suddenly find themselves middle-aged widows, they discover the transition from mating to dating is a tricky proposition at best, and that starting over takes more effort the second time around. Although this trio of newly-eligible ladies is an added attraction on the over-50 singles circuit, they quickly find that the harvest years have produced a fallow field of suitable single men. But, among...
16) Rambling Rose
Author
Language
English
Description
A confused and over-sexed young woman is taken in by a respectable Southern family. She is warmly received but trouble begins when she cannot control her sexual desires.
Author
Language
English
Description
Autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers, one an artist who also fishes and sells crabs to the townsfolk, the other a wounded Asian stranger, are swept up in the tides of history. Against the town's surge of misdirected patriotism a trio of women reject law and propriety to save this mysterious young man.
Author
Language
English
Description
When a 15-year-old honors student Jodi Hayward (Shawnee Smith)--charged with being in a car with an underage driver--comes before a vindictive judge who abuses his power for personal satisfaction, she is sentenced to spend a night in adult jail in this story based on true events.While Jodi's parents report her missing and search frantically to find their daughter, she is locked up with hardened criminals for a nightmarish night that ends with her...