Gwyneth Paltrow
1) Contagion
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After a woman returns to the U.S. from a business trip to Hong Kong, bringing a deadly virus with her, virologists from the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization race to find a cure before it wipes out humanity.
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An unconventional romantic comedy that follows the topsy-turvy lives and loves of three obsessive characters: an overachieving environmental consultant, a stubborn small-business owner and a wisecracking ER doctor. They meet in a support group, and set into motion a life-changing journey filled with laughter and surprises.
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour steered by her husband/manager, that includes a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between the concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
7) Shallow Hal
Publication Date
2010, c2001
Language
English
Description
Jack Black is Shallow Hal, a superficial skirt chase who, after a mind-altering experience with a self-help guru, doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound not-so-hottie. Meanwhile, Hal's playboy pal Mauricio is determined to break the spell before someone gets ... squashed!
9) Iron man
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit made of armor. When he returns home, he decides to use his money, talents, and suit to save the world.
10) Two lovers
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the same darkness that nearly killed him.
11) Iron Man 2
Publication Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored super hero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet.
12) Mortdecai
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost Nazi gold. Meanwhile he is being chased by several angry groups of people.
14) Emma
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Toniebox comes to life when paired with our whimsical collection of Tonies: hand-painted characters with hours of stories to tell, worlds to explore, and songs to sing along with. Each collectible character magnetically attaches to the Toniebox, making it simple for little listeners to change stories whenever they want."--Tonie website. This Tonie teaches kids about: Colors, sounds, senses, animals, Spanish.
Corduroy the teddy bear is waiting...
17) Bounce
Publication Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Buddy Amaral is a smooth-talking, skirt-chasing ad exec who is enjoying his high-powered career. Then, a sudden twist of fate changes everything and leads him into the life of Abby Janello, with whom he eventually falls head-over-heels in love.
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Outbreak (R) (1995) (128 min.): The race to save life on Earth is on when an unstoppable killer virus hits our shores.
Contagion (PG-13) (2011) (106 min.): In this thriller, a deadly disease poses a threat, and an international team of doctors is contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Quarantine (R) (2008) (89 min.): An apartment complex is quarantined...
19) Sylvia
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Sylvia Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married...
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Fast & furious 6: Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete.
Seven: A serial killer uses the seven deadly sins as the template for his killing spree.
Eight legged freaks: Residents of a mining town...