Reese Witherspoon
1) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoons grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women "whiskey in a teacup." We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside were strong and fiery. Reeses southern...
2) Busy Betty
Author
Series
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As she tries to give her big, smelly dog Frank a bath, which becomes more impossible by the minute, Betty learns that she can accomplish anything with perseverance, teamwork, and one great idea"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Busy Betty has always been busy. Every day she wakes up with a million questions and a billion ideas! And today she has an amazing idea: she s throwing her mom a birthday party. Shhh . . . It s a surprise! Then Betty and her best friend, Mae, have the best idea of all: What if they threw Mom a circus surprise party?! It will be the greatest day in the history of the universe! Everything is perfect until Betty realizes oh, no! Mom s birthday isn't...
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, "Scout", returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming becomes bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.
Language
English
Description
On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
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...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
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...
8) Sing
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A koala hopes to restore his theater to its former glory by producing a singing competition.
9) Home again
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Recently separated from her husband, Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guest house temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing...
10) The good lie
Language
English
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
13) Sing 2
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Buster Moon and his friends must persuade a reclusive rock star to join their band for the opening of a new show.
14) Four Christmases
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Three mothers whose seemingly perfect lives unravel to the point of murder. As loyalties are tested, trouble returns with the potential for emotional and bodily injury. Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie look to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives as an outsider comes searching for answers.
16) This means war
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
FDR and Tuck are covert CIA operatives and best buddies, until they both fall for charming and sexy Lauren. Their friendship is put to the ultimate test as they wage an epic battle for her affection, using their surveillance skills and an array of high-tech gadgetry. May the best spy win!
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
When a meteorite from outer space hits a young California woman named Susan Murphy and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. Under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley crew of monsters is called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018
Language
English
Description
Following the discovery of a new form of space travel as well as Meg's father's disappearance, she, her brother, and her friend must join three magical beings (Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which) to travel across the universe to rescue him from a terrible evil.
19) Devil's Knot
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After three boys in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas, are murdered, the investigation focuses on three young men accused of satanic rituals.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Following the discovery of a new form of space travel as well as Meg's father's disappearance, she, her brother, and her friend must join three magical beings (Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which) to travel across the universe to rescue him from a terrible evil.