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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront?e 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.
2) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Agatha and the truth of murder: In 1926 with her writing in crisis and her personal life in tatters, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.
Agatha and the curse of Ishtar: 1928: It has been two years since the sensation caused by her eleven-day disappearance and Agatha Christie arrives in Baghdad seeking culture and peace. What she finds is Max, an attractive young archaeologist with a bullet wound.
Agatha and the midnight...
Publisher
CBS Studios, Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Freelance writer Samantha and aspiring chef Jay throw both caution and money to the wind to leave NYC and convert a rundown country estate they inherited into a bed & breakfast, only to find that it's inhabited by a close-knit, eclectic group of spirits of deceased former residents. Adding to the supernatural surprises, Samantha discovers that she can see and hear ghosts everywhere, including those with whom she now shares a home. Old-school haunting...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Beth, a popular writer, and her husband, Don, share the kind of relationship that truly, seriously, for the love of God cannot be real: that is, they're actually in love. Even after decades of marriage, parenting, and successful careers, their physical spark has somehow not diminished; in fact, they seem to relish the opportunity to share a single ice cream cone and drive others including their son, Charlie mad. Should it come as a surprise then that...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Kay Effiel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revovles about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day begins to
7) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rove
8) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
9) Little women
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Born into poverty and a broken family, Maya Angelou's gift for poetry and storytelling propelled her to international renown as a leader in African-American culture and literature. Ultimately, her personal story and written words inspired and delighted millions from all races around the world. Witness a close-up portrait of a legendary figure in this first feature documentary about her life.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jessica Fletcher is a world famous mystery writer who travels the globe doing research for her next book. She is in for a wild time when she ends up investigating the murder of a anti-zoo activist; travels to Amsterdam and looks into the disappearance of a friend, becoming a suspect to a more serious crime; a director is killed in Cabot Cove while filming a documentary; Jessica's Hawaiian vacation is interrupted when a family fued escalates into murder;...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
To everyone's surprise, fifty-five years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee has published another novel. Go Set a Watchman was written before Lee's beloved masterpiece, as director Mary McDonagh Murphy explains in this update of her 2011 documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird . Murphy's new update of her film, Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman , sifts through the facts and speculation surrounding Lee...
13) Emily
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Imagines Emily Bronte's own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel 'Wuthering Heights.' Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Their names are synonymous with some of English literature's most timeless and celebrated novels. The real life story of the famous Bronte sisters however; is steeped in even greater controversy and heartbreak than the lives of their tragic character
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