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
"Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm"--
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"Every day she wakes up with a million questions and a billion ideas! And today she has an amazing idea: she’s going to throw her mom a birthday party. Shhh . . . It’s a surprise!
Then Betty and her best friends, Mae and Jeffery, have the best idea of all: What if they threw Mom a circus surprise party?! A humongous, tremendous, stupendous circus!
But after an unexpected turn of events, Betty will have to use her busy brain to save the day."...
3) Busy Betty
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"--
Busy Betty has always been busy . . . even when she was just a baby! When Betty gives Frank a big hug, she realizes he needs a bath, PRONTO! Her best friend, Mae, is coming over, and Betty can’t have the smelliest dog in the whole world! But giving Frank...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
This book is an historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To kill a mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go set a watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To kill a mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go set a watchman...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
7) Sing
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
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.
8) Election
Series
Criterion collection volume Spine 904
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Perky, overachieving high schooler Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets on the nerves of social-studies teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for student-body president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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.
10) Best laid plans
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Welcome to Tropico, a gray little town smack dab in the middle of nowhere where nothing ever happens--until a botched robbery leaves Nick (Nivola) 48 hours to pay up or die.
11) Inherent vice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
12) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
13) Rendition
Publisher
Reel DVD [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2013]
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...
14) Election
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A teacher tries to derail the campaign of a girl determined to become student body president.
15) Walk the line
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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...
16) Devil's knot
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In a gripping, heart-wrenching true story that shocked the nation. May 5, 1993. West Memphis, Arkansas. Three young boys playing in the nearby woods never come home for dinner. In the rush to find and convict the killers, police focus on a trio of teenagers suspected of devil worship. It is only when an investigator reveals that the evidence doesn't all add up, that the community is forced to face the reality that the true killer might still be out...
17) Hot pursuit
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
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.
18) Wild
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
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.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Susan, B.O.B., the Missing Link, and Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D., are back as special operatives dispatched to investigate a mysterious alien presence on Halloween. As the night unravels the innocent-looking pumpkins are revealed for what they really are: mutant aliens! Luckily the monsters are there to smash the mutants' wicked scheme to take over Earth.