Girl, Interrupted: Screenplay based on the book
10 best books like Girl, Interrupted: Screenplay based on the book (James Mangold): The Stepford Wives, Goodnight Moon, Girl, Interrupted, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The House at Pooh Corner, George's Marvellous Medicine, Watch Me Disappear, Requiem for a Dream (Screenplay), One Candle
| Author | Ira Levin |
| ISBN | 0060080841 |
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
At once a masterpiece of psychological...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0060775858 |
In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room -- to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one -- the little...
| Author | Susanna Kaysen |
| ISBN | 0679746048 |
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
| Author | Muriel Barbery |
| ISBN | 1933372605 |
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.
We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0375822070 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG!!! YOU ARE OLD!!!! EVEN OLDER THAN LAST YEAR!
greg's birthday is today, so i am floating this now to remind you that you still have time to shower him with presents!
it is greg's birthday!!! and as a treat for him, i am going to create a book review in which i use plenty...
| Author | A.A. Milne |
| ISBN | 0525444440 |
Winnie-the-Pooh, the Best Bear in All the World, has long been adored by readers young and old. In this beautiful full-color gift edition of "The House at Pooh Corner, " Ernest H. Shepard's classic illustrations have been painstakingly hand-colored. An exquisite volume and the perfect gift for any...
George's Marvellous Medicine
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0224064908 |
George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George...
| Author | Janelle Brown |
| ISBN | 0812989465 |
It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan—a beautiful, charismatic Berkeley mom with an enviable life—went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. No body—only a hiking boot—has ever been found. Billie’s husband and teenage daughter cope with her death the...
From the writer/director of the acclaimed film Pi, the screen-adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s classic cult novel. Requiem for a Dream is a modern-day fable set on the rusted mean streets of Brooklyn's Coney Island that follows the stories of four people desperately in pursuit of a better life. Oscar-winning...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0060085606 |
For one family the traditional Hanukkah celebration has a deeper meaning. Amidst the food and the festivities, Grandma and Great-Aunt Rose begin their story -- the one they tell each year. They pass on to each generation a tale of perseverance during the darkest hours of the Holocaust, and the strength...
La Vita E Bella = Life is beautiful, Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian book shop...
| Author | Isabelle Vanderschelden |
Two guys Jeunet and Carot made Delicatessen in 1991 which is an all time favourite of mine, then followed it up with The City of Lost Children four years later. Hard to believe, this second film is much weirder and much better, one of my top ten movies. (Not many other people liked it but I don’t care. Maybe...
Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook
| Author | Michael Garland |
| ISBN | 0142402826 |
When Zack meets his second-grade teacher, Miss Smith, he can tell right away that her class will be different. However, he has no idea just how different it will be.
Zack can't wait for Mrs. Smith to read out loud again from her incredible book. The first story fills the classroom with dueling...
The Manual to Manhood: How to Cook the Perfect Steak, Change a Tire, Impress a Girl & 97 Other Skills You Need to Survive
| Author | Jonathan Catherman |
| ISBN | 0800722299 |
There's a lot a guy needs to know as he grows up and makes his way in the world. And a lot of it, he wouldn't necessarily want to have to ask about because then, well, people would know he didn't know what he was doing! For all the guys out there who want to have it all together, Jonathan Catherman offers this collection...
