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Pub. Date
[2002], c1994
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scott is distressed to learn that his ex-wife and her husband have informed his son, Charlie, that there is no Santa Claus. While a sullen Charlie visits his dad on Christmas Eve, a noise on the roof brings them outside. It turns out that there is a Santa after all, and Scott has just accidentally killed him. Because of "the Santa clause," Scott inherits the job of Santa. As the next year passes, Scott rapidly gains weight, grows a white beard and...
5) Plenty
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"From suicide bombings to mass shootings, the nightly news can make it seem like we live in the most violent of times. In barely a century, humanity has seen two world wars and the slaughter of millions by pitiless tyrants, not to mention civil wars, insurgencies, and terrorist attacks. But psychologist Steven Pinker argues that physical violence has been in decline for centuries, and we may be living in one of the most peaceful eras in human history....
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Peggy Cappy shows you the right exercises and yoga poses to protect your back and improve your posture. These simple but powerful exercises stretch and strengthen back muscles and can alleviate back pain caused by muscular tension.
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. In a small Ozark community the Matthews family live in the shadow of tragedy. Their only daughter had died in childbirth, after the man she loved had betrayed and deserted her. Young Matt had lived his life under the shadow of a curse; the promise to kill the man who abandoned his mother. A stranger arrives in the mountains and becomes known as "the Shepherd" because of his kindness to the people of the mountains.
11) Little John
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Family court judge Natalie Britain's well-ordered life is thrown into turmoil when her father journeys west to introduce her to the son she gave up at birth.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother, Mary Louise Wright, comes to town in search of answers.
13) The farewell
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
14) Tristan & Isolde
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videorecording (DVD) (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the fall of Rome, visionary warlord Marke seeks to unite the squabbling English tribes to form one strong nation and defeat the brutal Irish King Donnchadh. But when Lord Marke's greatest and most loyal knight, Tristan, falls in love with Isolde, a beautiful Irish woman, it threatens to destroy the fragile truce and ignite a war.
15) Someone to love
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy which centers around a movie director's puzzled search for romance and his attempt to find out why life hasn't worked out quite like anyone expected it to.
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1hr, 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Why is the Grinch such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and the Grinch's world upside down, inside out, and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.
19) Pay it forward
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young man starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale.
20) Cannery row
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
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