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Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boothe stars as a father who searches the Amazon jungle for the son who disappeared years ago. He finds him, now a warrior in an Indian tribe.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence and bring the killers to justice. Anger over the real...
5) Mystic pizza
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen and standard.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck theatrical producer is forced to produce a sure-fire flop play in a money-making scheme, only to have it succeed and the backers demand their money.
8) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
9) The chosen
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again.
10) His Own Where
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nominated for a National Book Award in 1971, His Own Where is the story of Buddy, a fifteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning out of control. He meets Angela, whose angry parents accuse her of being "wild." When life falls apart for Buddy and his father, and when Angela is attacked at home, they take action to create their own way of staying alive in Brooklyn. In the process, the two find refuge in one another and learn that love is real and necessary....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending five years with don Juan in the early sixties, Castaneda returned to Mexico in 1968 to continue his exploration of non-ordinary reality and draw ever closer to his ultimate goal of becoming a man of knowledge. Far from Western civilization, don Juana and his world of hallucinogenic drugs offer insight and inducements toward true awakening--wisdom that Castaneda passes on in this work.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich
...14) The red pony
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hardened by years on a California ranch, young Jody Tiflin is ready to assume more adult responsibilities. His father gives him a pony--under strict instructions to manage the animal's care. But Jody soon learns that the first steps toward maturity can lead directly down the cruel path of fate.
Series
Publisher
EOne Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (273 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A continuation of director Claude Lanzmann's award-winning documentary masterpiece Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted with four women who survived the Holocaust, each finding herself improbably alive after war's end. It is presented as a two-part theatrical release.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Sami lives in Jerusalem with his wife and child, and an invitation to his brother's wedding forces him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding, with no warning or explanation, the village is put under military lockdown by Israeli soldiers and cut off from the outside world. Chaos rises overnight amongst those stuck within the walls.
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine, an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way...
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