Nick Hornby
1) About a boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity
Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women – women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will – might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single...
Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women – women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will – might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.
New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
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New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely-until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince. Equipped with...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
132 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Married for years, Tom and Louise thought they had a stable home life-- until a recent incident pushed them to the brink. Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment, they begin to wonder: what if you take your marriage apart to see what's in there, but then you're left with a million pieces? For ten weeks, meeting before their weekly therapy sessions, their conversation forces them to look at their...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Ein warmherziges und unterhaltsames Hörbuch über Kunst, Kreativität und die überraschenden Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem viktorianischen Romancier Charles Dickens und dem modernen amerikanischen Rockstar Prince.
Mit der Bewunderung eines Fans und seinem typischen Humor und Witz zeigt uns Nick Hornby die kuriosen Ähnlichkeiten zwischen zwei auf ihre Art genialen Künstlern, die bis heute gelesen oder gehört, bewundert und nachgeahmt werden.
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9) Fever pitch
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman, finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend, suddenly anything is possible.
10) Wild
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
11) Juliet, naked
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
12) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/Spanish dialogue version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara...
