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1) Finding me
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Language
English
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Description
"Much-anticipated, emotionally-charged debut memoir from award-winning actor and icon Viola Davis"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Celebrate 50 years of America's favorite teddy bear with a brand-new, classically illustrated picture book by Academy Award winner Viola Davis.
When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the very first time, it’s so magnificent and exciting that he just can’t help heading out on his own to explore. From the orchestra pit to the prop table to the dressing rooms, Corduroy sees it all. Could there be a place...
When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the very first time, it’s so magnificent and exciting that he just can’t help heading out on his own to explore. From the orchestra pit to the prop table to the dressing rooms, Corduroy sees it all. Could there be a place...
3) Lilia & Eve
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Language
English
Description
Two distraught mothers, whose children were gunned down in a drive-by, team up to avenge their deaths after local authorities fail to take action.
4) Widows
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After finding a gun, money, and detailed plans for the security van hijack that killed her husband, Dolly recruits the other widows to complete the heist.
5) Trust
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this dark thriller, a teenage girl (Liana Liberato, "If I Stay") is targeted by an online sexual predator. Starring Clive Owen and Catherine Keener. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
6) Lila & Eve
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to cope with the loss of her 18-year old son Stephon to drug violence in the neighborhood, a grieving mother Lila (Academy-Award Nominee Viola Davis), attends a support group for mothers whose children have been murdered. There she meets Eve (Jennifer Lopez), a candid kindred spirit. Lila commiserates with Eve on her desire for justice and the fact that the local police lack the resources necessary to pursue her son’s case. Encouraged...
8) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
9) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
10) Lila & Eve
Author
Language
English
Description
Two distraught mothers, whose children were gunned down in a drive-by, team up to avenge their deaths after local authorities fail to take action.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Task force X has been in constant service, but also must constantly recruit new members as the Suicide Squad lives up to its name. For a mission on the island of Corto Maltese, only Waller knows what Colonel Flag and his cons from Belle Reve will face, but team is in for a surprise -- and an enemy -- of epic proportions.
12) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer but turns her friends' lives and a small Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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