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(0)Jeremy Irons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find." Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
cp2001
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a shepherd boy who yearns to travel and ends up risking everything to pursue his destiny. A fable about following your dreams, listening to your heart, and reading life's omens.
3) Longitude
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of clockmaker John Harrison and his attempts at determining longitude at sea with the use of a marine clock, and the parallel story of Rupert Gould, a war veteran who becomes obsessed with Harrison's chronometers.
4) Margin call
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the early days of the 2008 financial crisis, the employees at a Wall Street investment firm face decisions about their company and investors.
Publisher
Rhino Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
" blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy."--from IMDb.com (as viewed on 4/9/2009) mcm.
6) Being Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A famous actress in 1930's London becomes bored and tries to generate excitement in her life by taking a much younger lover.
7) Dead ringers
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Identical twin gynecologists who have shared everything in life find their lives descending into madness when a special woman captures their attention.
Series
Criterion collection volume 768
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
When film actors Mike and Anna play Charles and Sarah, an engaged young Victorian man and the cast-off mistress of a French lieutenant, they find their own relationship paralleling the roles that they play.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
Publisher
Institute for Responsible Technology
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.
11) High-rise
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Laing is the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight.
13) Appaloosa
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a lawless town from the murderous rancher. Their efforts become complicated and their friendship is tested when a young widow arrives in town.
14) Stealing beauty
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.
15) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone; it is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom.
16) The lion king
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Simba begins life as an honored prince, son of the powerful King Mufasa. The cub's happy childhood turns tragic when his evil uncle Scar murders Mufasa and drives Simba away from the kingdom. In exile, the young lion befriends the comically bumbling pair of Pumbaa the warthog and Timon the meerkat and lives a carefree jungle life. As he approaches adulthood, however, he is visited by the spirit of his father, who instructs him to defeat the nefarious...
17) The alchemist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
18) Lolita
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shylock has grown wealthy through money-lending, the only profession open to Jewish businessmen of the time, but faces indignity and danger when he ventures beyond the Jewish quarter. In the same city, though in a different world, lives Antonio, a Christian merchant beset by worry over the fate of his trading vessels and his increasing isolation from his best friend Bassanio. The younger man has fallen in love with the beautiful Portia, and seeks...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Waste is something we all make every day but often pay little attention to. That's changing, and model programs around the globe show the many different ways a community can strive for, and achieve, zero-waste status.
Scientist-turned-activist Paul Connett, a leading international figure in decades-long battles to fight pollution, has championed efforts to curtail overconsumption and keep industrial toxins out of our air and drinking water and
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