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"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge,...
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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English
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Alice is a bored schoolgirl who yearns for a more exciting life. Things get "curiouser and curiouser" after she follows the frantic White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and has a series of surreal misadventures in the madcap world of Wonderland, where "nothing's impossible." In Wonderland, Alice meets extraordinary characters such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat.
83) The good thief
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bob is an aging American thief is living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the midst of an extended personal losing streak when he rescues a new girl in town named Anne from her pimp. When the opportunity to steal a fortune in rare paintings from a Monte Carlo casino comes along, Bob hopes for a score big enough to let him retire from his life of crime. His only hindrances are Anne's man troubles and his nemesis,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; c4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
86) A Thousand Acres
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jane Smiley's spellbinding novel also headed bestseller lists for many months. A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand...
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus (which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person) as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences. But one balmy Mississippi night in 1954, Henry disappears in the company of three rowdy white teens and...
89) Crazy heart
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English
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The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
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The Chronicles of Narnia volume 1
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 1
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia volume no. 1
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 1
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia volume no. 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
91) The Iron Lady
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English
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Meryl Streep portrays Margaret Thatcher, who became the first and only female Prime Minister of England. The Iron Lady is the surprisingly intimate journey of a "common" grocer's daughter whose social ambition and steel will propelled her to unprecedented power in a world dominated by men.
93) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.
Publisher
RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After noted explorer Edward Dennison vanishes, a search party led by anthropologist Jonathan Brock embarks on a mission to find him. Retracing Dennison's last known tracks through a secret passage in Alaska--a gateway to the very center of the Earth--the team discovers an underworld tribe of primitive warriors and prehistoric dangers previously unknown to civilization.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen [edition].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Toula and Ian have raised a headstrong daughter while trying to keep the spark alive. But just as they think they are balancing an independent teen, aging parents and the rest of the irrepressible clan, the revelation of a shocking secret will bring the three generations of the family closer than ever.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 385 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner Jesse Pinkman each try to get clear of the wreckage they've left behind in the meth world, and DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of 'Heisenberg' gains steam, leading up to a shattering finale that will leave no one in Walt's world unscathed.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Author
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A wartime love—across enemy lines. “The strong writing, with its attention to detail, wonderful descriptions and authentic dialogue, holds our attention.” —Historical Novel Society
When widow Millie Sanger finds injured enemy pilot Lukas Schiller on her farm, the distant war is suddenly at her doorstep. Compassionate Millie knows he’ll be killed if discovered, and makes the dangerous...
When widow Millie Sanger finds injured enemy pilot Lukas Schiller on her farm, the distant war is suddenly at her doorstep. Compassionate Millie knows he’ll be killed if discovered, and makes the dangerous...
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Language
English
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Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.