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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he tries to help.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history. Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Combining popular history with adventure and travel, historian Michael Wood embarks on an odyssey of discovery, following the ancient triumphal march of Alexander of Macedonia from Greece to India, to bring us the truth behind one of history's most famous and enigmatic heroes.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It's the twenty-fourth and a half century, and Earth's Galactic Protectorate has a new secret weapon: a frozen duck. After 351 years as a duck-sicle, Duck Dodgers has returned to room temperature and gotten himself a large spaceship, a crew and more responsibility than he deserves. This is a duck with lots of luck. In a startling case of ršum p̌adding, Duck has convinced the people in charge of defending Earth that he was one of the planet's leading...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and comedy veteran Judd Apatow, this scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something women in New York and their adventures in post-collegiate floundering. Over the course of Season 1's ten episodes, the four girls try to figure out what they want from life, from boys, from themselves and each other.
2087) Laserblast
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
From the seventh season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and his robot friends add their comments to the film Laserblast. In the film itself, a teenager stumbles across an abandoned alien weapon that provides him with the ultimate weapon of revenge against the bullies who have tormented him. But the weapon's power source begins to mutate his mind and body.
2088) Jack Taylor: Set 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Self-destructive, pigheaded, and overfond of the bottle, Jack Taylor ... is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory workers, a vicious vigilante group executing summary justice, and a sadistic nun dubbed "Lucifer"...
2089) Dating is murder
Author
Series
Wollie Shelley mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest police district in the East End. Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law, always fearing the Ripper is coming back for another reign of terror.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Everyone reads her scandalous Internet commentary on the lives of Manhattan's most privileged teenagers. But exactly who is Gossip Girl? No one knows, but she certainly adds spice to the lives of these fashionable prep schoolers, divulging some of their most closely guarded secrets.
2093) Sanditon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
"Sanditon's...
2096) Fleabag: Season 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. An unfiltered woman trying to heal, while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along.
2098) Grantchester: [Season 1]
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall. But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police.
2099) Antiques frame
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her initial successes with her hit reality series are jeopardized by a rival show starring her police chief boyfriend's ex, Brandy finds herself framed for murder while her kooky mom sorts through a rogue's gallery of suspects.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explore Alexandria Harbor in Egypt in search of one of the Seven Wonders of the World: A massive tower built by King Ptolemy I Soter in the third century B.C. Measuring approximately 400 feet high, the structure was originally designed as a navigational marker for shipping vessles and it eventually became a fully operational lighthouse. In the fourteenth century, after two earthquakes severely damaged the great lighthouse, its majestic remains sank...
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