Red Rock by Kimberley Patterson
Author: Kimberley Patterson Publisher: Kimberley Martinez Published: October 20th 2011 Pages: 314 Summary: (From Goodreads) Red Rock follows the journey of the Hunter family, and their daughter Rachel, a teenager struggling to take care of her ill mother. Her illness…
50/50 (2011)
Directed By: Jonathon Levine Written By: Will Reiser Main Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan, Anna Kendrick, Bruce Dallas Howard and Angelica Huston Storyline: Adam lives a normal life in the offices of a radio station where he has spent a…
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
Author: Suzanne Collins Publisher: Scholastic Published: Pages: 455 Summary: Katniss Everdeen has ridiculed the Capital again but this time her actions have started a full on Rebellion. Nestled in the confines of District 13, she is forced to decide if…
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
Author: Suzanne CollinsPublisher: ScholasticPublished: September 2009Pages: 472 Summary – Katniss Everdeen miraculously survived The Hunger Games but she did so under the watchful eye of the Capital and everyone in Panem. Consequently her triumph started something completely out of her…
Ides of March (2011)
Directed By: George Clooney Written By: George Clooney (Screenplay), Grant Heslov (Screenplay), Beau Willimon (Play and Screenplay) Main Cast: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti. Storyline: This is a film about an ambitious press secretary who…
The Help (2011)
Directed by: Tate Taylor Written By: Tate Taylor (Screenplay) Kathryn Stockett (Novel) Main Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain Storyline: Set in the 60s, in a small town in Mississippi, Skeeter (Stone) has…
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Summary: Katniss Everdeen has grown up in district twelve, a place that has always been controlled by the Capitol. As a way to make sure that they understand this, the Capitol created ‘The Hunger Games’. It is a competition where…
Contagion (2011)
Directed by: Steven SoderberghWritten by: Scott Z. BurnsMain Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Jennifer EhleStoryline: Beth Emhoff comes home to America from Hong Kong with a deadly and unkown virus. This virus is then…
The Cradle Will Fall – Mary Higgins Clark
Summary: Katie DeMaio is a county prosecuter who skids on the ice in her car, causing her to crash into a tree. With the accident landing her in hospital, it is with sleeping eyes that she truthfully witnesses a doctor…
The Northern Lights – The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)
The Northern Lights written by Phillip Pullman is an extraordinary tale of a young girl, Lyra Belacqua, who travels north (to the northern lights) to rescue her best friend who has been kidnapped with many other children. Little does she…
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