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Series
Pirates of the Caribbean volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow, who is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker, they must face their foes. Lord Cutler Beckett, now has control of Jones' heart and forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, together. The Pirate Lords...
22) Spare Parts
Description
Four Hispanic high school students organize a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and big dreams, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
"...Matsueda's screenplay is alert to details that ground the film in the day-to-day lives of young people who are American in every way but technically."--Hollywood Reporter
"The characters in "Spare Parts" all go through changes that are true...
Description
Publisher's description [from Annenberg Classroom website]: Narrated by veteran CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl, Mandate examines the long and complex relationship between the presidency and public opinion. Leading historians, political scientists, and public figures offer insight into presidents and the presidency from George Washington through FDR.
Description
A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a roller-coaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!
"It's a pure digital fantasy, with elegant and...
27) Ocean's 8
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Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.
"Ocean's 8's girls-just-wanna-have-grand-larceny conceit is the kind of starry, high-gloss goof the summer movie season was made for."--Entertainment Weekly
"You've got stars, gowns, and crisp montage sequences of team building and crime planning... The pleasures of Ocean's 8 are just what you think they'll be."--Village Voice
"Bullock and Co. are a pack...
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 5
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge kilings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between Hollywood...
29) Muse of fire
Description
This documentary , "Operation Homecoming", was created to help U.S. troops and their families write about their wartime experiencess. The program sent distinguished authors to conduct writing workships at military installations across the country and overseas. Selected from more than12,000 pages submitted to the NEA, nearly one hundred memoirs, stories, poems, and letters are published in "Operation Homecoming"; Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front...
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein, this is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner Denny, an aspiring Formula One racecar driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. The film follows Denny and the loves of his life, his wife, Eve,...
32) Elvis
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
33) Sisters
Description
The story of two disconnected sisters summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party for their classmates, which turns into the cathartic rager that a bunch of ground-down adults really need.
34) Solitary man
Description
Ben Kalmen, a fifty-something New Yorker, discovers that he is not the man he wanted to be. Through many business and romantic indiscretions he has lost his once successful car dealership. Now he must make the decision to face the challenges of his not so youthful life.
35) The big white
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A quirky, black comedy about Paul Barnell, a nearly bankrupt Alaskan travel agent whose wife, Margaret, is on the brink of insanity. When he finds a frozen body in the dumpster behind his office, Paul thinks this is answer to his financial problems. He tries to pass the body off as his long-lost brother to collect on the insurance money. Not only does he have to worry about an unrelenting investigator and two aspiring hit men are also after him, his...
37) Night shift
Description
Ever sinco enterprising young men turned the City Morgue into a swinging business, people have been dying to get in.
38) The Revenant
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Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption.
Pub. Date
2004.
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Description
When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Lucy, Peter, Susan, and Edmund find themselves transported to the enchanted world of Narnia after wandering into an old wardrobe in a countryside estate. In Narnia the children discover an evil White Witch who has turned her enemies to stone and placed permanent winter over all the land. According to legend, the brave children are to be lead by Aslan the Great Lion to destroy the witch and transform Narnia back into the paradise it was meant to be....
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