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1) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own, including a rivalry with her overachieving sister, her own ruinous love life, and, above all, a...
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a traveling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both...
6) Hanna
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
7) The thin man
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing. Nick and Nora Charles combine screwball romance with mystery.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
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