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101) The Aftermath
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 videodisc (circa 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity...
102) Dreamland
Pub. Date
2021
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1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A teen bounty hunter is torn between helping or capturing a seductive fugitive bank robber hiding in his small town during the Great Depression.
103) My Struggle, Book 6
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My struggle volume 1
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18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine: He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable...
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This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned...
Pub. Date
2017
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1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Told through the eyes of Michael Jackson's trusted bodyguards, this scripted drama reveals firsthand the devotion Michael had to his children, and the hidden drama that took place during the last two years of his life.
106) Last Resort
Pub. Date
2022
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1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two terminally ill hospice residents plan to make their spouses fall in love to lessen the impact of their death.
107) An Acceptable Loss
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 videodisc (circa 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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She was the ultimate patriot. Now, what she knows could bring down the government. Libby is a former top national security advisor who, while working with ruthless political veteran Rachel, signed off on a controversial military action that was supposed to end the war on terror. Except thousands died under false pretenses. Haunted by this, Libby sets out to tell the truth, risking treason and her own life, to expose a cover-up that stretches all the...
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William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
109) Hereditary
Pub. Date
2018
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1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When the matriarch of the Graham framily passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
"...It's nice to have a classicist back in town."--Boston Globe
"...this movie promises a paradoxically bright future for its director."--Michael Phillips
"This remarkable directorial debut from Ari Aster builds on classical horror tropes..."--New York Post
"Collette's performance is staggering..."--Variety...
110) Breaking
Pub. Date
2022
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1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 videodisc (circa 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hotheaded engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion-dollar Challenger launch, convinced the O-ring seals would fail and kill everyone on board. The rocket contracting company, Marshall Space Flight Center, and NASA made a business decision. He made a human decision.
112) Finding Neverland
Pub. Date
2020
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1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspired by events in the life of author James Mathew Barrie, Finding Neverland traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the boy who never grows up.
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[2020]
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1 videodisc (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nature Of Love: City girl Katie is writing a magazine feature on a glamping resort. Far from sporty, she faces her fears trying the camp's activities with help from Will, a rugged outdoorsman and nature guide. Pearl In Paradise: Alex, a photographer for a travel magazine, and Colin, a best-selling author, team up to find an elusive Fijian "pearl." As both of their careers hang in the balance, their treasure hunt in a Fijian valley might lead them...
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In Baroness Emma Orczy's 1905 novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel", the year is 1792 and the French Revolution is complete. People die by the guillotine every day, often unjustly. Stepping in to right these wrongs and rescue the innocent is the elusive "Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious agent named for the red flower that is his signature. Meanwhile, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and his French actress wife Marguerite are having marital difficulties when Marguerite...
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The Home and the World (1916) is a novel by Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore. Written after Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel dramatizes the Swadeshi movement for Indian independence from British rule. Through the lens of one family, Tagore illuminates the conflict between Western culture and Indian nationalism while exploring the complex relationships of men and women in modern India.
Concerned for his wife, who spends...
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First published in 1852, "The Blithedale Romance" is the third of Nathaniel Hawthorne's romantic novels. Set in the utopian communal farm called Blithedale in the 1840's, the novel tells the story of four inhabitants of the commune: Hollingsworth, a misogynist philanthropist obsessed with turning Blithedale into a colony for the reformation of criminals; Zenobia, a passionate feminist; Priscilla, a mysterious lady with a hidden agenda who turns out...
117) King of Thieves
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on the infamous true events.
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's time for a special Family Holiday. Join Peppa Pig, her little brother George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig on their fun-filled trip abroad. Peppa is enjoying all of the sights and sounds of Italy, but she also can't wait to go home and see her friends. Little ones will love the four-part sunny adventure and the rest of this cheery peppasode collection.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (453 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A comedic sci-fi drama based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name, this show follows a crash-landed alien who must take on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and somehow find a way to fit in with the local human population. While attempting to complete his secret mission on Earth, he is forced to consider the possibility that humans might be worth saving after all.
120) Road to Christmas
Pub. Date
2019
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1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker unwittingly falls for Danny Wise, the son and former producer of his mother's popular annual Christmas special Julia Wise Lifestyle. When Maggie's secret plan to reunite Danny and his two brothers with Julia during the live broadcast in Vermont goes awry, Maggie is reminded that above all, it is the love for family and friends that makes the merriest of Christmas.
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