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21) Twelve angry men
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xi, 73 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A play in which a juror in a murder trial holds out on a guilty verdict and tries to get the other jurors to look at the situation without being swayed by their personal prejudices or biases.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
"'Trouble With...
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Guild
Pub. Date
1918
Language
English
Description
The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
24) Ratatouille
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 dvd (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + insert.
Language
English
Description
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. Includes animated shorts and deleted scenes.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and times of Queen Victoria from her childhood to her early rise to power and the first turbulent years of her rule. Her romantic relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Albert culminates in a royal power struggle which ultimately is the key to her happiness when she comes to the realization that he is someone she can fully trust and believe in. Includes: deleted scenes, extended scenes, and featurettes.
26) Something blue
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Her belief in the power of beauty shattered when her fiance dumps her for a plain woman, a pregnant Darcy flees to London and struggles to rebuild her glamorous life before realizing that her past methods no longer work.
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated. Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
29) The book thief
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
"Markus Zusak's international bestseller The Book Thief has been brought to the...
30) Seven guitars
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
101 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
31) Forever My Girl
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being gone for a decade a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
"The two leads are both highly appealing..."--Hollywood Reporter
33) Joe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
"Mr. Cage gives his most committed performance in years..."--New York Times.
"The film belongs to Cage."--Rolling Stone.
"...can't be ignored."--TIME Magazine.
"Gripping..."--Chicago Sun-Times.
34) Dream Horse
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Experience the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely racehorse bred by small-town bartender Jan Vokes. With little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to raise Dream and compete against the racing elites, becoming a beacon of hope in their struggling community as he rises through the ranks.
35) Land
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
37) The Way Back
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now, years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past...
38) The Post
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government.
"Steven Spielberg's tense, terrific new drama, with Streep and Hanks at their finest, celebrates the passionate bond between a free press and every thinking human being, however diminished the species in Trump's America."--Rolling Stone
"The Post' is meat and...
39) I Still Believe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true life story of Christian music megastar Jeremy Camp and his remarkable journey of love and loss that proves there is always hope in the midst of tragedy, and that faith tested is the only faith worth sharing.
40) The Father
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.