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1) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
2) Factotum
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Follows a struggling alcoholic writer working dead-end jobs, drinking, and chasing women while trying to get his work published.
Language
English
Description
Hailed by critics as one of the most thoughtful and important TV dramas ever, the sweeping fourteen-part remastered adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet is the story of the men and women of both ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On June 12, 1901, Gregorio Cortez, a young Mexican family man, shoots and kills a sheriff in self-defense. For the next 11 days, he eludes an inflamed posse of 600 Texas Rangers in a 450 mile chase across Texas. His manhunt captures the nation's interest and his eventual trial is tainted by the extreme emotions of the country.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1075
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A comedy that chronicles the individual struggles of several high school teenagers in southern California as they deal with independence, success, money, school, adults, self-esteem, the opposite sex, and more.
Series
Language
English
Description
A spaceship lands in Washington D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Billy Gray) befriend him...And soon realize that they may be all that stands between...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Nineteen stories on the battle of the sexes. Included are Gertrude Talks Back, a monologue by Hamlet's mother, The Little Red Hen Tells All, which is on male chauvinism, and Happy Endings, a series of scenarios for finding love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, An Imprint of Hal Leonard Corpration
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the numerous film adaptations of Stephen King's works, from the well-known hits to the box office flops, providing background, analysis, and trivia for each film as well as information on works in other media.
13) The wind rises
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
Dramatizes the life of Jiro Horikoshi as he designs modern fighter planes against the backdrop of Japan's national tragedies in the years between World War I and World War II.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
16) Poirot: Series 2
Publisher
ITV Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, c1990
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's marvelously mustachioed Belgian detective returns in the second series of the hit PBS mystery. Hercule Poirot uses his formidable 'little grey cells' to outwit criminals and fellow sleuths alike.
17) The great influenza: the true story of the deadliest pandemic in history (young readers edition)
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times bestseller. At the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, and then exploded worldwide, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic
Pub. Date
[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
20) Sunset Song
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War.The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.