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Author
Language
English
Description
"The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department believe it was just a simple accident: faulty wiring in a century-old building. But Boston firefighter Jack McGee, who lost his best friend in the blaze,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Santa Elena in 1985 is a sleepy, sedate town-that is, until unusual crimes start to occur. The body of a dog is left outside a Vietnamese grocery store. An encampment of Mexican strawberry pickers is brutally attacked with mysterious weapons. A wealthy real estate developer is found dead inside the pool of his beach-side house. When rat poison and other clues are found across these crime scenes, Detective Ben Wade and forensic expert Natasha Betencourt...
3) Brave
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.
4) Mary Poppins
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1964
Edition
Widescreen format; 40th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a fortieth anniversary edition of the musical adventure in which Mary Poppins, a slightly magical English nanny, takes over the household of a London banker, and changes the lives of the children and their parents.
5) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
6) Elf-Man
Language
English
Description
An Elf is left behind by Santa to help rescue the Harper family from a lousy Christmas. The Elf and the family get more than they bargained for, as the kids help the Elf discover his special powers and true identity as a budding superhero.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1984
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents three stories about friendship, including the title work in which a toy bear in a department store finds his heart's desire when he is purchased by a little girl.
Language
English
Description
Late on Christmas Eve night, a boy who doubts the existence of Santa Claus lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. When he hears a steam engine's roar and whistle outside his window, the conductor invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives a gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A schoolgirl named Shizuku, who longs to discover her true talents, meets the mysterious Seiji, a boy who is determined to follow his dreams, and The Baron, a magical cat who helps her listen to the whispers in her heart.
10) The Lorax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks for the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax? Includes an all-new featurette and two special features: Pontoffel Pock & His Magical Piano and Butter Battle Book.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Edition
Collector's ed.; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Grinch tries to ruin Christmas for the Whos in Whoville, but when he is outsmarted by little Cindy Lou Who, he comes to see the true meaning of Christmas.
12) Labyrinth
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl's baby brother is kidnapped by the King of the Goblins; in order to rescue him she must navigate a devilish labyrinth.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction.
15) Cinderella
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
16) The hunger games
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?], c1999
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Homer, a never-adopted-orphan who grows to young adulthood under the care of Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and orphanage director in rural Maine in the early twentieth century, sets out to find his place in the world.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1954
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Nemo and the crew of the futuristic submarine Nautilus explore the dangers of the underwater world.
19) Monster trucks
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp, a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
20) Shrek the third
Language
English
Description
While reluctantly reigning over Far, Far Away, the ogre Shrek sets out to find the heir who is next in line, leaving the kingdom vulnerable to an attack of fairy tale villains led by Prince Charming.
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