Eva Longoria
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A celebration of Mexican ingredients and traditions. While hosting Searching for Mexico on CNN, Eva Longoria reconnected with her Mexican roots and tasted iconic Mexican dishes like meat-stuffed Chiles en Nogada draped in a creamy walnut sauce and the Yucat̀n classic Pollo Asado, made with an aromatic garlic-citrus-achiote paste. In My Mexican Kitchen, she embraces the techniques and flavors she discovered and brings them home to her Southern California...
2) Overboard
Publisher
Pantelion
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee. A remake of the 1987 comedy.
4) Frontera
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set along the tumultuous Arizona-Mexico border, follows Miguel, a hardworking father and devoted husband who crosses the border illegally and is wrongfully accused of murdering the wife of a former sheriff. Miguel's pregnant wife lands in the hands of corrupt Mexican "Coyote" smugglers as she tries to help her husband, while the ex-lawman investigates his wife's death and unearths evidence that could destroy one family's future.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
"Aunque Eva Longoria es mejor conocida por su papel de la pícara Gabrielle Solis en 'Desperate Housewives, ' en su tiempo privado, hay pocos lugares donde prefiera estar que en su cocina ... En este libro, Eva nos enseña sus comidas preferidas a través de recetas que trazan la historia de su vida ... En su primer libro de cocina, Eva nos da la bienvenida a sus cocina, ofreciendo 100 de sus platos favoritos ..."--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Over a 70+ year career, Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of the rare EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Award Winners of our time. Her resilience and talent triumphed over adversity and broke barriers for generations of artists who refuse to be pigeonholed.
8) Unplugging
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To revive their marriage and reconnect, a couple (Eva Longoria and Matt Walsh) takes a self-prescribed digital detox weekend to a remote mountain town. What starts as a perfect weekend getaway without technology quickly spirals out of control, forcing them to discover the only way home is to rely on each other.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz the film centers on the friendship between two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso who explore a new, unusual friendship and the magical road to self-discovery.
10) John Wick
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
11) The sentinel
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Pete Garrison is on the presidential protection detail when another Secret Service agent is murdered. An informer tells Garrison about an elaborate assassination conspiracy that is related to this murder and is well underway. Garrison also happens to be having an affair with the First Lady, the stress of which causes him to flunk a lie detector test when word of the plot to kill the president becomes more than just paranoia. Garrison is soon on the...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An anthology film comprised of seven segments that are directed by female directors from different parts of the world and shot in Italy, India, Japan, and the U.S. Each segment is an inspirational and empowering story about women, by women, for everyone.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With Nicholas Kristof, Jennifer Garner returns to her native West Virginia to visit families enrolled in Save the Children’s Early Steps program, which introduces books and early learning to children living in poverty, and provides social and emotional support for the mothers. One child benefiting from the program is Johnny Weethee, who was just accepted into pre-K with the help of program coordinator Tonya Bonecutter. Another family in Tonya’s...
15) Arthur Christmas
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child₂s question: ₁So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?₂ The answer: Santa₂s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
16) Decline & fall
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follow the exploits of Paul Pennyfeather, whose unfair expulsion from Oxford kick-starts a disastrous series of events, wherein he is by turn a naive teacher, a celebrity bridegroom, a wanted fugitive, and an international white slave-trader.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A Path Appears, from the creative team behind the series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and a group of dedicated actor/advocates to Colombia, Haiti, Kenya, and throughout the United States. They uncover the harshest forms of gender inequality, the devastating impact of poverty and the ripple effects that follow: including sex trafficking,...
18) The sentinel
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A career Secret Service agent with his own hidden secrets becomes the lead suspect in a plot to assassinate the President of the United States.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora for her biggest challenge yet: High School. When her parents mysteriously disappear while searching for the Lost City of Gold, Dora must swing into action and lead a group of ill-equipped high schoolers on a quest to save them. It is a high stakes mission as Dora and her new friends navigate the jungle, outrun treasure hunters and solve ancient puzzles...
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the Cristero War (1926-1929) fought by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government. Focuses on retired General Enrique Gorostieta Velarde, who was reluctant to join in the war, and José Luis Sánchez del Rio, a young boy who witnessed a priest's murder and later is tortured by the government.