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9341) Classic drama collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her matchmaking creates problems for herself and others; a passionate young woman takes a job at Thornfield, an old house with a moody master and a demented third-floor tenant; a pair of half sisters get caught up in a conspiracy involving a mentally ill woman dressed in white; a drifter and a woman who has been accused of witchcraft are thrown together...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
The FBI story: The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies.
The Stratton story: The true story of Chicago White Sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating...
9343) Chocolat, volume 1
Author
Series
Chocolat (Ji-Sang Shin) volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Follows the misadventures of Keum-Ji as she schemes to get close to her idols in the popular boy band "DDL."
9344) 8 movie action pack
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Description
Trancers I: Angel City, 2245. Trooper Jack Deth is battling the last disciples of Whistler, who used his powers to entrance and control his army. When Deth discovers Whistler has time traveled to 1985 and is killing the ancestors of his enemies, he launches a deadly mission to stop a notorious murderer.
Equilibrium: Mankind has outlawed the things that trigger emotion, and to uphold the law, a special breed of police is assigned to eliminate all...
9345) Mad men: Season one
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Set in 1960 New York, this series reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art of the sell while their private world gets sold. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper, the biggest ad man, and ladies' man, in the business.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Jack is a NYC advertising exec with a life as glossy as the ad he spins. Free-spirited Jill is new to the city, with nothing to stand on but her fiery personality and romantic ideals. Opposites attract, and together they author their own manifesto of "rules to live by." But their story takes a turn when the truth about Jill surfaces and their number one rule "Be honest" is violated.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A playboy and an interior decorator develop a dislike for each other when they share a party line, until he sees her for the first time and begins to romance her with a different identity; rivals from competing advertising agencies try to win the same client; a happily married hypochondriac thinks he is dying and tries to find a suitable new spouse for his unsuspecting wife; when housewife Beverly Boyer suddenly becomes famous as the spokesperson...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
9350) Definitely, Maybe
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Will Hayes is a 30-something Manhattan dad who is in the midst of a divorce. His 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins years earlier when, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician, he moves to New York in order to work on the Clinton campaign. Will attempts a "PG" version of his romantic relationships...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The mystery and excitement reach unimaginable heights in this spectacular third season. Special Agent Sydney Bristow awakens to an all-new world of intrigue from the very first moment of episode one, and her life is turned upside down as the action accelerates through the season's final frame. DVD format.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A Navy lieutenant falls in love with a saloon singer; follows the rise and fall of an executive in the Pittsburgh steel industry; a marine salvager is prosecuted after allegedly sinking a steamship, causing the death of a young woman; Mongolian warlord Temujin is crowned Genghis Khan; a young man in the Missouri hills vows revenge on his father; in 1890s Alaska, a miner and his partners fight to save their claim from a crooked town official; a fighter...
9355) I remember Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and betrayed; his friend, who helplessly loses his wife to a hero;...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Rear window: "A photographer ... becomes obsessed with watching his neighbors and discovers a possible murder"--Set container.
Vertigo: "[A] dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder involving an acrophobic detective and a mysterious blonde"--Set container.
North by northwest: "[An] adman ... gets plunged into a realm of spy and counterspy and is abducted, framed for murder, chased and crop-dusted"--Set container.
Psycho: "[An] unsuspecting...
9358) Red Hook summer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn series, the film tells the story of Flik Royale, a young boy from Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook, New York. Between his grandfather's preaching and the culture shock of city life, Flik's summer appears to be a total disaster, until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter...
9359) Sense & sensibility
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...
9360) Downton Abbey: a new era
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
The follow-up to the 2019 feature film in which the Crawley family and Downton staff received a royal visit from the King and Queen of Great Britain.