Regina Taylor
2) The wedding
Author
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, a girl from the black bourgeoisie in Martha's Vineyard announces her engagement to a white musician. The novel follows the impact this has on her family and the community around them. By the author of The Living Is Easy.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The team scrambles to make sense of the disintegration of the unit. The unit reunites to rescue Mack and clear their names. Nerve gas is stolen and the team is sent to retrieve it. Jonas tests his daughter's strength and conviction when she decides to enlist. The team deals with a loss and Jonas vows revenge.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
They are The Unit, a covert Special Forces team operating outside the usual military chain of command, risking their lives on undercover missions at home and abroad. Their identities are highly classified, a secret that's also fiercely guarded by their wives. But despite the men's determination to protect their families from the dangers of the job, they've learned that the enemy they have defeated in the field is also capable of bringing the fight...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as 'Clark Rockefeller,' became part of Boston's highly respected elite and used that status to charm his way into the life of millionaire Sandra Boss. After twelve years of marriage, the couple would divorce and Sandra would be awarded custody of their only child, Reigh. Clark's lifelong con game would finally be exposed after he abducts Reigh and the search for her reveals the deception he is...
10) Cora unashamed
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
11) Saturday Church
Author
Language
English
Description
A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
12) Losing Isaiah
Author
Language
English
Description
Jessica Lange and Halle Berry give performances of uncommon poignancy and depth. Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned child a new chance at life. Berry, in a remarkable portrayal heralded as her dramatic breakthrough, is the birth mother who cleans up her life and sets out to reclaim the child. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) portrays her firebrand attorney.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors of all time. Now five of his most provocative, thought-provoking films are available in one collection. From the breakout hit dramedy "Do the right thing" to the gritty, urban "Clockers," Lee peels away life's layers, exposing the ironies, brutalities, rhythms and prejudices of the naked city in this powerful collector's set.
Clockers (1995): a film about the violent world of drug...