Linda Hunt
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Language
English
Description
Desperate. Determined. Unwaveringly confident.
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of the American continent to win a $10,000 wager. On foot.
A mother of eight living children, she attempts to save her family's homestead in Eastern Washington after the 1893 depression had ravaged the American economy. Fearing homelessness and family poverty, Helga responds to a wager from a mysterious sponsor, casts off
...Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Harold Crick - IRS auditor, milquetoast, and poster child for obsessive-compulsive disorder - wakes one morning to hear a woman's voice in his bathroom, narrating his life as he is living it, subsequently announcing his imminent death. This is a big problem, since Harold has a burning crush on Ana, his latest audit case. Searching for the source of the voice, he turns to literary theory-spewing professor Jules Hilburt, who eventually discovers that...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1982
Language
English
Description
Guy Hamilton, an Australian reporter on assignment in politically unstable Indonesia, joins forces with a savvy photographer to expose government corruption. When the country is moving close to the edge of civil war, Hamilton's lover, an attache with the British embassy, wants him to leave. But Hamilton presses on to expose the truth, even if it costs him his life.