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(0)James Brooks
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Draws on oral traditions, archival accounts, and archaeological research to investigate the 1700 slaughter of the Hopi community of Awat'ovi by their kinsmen, examining theories about their welcome of Franciscan missionaries, sorcery practices, politicalcrises, and beliefs about ritual bloodshed.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In this adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling to adjust...
6) Spanglish
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
11) Jerry Maguire
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A sports agent suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, he learns that loving well is the best revenge.
13) How do you know
Language
English
Description
When everything she's ever known is suddenly taken from her, Lisa begins a fling with Matty, a major league baseball player and self-centered ladies man. Before their relationship takes off, Lisa meets up with George a straight-arrow businessman facing his own serious issues, both with his father and the law. Just when everything seems to be falling apart it doesn't.
14) Big
Language
English
Description
"All twelve-year-old Josh Baskin wants is to be big. But when his wish is granted beyond his wildest dreams, Josh finds a new face in the mirror ... his own, at age 30. Now, aided only by his boisterous best friend, he'll have to keep his true age secret as he tries to fill his own oversized shoes. But as his innocent charms help him rise to the top of the adult world, Josh will face the biggest decision of his life -- return to his own age, or remain...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lisa convinces the locals to clean up the polluted Lake Springfield after a crowd of fans sink the Green Day concert stage. Meanwhile, Homer saves a pig from being killed in Krusty Burger and adopts it, calling the animal Spider Pig. After two days, Spider Pig fills up a silo with its excrement and not knowing what else to do, Homer dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. The angry population forces the Simpsons to move to Alaska. Meanwhile, the...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous taxi dispatcher for a New York City taxi company. He tries to maintain order over the varied collection of strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
20) Without wonder
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 36
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Wonder's last foal is born under tragic circumstances, there's little hope for her baby colt. Only Christina can see that the colt is special, just like his mother was. But will she get a chance to prove it?
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