Alan Alda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Spooky Reads for Adults
Description
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written THINGS I OVERHEARD WHILE TALKING TO MYSELF, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he’s asked himself over the years.
Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself not...
Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself not...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertaiment/Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Collector's edition ; Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (10 hr., 12 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the doctors and nurses of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital -- the 4077th -- during the Korean War.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shuns him. Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Collector's edition; full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (632 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures continue for the doctors and nurses of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital -- the 4077th -- during the Korean War.
9) Tower heist
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version; special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.
10) Murder at 1600
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Harlan Regis and Secret Service agent Nina Chance are investigating the murder of Carla Town, whose body is found in the White House. The story of murder leads Regis to some dark political secrets and he has to defend the USA and the whole from danger.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version ; Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 664 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Series portrays both the horror and hilarity of the daily lives of MASH unit 4077 in Korea in 1950.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version ; Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (638 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television comedy about the experiences of military doctors and nurses working in a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War.
Series portrays both the horror and hilarity of the daily lives of MASH unit 4077 in Korea in 1950.
14) What women want
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cocky, chauvinistic ad agency exec (Gibson) magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking. He puts this to especially good use with his new superior (Hunt), whose job he was in line to get. Then competition turns into romance.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Collectors edition, full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 637 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures continue for the doctors and nurses of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital -- the 4077th -- during the Korean War.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen version ; Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 502 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Korea, 1950. They were the 4077 MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. After months of living a stone's throw away from the daily bombings and dealing with the resulting nonstop casualties, the docs and nurses still managed to live up to their motto of delivering the "best care anywhere." The only things that kept the continued stress of war from turning these docs into casualties themselves were their own...
17) Wanderlust
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After George loses his high-stress Manhattan job, he and his wife Linda hit the road and wind up crashing at Elysium, a free-spirited community of hippies, tree-huggers, and the occasional nudist.
18) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD)(10 hr., 12 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of the doctors and nurses of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital -- the 4077th -- during the Korean War.
20) The longest ride
Language
English
Formats
Description
The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.