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.
Formats
Description
Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women "whiskey in a teacup." Now Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. She shares delicious recipes, favorite southern traditions, magical Christmas mornings, and more. She shows you that there can be a southern side to every place in the...
2) Busy Betty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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
Description
A wonderful new novel from one of America's bestselling authors. Exploring the tensions between a local culture and a changing national political agenda; family arguments and love: an instant classic.
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (7 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
Actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother--actress Diane Ladd--offer a memoir framed around their conversations on love, life, success, and everything in between.
6) Wild
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : col.
Description
Reese Witherspoon stars in this Academy Award-nominated drama based on the true story of Cheryl Strayed, the woman who embarked on a 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in a journey of self-discovery. After the tragic death of her mother and with an impending divorce on the table, Cheryl (Witherspoon) decides to try to find out who she really is and why she insists on abusing her life with men, drugs and bad decisions. Along the way...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
8) Sing 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The ever-optimistic koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet, all in the glittering entertainment capital of the world.
9) Hot pursuit
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
11) Rendition
Pub. Date
2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
12) Sing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater and bring it back to its former glory.
13) Gone girl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan Murphy gets turned into a giant monster on her wedding day when a meteorite from outer space hits her. She is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley group of Monsters are called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.