Emily Watson
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Three children must go on a quest to find a cure to save their father by climbing over the edge of the world, using as their guides a prophecy given by an ill-reputed pseudo-historian and a map of unknown origins. Along the way, they will meet creatures of myths and legends, as well as Aaron, a peasant boy also searching for the cure. The four children learn of long forgotten secrets and ancient history that may just help them unravel the clues in...
2) Down Root
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Ned is happy to go on spring break with his foster family and friends, and to leave the stresses of college life behind, where his biggest concern in life is passing business calculus. But events are soon triggered that will turn his world upside down. Now the clock is ticking in the hunt for a forgotten artefact. And if he can't find it in time, well, he may not live to fail business calculus anyways...
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Little Women volume 3
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A year has passed and there are new additions to the March family, but there is worry all around as Beth's health and spirits flag. Amy is chosen over Jo to go on a tour of Europe. Jo flees to New York to pursue her career, but devastating news from home cuts Jo's adventure short. The family reunites upon Amy's return, which is made more joyful by unexpected news and a surprise visitor.
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Little Women volume 2
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As Marmee waits by her husband's sickbed, the March sisters must learn to cope without their parents. Together they face unrequited love, hurtful rumors, trouble at school and the toll of sickness. Meg and John Brooke's relationship develops, as do Jo's literary prospects. Jo grows anxious as the future for her and her loved ones seems fraught with challenges.
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Little Women volume 1
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Christmas, 1861. The March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy--and their mother, Marmee, prepare for Christmas without presents and without their father, a Union army chaplain away at war. The sisters strike up a friendship with their charming new neighbor, Laurie. The girls attempt to live humbly and with open hearts throughout the new year, but are faced with a series of testing events.
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The Wishbones are a happy family - but not all is perfect. Max and Fay are struggling with the pressures of growing up, while Mom and Dad have the demands of work and parenting; but their hum-drum life is about to change. Mila Starr, a monster hunter, has made it her mission to capture all spooky creatures including the Wishbone's friends King Conga, The Loch Ness Monster, and The Yeti. In order to save their friends, the Wishbone's must transform...
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The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a Vampire, a Mummy, a Werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her Monster Family together and uncover the secret of their curse......
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is an alternately funny and heartbreaking look at growing up in Ireland. Born in Brooklyn, NY, young Frank (Joe Breen) moves at an early age to Limerick, Ireland, with his parents Angela (Emily Watson) and Malachy (Robert Carlyle), who have been unable to support their family in America and are hoping for better prospects in their home country. But things hardly improve once...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
"Markus Zusak's international bestseller The Book Thief has been brought to the...
10) Some girl(s)
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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On the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship transgressions. Includes behind the scenes.
"...an astute and provocative drama..."--Screen International
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The film is based on the true story of Eugenia Ginzburg, a young Russian literature professor who spends 18 years of her life in the gulag in Siberia during Stalin's reign of terror. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camps doctor and begins to come back to life.
12) War horse
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
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2012.
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1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
13) Belle
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[Publisher not identified]
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
14) On Chesil Beach
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
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2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Epic five-part miniseries dramatizing the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear accident, as told through the stories of the brave men and women who made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspired by true events, this charming romantic comedy recounts the glorious celebration of the end of World War II in Europe; and the singular evening when Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leave the confines of Buckingham Palace to join the festivities, while giving their chaperones the slip.
17) Everest
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
18) Little women
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up." --
19) Miss Potter
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Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007.
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
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Now a major film, the book that exposed the scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants.
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's...