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2) Persuasion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick...
Pub. Date
�2003
Language
English
Description
10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets excited about a new invention - television.
4) Camp Rock
Series
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
Mitchie Torres is a teen with an amazing voice and a driving ambition to be a pop singer. All she wants is to spend her summer at a prestigious music camp. The camp is expensive, but her mom gets a job as one of Camp Rock's cooks so that Mitchie can attend as long as she helps out in the kitchen between classes. Befriended by fellow camp member Caitlyn, but intimidated by the immensely talented Tess Tyler and her friends, Peggy and Ella, Mitchie lives...
5) Archangel
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A British professor attending a conference in Russia discovers a secret surrounding the death of Josef Stalin that Russian authorities would like to keep buried.
6) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when the lives of the woman he loves and an innocent young...
10) A father's son
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the family life of the television actor Michael Landon, including the personal challenges of divorce and the family's break-up, directed and written by his son, Michael Landon Jr.
11) Cinema verite
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The behind-the-scenes story of 'An American Family', the revolutionary 1970s PBS documentary centered around the Loud family that launched a new television genre: reality TV.
13) Pandemic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When a Los Angeles bound passenger airline reports an inexplicable death mid-flight, Dr. Kayla Martin of the Center for Disease Control is called in to evaluate the frightening possibilities. She must determine if it is the reality of the bird flu, the probability of a biological attack or worse, a new virus that can't be contained. With the clock ticking and a search for Patient Zero commencing around the globe, the virus begins to spread, the body...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Matt Singer eavesdrops on [Siskel & Ebert's] iconic balcony set, detailing their rise from making a few hundred dollars a week on local Chicago PBS to securing multimillion-dollar contracts for a syndicated series (a move that convinced a young local host named Oprah Winfrey to do the same). Their partnership was cut short when Gene Siskel passed away in February of 1999 after a battle with brain cancer that he'd kept secret from everyone outside...
15) 'Salem's Lot
Pub. Date
♭2004
Language
English
Description
A journalist returns to his hometown to research the mysterious memories that have haunted him since childhood. But soon, the closely held secrets of small-town life turn into unimaginable terror when a fearsome stranger arrives-- looking to sink his teeth into a new home.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While Jack and Elizabeths relationship has cooled following their arguments in Hamilton, Jack is hot on the trail of a counterfeiter right in Hope Valley! When he finds the culprit, a two-fisted brawl ensues as Jack apprehends the man. Seeing Jack in danger prompts Elizabeth to confront her feelings and seek him out but she inadvertently sets Rip, Jacks dog, loose at the same time. As a violent storm bears down on Hope Valley,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the days before the big New Year's Eve celebration, Hope Valley sees some unpredictable resolutions. For instance, Abigail sets out to catch whoever's been stealing from her kitchen and finds herself in charge of two orphans in the process. Elizabeth resolves to take charge of Jack's dog, Rip, in an attempt to remedy Rip's apparent jealousy of their relationship. Rosemary is determined to win a San Francisco Herald essay contest about...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Drawing over ten million viewers, NBC's highly anticipated special event received rave reviews for its production. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar album hit number one on the Billboard charts and made its way to the stage in 1971. Since then, the musical has been considered a classic and has become a staple of theatre and music organizations throughout the world.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host and begin to be killed one by one; fourteen years after her sister was executed for murdering her husband, a woman asks Hercule Poirot to find the truth; when a woman's harassment of a newly married couple turns deadly, Hercule Poirot attempts to solve the mystery.
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