Anonymous
1) Go ask Alice
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste -- and liked it. Really liked it. Social drinking and drugging lead to more, faster, harder... She convinced herself that she was no different from anyone...
3) A warning
Publisher
Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its writer anonymity. Described only as "a senior official in the Trump administration," the author provided eyewitness insight into White House chaos, administration instability, and the people working to keep Donald Trump's reckless impulses in check. With the 2020 election on the horizon, Anonymous speaks out once again. It will surprise and...
6) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process.
8) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
9) The meddler
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her husband's passing, a widow follows her daughter to Los Angeles from New York City hoping to start a new life.
10) Stillwater
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
11) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has blazed...
12) The chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
13) Spotlight
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
A team of investigative reporters for the Boston Globe work to expose decades of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and cover-ups of the crimes by the Catholic Church.