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Pub. Date
2016
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
"As adaptations go, this is a match made in heaven."--Washington Post
"What a lovely meeting, a novelist who was ahead of her time and a filmmaker determinedly, irretrievably outside...
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction puts their religious convictions to the test, and also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship...
4) Moffie
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The year is 1981 and South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and 'die swart gevaar' (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that's not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army,...
5) L.A. Story
Author
Pub. Date
20050111
Description
AN L.A. WEATHERMAN, WHO HATES HIS JOB AND IS STUCK IN A BORING RELATIONSHIP, HAS HIS LIFE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN WHEN HE RECEIVES A MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE FROM A FREEWAY SIGN. Quirks of Los Angeles define the awkward courtship of a local TV weatherman and a journalist from England.
6) Their Finest
Pub. Date
2017
Description
In 1940 set in London the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.
"Inspiring, funny and genuinely romantic, Their Finest is a solid, refreshing crowd-pleaser."--Associated Press.
"Arterton brings grace and understatement to Catrin's gradual belief in herself and in the magic of movies, while Claflin reveals maturity and dry humor that will be a surprise for...
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