Justin Chadwick
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A heartwarming and inspiring true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
3) Tulip fever
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
4) Bleak house
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 465 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
6) Stolen
Author
Description
A fast-paced thriller about child trafficking in Britain today. Anthony Carter is a detective inspector battling to make a difference to the plight of exploited children smuggled into the UK. When Anthony encounters Rosemary, a terrified 10-year-old girl from West Africa, sold as a house slave, who thought she was coming to England to be educated, he vows to keep her safe from the traffickers, but in doing so, Anthony risks his own and his child's...