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Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Language
English
Description
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race,...
3) Carrie
Author
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
4) Missing
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed political drama about a father's search for his missing son in Latin America
5) 3 women
Series
Criterion collection volume 230
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A naive Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. Her role model is a would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman's Day magazines. When they move in together it turns into something stranger and more sinister.
"*** Perfectly presented in its original widescreen aspect ratio ... Recommended."--Video Librarian.
"A film of immediate emotional impact."--New York Times.
"A brilliant, moody, thought-provoking...
6) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy...
Language
English
Description
Odessa Cotter, a quiet and dignified black woman, works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama. When Martin Luther King organizes a boycott of the city bus system, Odessa begins walking to and from work. Miriam decides to support her housekeeper, defying both her racist husband and the powerful White Citizen's Council. Soon, the two womean are brought together in a lasting friendship that puts their lives in danger in the...
10) Tuck everlasting
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a year, he was...
13) Prime cut
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Kansas City mobster uses a meat processing factory as a front for his drug and prostitution business. There, gangsters are ground into sausage, and women are sold like cattle. Things change, however, when Chicago tough guy Nick comes to town.
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The Magrath sisters are reunited after a bizarre incident. Together again under the same roof, they must overcome sibling jealousies and the family reputation for taking the easy way out
16) The Radical
Publisher
Passion Productions
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A young heiress rejects her pampered lifestyle and becomes a violent revolutionary, rebelling against social injustices, and the system that spawned them
17) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"F. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lifetime battling demons - alcohol and a schizophrenic wife - yet, he wrote some of the greatest novels in American literature. Despite a tumultouous relationship with his mistress, an ailing wife, declining health, and daily drinking binges, Fitzgerald secretly wrote a scathing novel about the film industry which some call his best work. It was his final triumph."--Insert
19) Deadfall
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. They split up and make a run for the Canadian border in blizzard conditions, vowing to reunite in Canada. Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, and retired sheriff. It's there the siblings are reunited in a tense and thrilling showdown.