Elliott Gould
4) Switchmas
Author
Description
A Christmas obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, WA.
5) Frog
Author
Description
When Arlo, a young scientist and reptilian fanatic, introduces Suzie to his reptile world in preparation for their high school's science fair, she learns that trusting only what you can see will not take you as far as following your heart.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (388 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Agatha Christie's astute Belgian detective is on the case in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Beautifully remastered, these definitive adaptations capture the unrivalled elegance of the Art Deco era.
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
9) Ruby Sparks
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Struggling with writer's block and a lackluster love life, once-famous novelist Calvin creates a beautiful fictitious character named Ruby who inspires him. But not only does this bring his work to life, it also brings Ruby to life, literally. Face-to-face with an actual relationship with his once virtual girlfriend, Calvin must now decide whether to pen this love story or let it write itself.
10) Humor me
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A once-acclaimed New York playwright, Nate is struggling to finish a play when his wife leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, Bob, in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical and agrees to help, but quickly realizes it will not be easy to get these quirky women to cooperate.
11) The automat
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Founded by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888, it revolutionized the nation's restaurant scene with technology that captured the public's imagination like nothing else the customer put nickels into slots, and little windows opened to reveal the customer's pick, be...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
13) Ocean's eleven
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
14) Capricorn One
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An investigative reporter gets wind that something is amiss...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
16) Ocean's thirteen
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to finding amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Banks and what he's done to a friend. Uniting...
17) The Muppet movie
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a fine day not so long ago, Kermit the Frog was playing and singing in the swamp. A lost Hollywood talent agent hears him, and tells him he has talent. Therefore, Kermit sets out for Hollywood to find fame and fortune. Along the way Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, the Electric Mayhem band, and the romantically inclined Miss Piggy join him. Fast food magnate Doc Hopper--who is determined to enlist Kermit as spokes-frog for his southern fried frog-leg restaurants--also...
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 1
Description
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome...
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 2
Description
Philip Marlowe navigates the underworld of the Los Angeles gambling circuit while investigating the disappearance of a beautiful nightclub girl. Written at the height of the author's creative career, this novel, with its crooked cops, ex-cons and deadly, seductive women, is a masterpiece of the genre Chandler is credited with creating. Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring his archetypal private eye.
20) Red Cat
Author
Series
John March novels volume 3
Description
With a troubled past and a job that attracts too much attention from the law, private investigator John March has always been the black sheep of his merchant banking family-which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older brother. David March has been having affairs with anonymous women he meets on the internet, and now one of these women is stalking him. David knows her only as Wren. She, however, knows everything...