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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Returning to the city from her wealthy employer's residence, Joyce Willecombe spots two armed men on the train. She reports them to the conductor who radios the station's police. Once at Union Station, she points out the men to Lt. William Calhoun, who discovers that the gunmen are members of a gang who have kidnapped her employer's blind daughter, and are seeking a ransom. The Chicago police, headed by inspector Donnelly, and the FBI are both called...
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Language
English
Description
They're at it again! Follow the lives of the adorable, yet mischievous animals of Liberty Farm, who can't seem to keep themselves out of trouble! After turning their farm PUP-side down, the furry friends put aside their differences and learn what it means to be a family.
7) Dino King
Author
Language
English
Description
On the Korean peninsula of 80 million years ago, the last paradise for dinosaurs, Speckles' family begins the fight for survival. "Speckles the Tarbosaurus" was the lonely emperor who was happy yet unhappy, lonely yet ever-hopeful. However, the ill-fated relationship with the Tyrannosaurus One Eye continues to make his life more difficult… Speckles begins the dangerous journey to the paradise in search for happiness for himself and his young, but...
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English
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On the alien planet Baab, admired astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero to the blue alien population. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA. When BASA's no-nonsense chief Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the brothers of an SOS from a notoriously dangerous planet, Earth, Scorch rejects Gary's warnings...
Language
English
Description
Smugglers are out to capture the world's glittering diamond market. Bond uses fast cars, hearses, jets, helicopters and moon machines in a perplexing search to find out why. Seductive smuggler Tiffany Case and millionaire recluse Willard Whyte do their best to deter Bond's efforts.
12) The lion king
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Diamond ed; [Blu-ray version].
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wait is over! For the first time ever, experience the majesty of Disney's epic animated masterpiece as it roars off the screen and into your living room. Embark on an extraordinary coming-of-age adventure as Simba, a lion cub who cannot wait to be king, searches for his destiny in the great 'Circle of Life.' Featuring pristine picture and sound and groundbreaking immersive bonus features.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Hindi
Description
"Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes reinvents the environmental documentary by portraying, in incisive yet lyrical fashion, the reciprocal influence of animals and humans. For more than a year, Sen followed New Delhi brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad as they rescued birds of prey from the increasingly destructive effects of urban pollution. While charting the siblings' daily struggles and successes, he also documented their poetic reflections...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
25th anniversary ed.
Language
English
Description
In the land of Prydain, a young boy named Taran dreams of a future as an invincible warrior, but when the magical oracular pig Hen Wen is kidnapped by the evil Horned King, he must embark on a real-life quest to find the black cauldron lest the evil Horned King unleash its power and take over the world.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of one man's fight against one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Starting more than 20 years ago, the Post Office wrongly dismissed, harassed, and prosecuted hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters for theft, fraud, and false accounting. Sub Postmasters were told they were the only ones to report a problem with a new computer system called Horizon. When Alan Bates was fired, he refused to accept...
17) The fragile King
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic death of his mother in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Michael King is sent to live with his grandfather Gerald, whom he hardly knows. The emotional gulf between the traumatized boy and cantankerous old man is immense, but during a roadtrip across South Africa's Northern Cape to reunite Michael with his estranged father, a relationship of understanding and trust slowly emerges. After going their separate ways, the two reunite a...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After fifteen years in a mental asylum, Hilary Fairfield has suddenly regained his sanity, escaped from the institution and come home. But a few things have changed in his absence. For one, his strong-willed daughter Sydney has grown up and is planning to marry. For another, his wife has divorced him and is planning to re-marry. It2s enough to drive a man crazy, or a woman, for that matter.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Texas 1935. It's a time of boomtowns or bust for oil wildcatters and, time and again, derby-topped Mr. Cox has come out flat busted. No worries. Mr. Cox has a mule-headed optimism. He's sure as the sunrise that near the town of Henrietta on a cotton farm that raises more dust than bolls, there's black gold beneath the barren sod.
20) October sky
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
True story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950's who dreams of building rockets.
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