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Amgash novels volume 1
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...
3) Amerigeddon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dire warning of a wake up call of what might be our future when a globalist terrorist organization aligned with the United Nations disables the United States power grid and institutes Martial Law. It will take a dedicated family of patriots armed with strong survival skills and the remains of the Second Amendment to save America and reclaim its freedom.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's two weddings and somebody's funeral when a pair of just-married couples discovers that both parties have booked the same reception hall on the same day at the same time. In this delightful screwball comedy, the bride and the groom are falling in love. Which is great, except that they've just tied the knot with someone else.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a decade abroad, Jean learns of his father's failing health and returns to run the family vineyard with his strong-willed sister, Juliette, and his responsible younger brother, Jeremie. As four seasons and two harvests go by in picturesque Burgundy, the siblings have to reinvent their relationship and learn to trust each other in this tender and finely-textured saga.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When famed frontier lawman and Montana's first elected senator Eddie Johnson is brutally murdered, his longtime sidekick and friend, Lefty Brown, will stop at nothing to avenge his death, in an ode to the traditional revenge western set in the vast, desolate plains of Montana.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
8) Ma
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sue Ann, a loner in her quiet Ohio town, is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends. Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting younger friends. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home as long as they abide by the house rules. Her hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, and what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare....
10) Bel canto
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvey brain of Stephane, an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. Unable to find the secret to his neighbor's heart while awake, he searches for the answer in his dreams.
12) Moonfall
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romantic fantasy set in early 20th century Mexico about a young couple, Tita and Pedro, blocked from marrying by a family tradition strictly enforced by Tita's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, while Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
15) Tár
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
16) 3022
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Halfway through a ten-year mission, a group of astronauts becomes unstable, overcome by the isolation of deep space. While they prepare to return home, Earth is hit by a catastrophic event. The haunting emptiness of space becomes the least of their concerns as they fight to survive against unforeseen threats.
17) The nest
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple has to...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the "barbarians" and the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
19) Evergreen
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Living in a leaking shack on the edge of town with her mother and grandmother, fourteen-year-old Henrietta wants everything she doesn't have. After meeting Chat Turly, she believes his wealthy family is ideal, and tries desparately to become part of their family. When she can no longer ignore the severe flaws in Chat's home life, Henrietta comes to appreciate what she does have.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...
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