David Ogden Stiers
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
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One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and, with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster.
2) Pocahontas
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A musical animated version of the life of Pocahontas, an American Indian girl who legend says saved the life of explorer and colonist John Smith.
Description
The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry,...
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Few American artists have reached a wider audience or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime than Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams had a profound impact on how Americans see the majesty or their continent and helped transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. A visionary photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique and a crusader for the environment, this portrait of Adams portrays the great artist and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes...
9) Fidel Castro
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The Cuban dictator is profiled through interviews with relatives, loyalists, and enemies in Cuba and abroad.
10) Iron Will
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A brave young man is thrust into adulthood as he and his courageous team of sled dogs embark on a grueling and treacherous cross-country marathon for a $100,000 grand prize that will save his family from financial ruin.
11) The stand-in
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Robbie Bryan plays Brian Roberts, a man with a promising law career ahead of him, a beautiful girlfriend and a loving family, risks everything to follow his dream of becoming an actor. Based on the true story of actor Robbie Bryan's endeavor to make it as an actor in Hollywood.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Pocahontas: The story of the relationships between Native Americans and the early English settlers in the Virginia colony, centered on the story of the Indian princess Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Pocahontas II: The story continues as Pocahontas sets sail for England to try to save her people from extinction
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Be our guest at the enchanted 25th Anniversary celebration, a groundbreaking star in the legacy of animation and a new addition to the The Walt Disney Signature Collection. Cast a spell on your imagination and embark on an epic adventure with Belle, our brave and independent heroine, the Beast, who has the heart and soul of a prince, the music you'll never forget and all the fun characters you love.
14) Summer of love
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A look into the hippie revolution of San Francisco during the '60s, and how the free love and music turned into a life of drug use, violence, and broken dreams.
15) Better off dead
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Sixteen-year-old Lane thinks his world is crumbling -- he's been jilted by his girlfriend for someone more popular and things at home with his wacky family aren't much better. His half-hearted attempt at suicide catches the eye of Monique, a foreign-exchange student, who is determined to cure Lane of his suicidal tendencies and win his heart too.
16) Lilo & Stitch
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
When Lilo and Nani go to the shelter to adopt a dog, they come home with an extraterrestrial fugitive.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Specially developed macro camera lenses are used to portray a year in the life of a working bee colony. Stunning images take viewers inside the innermost secrets of the hive. Sequences include the "wedding flight" of the colony's virgin queen as it mates in mid-air with a drone; the life-and-death battle between two rival queens for the colony's throne; and the defeat and death of a thieving wasp at the entrance to the hive. The film also explores...
19) The Rockefellers
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
With unprecedented access to the family and its archives, The Rockefellers explores the paradoxical lives of this fabled American dynasty. Using revealing home movies, archival footage and photographs, and interviews with eight Rockefellers, their colleagues and friends, this work paints a vivid portrait of four generations of the family.
20) Unknown world
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Lennart Nilsson's micro-photography introduces the viewer to the world of microscopic insects and microorganisms that live on and in our bodies and our homes.