Janet McTeer
1) Matilda Bone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
Formats
Description
A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client's papers. While he works alone in the client's isolated house, he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman who is terrorizing the locals. This leads him on a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris's family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargainedfor....
6) Tumbleweeds
Pub. Date
2000
Description
After her latest failed relationship, free-spirited, four-times married Mary Jo Walker hits the road and heads West with her 12-year old daughter Ava in search of greener pastures.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, placed in a setting inspired by nineteenth-century Japan, in which exiled royals--including a duke's daughter disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.
10) The menu
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A young couple travels to a faraway secluded island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared an extravagant menu, with some shocking surprises.
11) Songcatcher
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
12) Albert Nobbs
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
14) Five Days
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Leanne vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over the next three months, Leanne's husband and family soon learn that nobody is what they seem. Everyone is a suspect. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.
16) Hannah Arendt
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
A brilliant biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker, controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils, introduced her now-famous concept of the 'Banality of Evil.' Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible...
17) Albert Nobbs
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client's papers. While he works alone in the client's isolated house, he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman who is terrorizing the locals. This leads him on a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
20) Tideland
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
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