Ethan Hawke
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
"The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak--a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes. A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
"It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, andon all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. "Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen to...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
"Set against the quiet and unassuming city of Huntsville, Texas, Jack "Meadowlark" Johnson, and his teenage son, Cooper embark on a journey of epic proportions. Told over the course a single day, this electrifying graphic novel recounts Cooper's struggle to survive the consequences of his father's mistakes and the dangers they have brought home to his estranged family. As Cooper and his father desperately navigate cascading threats of violence, they...
4) Maudie
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this amorous drama follows the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke). Nominated for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Montclair Film Festival.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
6) Sinister
Publisher
Alliance
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder. Now, desperate to replicate the success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery....
7) Gattaca
Language
English
Description
"A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel"-- IMDb.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
10) Daybreakers
Publisher
Maple Pictures
Language
English
Description
After a plague turns the majority of humans into vampires, a shortage of blood causes the vampires to hunt down the last of the surviving humans until the humans start fighting back.
11) Maudie
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, Maud takes a job as a housekeeper for a lifelong bachelor Everett, and soon attracts national attention for her skills as a folk art painter.
12) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Follows an arms dealer as he contends with his conscience, his wife, his psychotic warlord business partner and constant pursuit by a determined federal agent.