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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 85 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Heartwarming story of Duffy, an adorable cat that brings two families together. Sometimes it takes a little help from a special cat to get people back on course. In this case, Duffy sets about to help two families enjoy each others' gifts.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 484 min.): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life in pieces follows one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious, and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by the family's various members. Adoring matriarch, Joan (Dianne Wiest), would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with them. Gregarious patriarch, John (James Brolin), is searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. Together with their three adult children, Greg (Colin Hanks), Matt (Thomas...
4) The Whale
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 802 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In season four, the shows explosive twists and turns resume, as Empire Entertainment embarks on a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Lucious makes his first public appearance after the explosion in Las Vegas, and all members of the Lyon family have their own interests in Lucious regaining his physical and mental faculties.
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is the perfect season for Clark Griswold and his family. Clark's a disaster waiting to happen. You have to see it to believe it. There are 25,000 lights on the Griswold rooftop. An exploding turkey. And a house full of relatives.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Molly is nine-years-old, and lives and breathes the river. Since her mother died, her grandfather has become ill, and her father cannot keep up with the medical bills. The only choice is to sell everything and move. But Molly can't leave her friends, and the river. She needs a plan! Her mother used to tell tales of a lost treasure hidden on the banks of the river. It's up to Molly and her friends, the 'lil river rats, ' to journey into the unknown,...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Even though Sarah and Pete are estranged, she invites him back to their suburban home for the holidays on the condition that he reconcile with their daughters before she will agree to finalize a trial separation with divorce. Includes bonus features.
9) Overboard
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is the macho 'everyman' who challenges his gorgeous and feisty wife, Cheryl, with his stubborn manliness but contagious charm. Tagging along with this duo of happily married opposites are their three precocious kids.
12) 1985
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian (Cory Michael Smith, “Gotham”) returns to his Texas hometown for the holidays during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. Burdened with an unspeakable tragedy in New York City, Adrian looks to reconnect with his preteen brother Andrew (Aidan Langford) while navigating his relationship with religious parents Eileen (Academy Award Nominee Virginia Madsen) and Dale (Golden Globe...
13) Carbon copy
Series
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an uptight executive discovers he has a long-lost black son, his tidy world goes hopelessly and hilariously awry in this wickedly funny comedy.
14) Uncle Buck
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
15) The mimic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
The Jangsan Tiger, who mimics human voices to lure them close, encounters a family affected by the creature.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about Tony Manetta, a small-time Miami Beach hotel operator barely able to make the payments on his own modest inn, who dreams of one day opening a million dollar resort. In addition to bill collectors, Tony must contend with his beatnik girlfriend and his well-meaning but conservative brother and sister-in-law. Through thick and thin, however, one thing remains constant: the love between Tony and his young son who admires him even if he isn't...
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered daughter, Andrea, is betraying her husband Chris...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
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