Showing results for "Sonny" in Genre Fiction

People may call me an "overachieving ice queen," but I would do anything for the people I love. So when my friends ask me to host an event at their famous farm, I'm more than happy to help… until I discover I've been set up.

Fortune hasn't been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can't stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news.

The Widow and the Tree features a 500-year-old Ghosthead Oak, whose stately presence has borne witness to the rise and fall of generations, to the hopes and dreams of untold lives, and to the births and deaths of innumerable residents alongcoastal Alabama. So why would a widow enter a biker bar and hire a man to chainsaw the cherished landmark?

Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the 20th century, No Pain Like This Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss.

Border patrol agents are being ambushed along the Big Bend region of West Texas, a notorious drug corridor running east and west across the Lone Star State. They’re not the only targets. A film production depicting human trafficking in the area has been attacked by a brutal drug cartel. Into this lawless frontier steps Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke, ready and willing to dispense his own brand of justice. It’s an all-out war with the thinnest line separating the good from the bad. Sonny knows the only way out is to aim straight and stand your ground....

Non bisognerebbe mai addormentarsi arrabbiati: si rischia di finire sballottati da un confine all’altro dello spazio. È quel che succede a Primo, che in una notte di sconforto si ritrova risucchiato in un’avventura di quelle che cambiano la vita. Insieme al suo pupazzo Malcolm, approda sul pianeta delle Tzor, minacciate dal Leviatano, poi su quello della misteriosa e indipendente Regina senza Re, e il viaggio continua tra incontri paurosi, inquietanti, commoventi. Primo vorrebbe solo tornare a casa, ma dovrà imparare a combattere, oltre a nemici e mostri, le sue emozioni.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie, featuring the original stars, aired on November 1, 1943.