Lili Fini Zanuck
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
It tells the story of genteel but strong-willed Southern matron Daisy Werthan and her patient but equally determined chauffeur Hoke. For two people so different, they have a lot in common. And the bumpy road they travel ultimately leads to the friendship of a lifetime.
3) Cocoon
Description
"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
4) Wild Bill
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Jeff Bridges portrays Wild Bill Hickok, the hard-drinking, quick-shooting gunslinger.
7) Cocoon
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
8) Cocoon
Pub. Date
2002
Description
When the Antareans, advanced beings from another planet, arrive at an old age home in Florida, the senior citizens there get a second chance at being young in this story of youth, old age, and how people choose to live their lives.
9) Rush
Author
Description
In this gut-wrenching thriller, Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh give rich, full-blooded performances as undercover officers Jim Raynor and Kristen Cates, partners who become lovers and addicts as they infiltrate the local drug scene in order to bring down a suspected drug lord. But as their relationship and their drug use intensifies, the fine line between the good guys and the bad guys becomes as blurry as their drug-induced vision. Sam Elliott...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Cocoon: When the Antareans, advanced beings from another planet, arrive at an old age home in Florida, the senior citizens there get a second chance at being young in this story of youth, old age, and how people choose to live their lives.
Cocoon : the return: In this sequel to Cocoon, the senior citizens who left for Antarea return to Earth. After their experiences on Antarea, where life is free of sickness and pain, they find it hard to face such...
11) Reign of Fire
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
In present day London dragons awake. Fast forward 20 years, to a world devastated by their destruction. Fire Chief Quinn, is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a community alive in what's left of the world. Into their midst comes a hotshot American, Van Zan, who says he has a way to destroy the beasts and save mankind.
14) True crime
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A boozing, skirt-chasing and hard-living reporter realizes a death row prisoner scheduled to die at midnight is innocent. He races against time to save the man and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap.