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1) Second act
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A big box store worker, Maya, reinvents her life story to land a job in the corporate side of the company she works for. After the aid of a fabricated resume and social network profile, she is offered the position. She accepts the position to try to prove what street smarts can do.
2) Speedy
Series
Criterion collection volume 788
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Two-dvd special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (86 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : color illustrations ; folded to 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
4) Size 0
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Thea Roberts has loved making clothes ever since her grandmother taught her to sew. Now her designs have captured the attention of Harmon Holt, a wealthy alum from her high school. Before she knows it, Thea's landed an internship with a hot LA designer--and she's about to find out what lurks beneath all the glamour. Can she rise above and seize her opportunity?
Author
Language
English
Description
An enthralling and complex tale about passion and the art.
After graduating from an elite New York ballet school, 18-year-old Anna Forester moves across the country to begin her dance career in Los Angeles. Soon, she is drawn into the circle of her charismatic artistic director and the thrilling aura of company life. Her professional trajectory alienates Anna from her college-age peers, but the ballet community is an intoxicating place where she...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peppa and her friends are using their imagination to decide what to be when they grow up. They explore helping others when learning about the police, doctors, and the fire engine. Later, the playgroup gets excited for a bit of show time! Then it's time to shake, rattle and bang while learning to play instruments for an oinktastic performance! Watch all twelve Peppa-sodes for lots of giggles with Peppa, her little brother George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (969 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
House finds himself in an uncomfortable position: away from the examination room. As he works to regain his license and his life, his coworkers deal with the staff shakeups, moral dilemmas, and their own tricky relationships with House.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs in 5 separate volumes (DVD) (1,060 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain and ignoring his pain killing addiction, he uses his cane to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. House and his team deal with unusual medical mysteries.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bubble Guppies are exploring all types of jobs: doctors, dentists, waiters, firefighters, zookeepers, and more! Swim in to six underwater adventures all about different ways to work AND play with friends!
Language
English
Description
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 68
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi...
14) 9th company
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen; Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from boot camp directly into the war in Afghanistan. Real war is not like boot camp at all. This inexperienced company is sent to defend a difficult position, a task which may be beyond their capabilities.
15) Ida
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
16) Four in a jeep
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Un-cut European version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Vienna following World War II. Four sergeants, one from each of the Allied occupation armies, help a woman whose husband is a fugitive from a Soviet prison even though tension exists between the American and Soviet soldiers.
17) Rambo III
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Ultimate edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rambo battles Russians invading Afghanistan. Includes deleted scenes, audio commentary with Sylvester Stallone and more.
18) Come and see
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
An innocent young farm lad goes off to join the partisans fighting the Nazis and comes to experience, if not understand, the horrors of war.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Okinawa 1946: American troops are deployed to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge is well-meaning but inept, and faces a wily interpreter and a determined geisha girl, along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
20) Free men
Series
Film Movement volume v 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
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