Nora Ephron
Author
Language
English
Description
Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," taking a cold, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet) forgotten. A humorous collection of personal essays discusses the author's career in journalism, divorce, a long-anticipated inheritance with unanticipated...
Author
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion world’s most powerful publication to...
Author
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one audiobook.
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way we live now, and on events ranging from the Watergate scandal to...
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way we live now, and on events ranging from the Watergate scandal to...
5) Heartburn
Author
Language
English
Description
When her husband announces that he is in love with another woman, Rachel, a noted cookbook author and TV personality, returns to New York and her wacky but loving family and friends to sort out her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 555 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest--and most acute--writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A romance in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware that they are combative business rivals.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.
9) Bewitched
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen, special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A feature film adaptation based on the long-running ABC television series. It tells the story of Samantha, a pretty modern-day witch who tries to abandon her supernatural powers for the sake of her mortal husband Darren, but temptation gets in the way.
10) My blue heaven
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Witness Protection Program is turned upside down by a mob informant and an FBI agent.
11) Julie & Julia
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
12) You've got mail
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Deluxe edition, remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Superstore book chain magnate and cozy children's bookshop owner are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware they are combative business rivals.
13) Mixed nuts
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wild and wacky comedy about oddball characters in Los Angeles at Christmastime, centered around a suicide hotline service.
14) Michael
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert", are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live archangel named Michael.
15) Silkwood
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Double feature second-DVD set.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sleepless in Seattle : After his mother dies, an eight year old boy confides on a radio phone-in that he wants to find someone for his father to marry. His plea is heard by a journalist who is in an unhappy engagement.
A league of their own : In 1943, Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over, is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are serving in WWII. Reluctant at first,...
17) Hanging up
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three sisters struggle to deal with each other and their aging father.
