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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
18382) The Tigger movie
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In this charming musical tale of friendship, adventure, and tremendous tiggerific fun, Tigger sets off on a journey to find other Tiggers and through his adventures, comes to understand that families come in all shapes and sizes, even if they all look different.
18383) Action 4 pack: Volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The Octagon (1980, 104 min., full screen): Plagued by painfull memories as a fighter, Scott has stayed away from the dark side of battle. But when a wealthy heiress seeking revenge hires him to infiltrate an international terrorist operation run by his adopted brother, Scott has no idea what he is coming up against.
A Force of one (1979, 91 min., full screen): When a team of undercover narcotics agents comes under attack by a mysterious serial killer,...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Jon Arbuckle travels to the London and decides to bring his cat, Garfield, along for the trip. A case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle after swapping places with an aristocratic kitty who has inherited a fabulous castle. Garfield's reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
18386) The current
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jake has big plans to be drafted by the Chicago Cubs, but his dream vanishes when he inadvertently witnesses a hold-up at a Chicago convenience store. Concerned for his family's safety, Jake's father decides to move them back to rural Minnesota. Still angry with the move, Jake befriends a father and son who God uses to transform Jake's life in unimaginable ways.
18387) Hear and Now: a film
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The daughter of 65-year-old deaf couple Paul and Sally Taylor documents their decision to receive cochlear ear implants that may allow them to hear for the very first time. Although entirely capable and successful without the surgery - Paul as a developer of early deaf-assistive technology, Sally as a strongly communicative and gifted lip reader - the surgery is expected to be life-changing. In the first half of the film the filmmaker, her siblings,...
Author
Series
Peter Powers volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Peter and his best friends embark on an adventure to defeat an army of snowmen, and in the process they save the holidays from being ruined"--
Pub. Date
♭2007
Description
"The gang from the top-rated sitcom is back for more 1950's fun -- Richie Cunningham, his parents Howard and Marion, his buddies Ralph and Potsie, and the coolest greaser, Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli. Join Richie and his friends for more rockin' adventures as they grow into young adulthood."--Container.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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"Natalie Diaz’s debut collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of the mythological intensity of tribal life and a deeply rooted cultural history. In these distinctively voiced poems, a sister struggles with a brother’s addiction to meth, while everyone, from Antigone and Houdini to Huitzilopochtli and Jesus, is invited to hash it out. By turns darkly...
18391) To Dance With the White Dog
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Sam Peek's beloved wife has died after their golden wedding anniversary, and a mysterious white dog adopts him.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the final episodes, Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul bring the saga of Breaking Bad to a bloody conclusion in their roles as meth kingpin Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner Jesse Pinkman. As each tries to get clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of 'Heisenberg' gains steam, leading up to a shattering finale that will leave no one in Walt's world unscathed.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
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Description
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
18394) The godfather: Part III
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In the final installment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protégé's love affair with his daughter....
18395) The ire of Iron Claw
Author
Series
Gadgets and gears volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The daring and loyal dachshund Noodles, the boy inventor Wally Kennewickett, and his scientific genius family and staff of automatons join forces with Nikola Tesla to defeat sky pirates, cross Europe in a giant mechanical spider, and defy the evil Mesmers"--Provided by publisher.
18396) Puff the magic dragon
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Jackie Draper is a shy boy who learns the value of courage from his beloved companion, Puff. Then, Puff helps a young girl deal with her parents' divorce. Lastly, Puff teaches a gifted boy to believe in his own creative abilities.
18398) Sorrell and son
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated British army officer, returns home after the First World War to face unemployment, poverty and his wife's desertion. Determined to educate his son as a gentleman, Sorrell is forced to accept exhausting and demeaning jobs to provide him with the best possibilities for a brighter future.
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Pub. Date
2011
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Elena Gorokhovas A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elena's country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English language but in the Soviet Union of...
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the final episodes, Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul bring the saga of Breaking Bad to a bloody conclusion in their roles as meth kingpin Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner Jesse Pinkman. As each tries to get clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of 'Heisenberg' gains steam, leading up to a shattering finale that will leave no one in Walt's world unscathed.