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Series
The Lord of the rings volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
While Frodo Baggins and his friend Samwise continue on to Mordor to destroy the one ring, their allies launch assaults on Isengard, Helm's Deep, and the corrupt wizard Saruman.
2) 1984
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. After a bad day, Bruce flies into a rage and blames God for making his life so miserable. God responds by endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers and challenges him to take on "The Big Job" to see if he can do it any better.
4) The Terminal
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres the...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
8) Game 6
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Playwright Nicky Rogan is a die-hard Red Sox fan who has lived his entire life in NYC. The opening of his new play is on the same day as the historic sporting event, Game 6 of the 1986 World series.
Publisher
Cosmos Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Cosmos spans its own galaxy of topics, each segment deepening our understanding of how we got from there (simple microbes in the primordial mud) to here (space-faring civilization in the 21st century). In his "ship of the imagination," Sagan guides us to the farthest reaches of space and takes us back into the history of scientific inquiry, from the ancient library of Alexandria to the NASA probes of our neighboring planets. Upon this vast canvas...
10) Quidam
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
"Cirque du Soleil takes its unique, award-winning show from under the big top and brings it into your home to enjoy forever! This collector's item features one of their most popular shows, Quidam, which was recorded live in Amsterdam. Known throughout the world as masters of awe insiring performance art, Cirque du Soleil continues to thrill with the most amazing acrobatics ever seen"--Container.
11) October sky
Language
English
Description
The true story of Homer Hickam Jr., a high school student in rural West Virginia, who seemed destined to repeat his father's harsh life in the coal mines, until he turned his attention to the skies.
12) Che
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Che Guevara, el joven idealista y revolucionario que luchó por los pobres y oprimidos, ha inspirado a una tras otra generación. Fascinante historia acerca de la intrépida vida del Che líder de una sangrienta rebelión socialista que sacudiría al mundo entero.
Rebel. Hero. Lover. Legend. Che has inspired generation after generation as the young idealist and revolutionary who fought for the poor and oppressed. A story about Che's fearless life...
13) Babel
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
14) Fargo year 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Okey-dokey, watcha got here is the darkly humorous and utterly riveting third season. Ewan McGregor gives one heckuva performance in dual roles as the âParking Lot King of Minnesota,â Emmit Stussy, and his younger brother, Ray, a potbellied parole officer with a big chip on his shoulder. The only bright spot in Rayâs life is Nikki, a not-so-good woman with brains, beauty and a passion for competitive bridge.
15) Men in Black 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sci-fi action violence, and brief suggestive content.
Agent J must travel back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s and save his partner, Agent K, from being assassinated by an alien. Along the way, Agent J teams up with young Agent K and learns that there are secrets to the universe that Agent K never told him.
16) Awakenings
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he saves.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
20) Pan's labyrinth
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.