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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Meryl and Paul Morgan are a highly successful Manhattan couple. Their almost perfect lives have only one notable failure - their dissolving marriage. But they witness a murder and become the targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk them from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely, unless with their new Blackberry-free lives, the Morgans...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"Home sweet pineapple": SpongeBob's house is destroyed. "Band geeks": Squidward impresses his rival, Squilliam by performing at a show. "Sandy, SpongeBob and the Worm": Someone needs to stop a giant worm before it eats Bikini Bottom. "Ripped pants": SpongeBob takes a joke too far. "Sandy's rocket": SpongeBob and Patrick launch Sandy's rocket. "Culture shock": The Krusty Krab is holding it's first-ever talent show. "MuscleBob BuffPants": SpongeBob...
383) Elmo's world: Pets
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Learn about responsibility and how to care for the family dog, cat, and even Elmo's fish, Dorothy! Find out about feeding, bathing, and taking your pet to the doctor. Come along with Elmo as he learns about dogs with jobs, like seeing eye dogs.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a lovable canine who joins a traveling carnival when he mistakenly believes that he has become a burden to his human family. As he seeks his fortune in food, Clifford helps his new animal buddies overcome their fears, saves the carnival from going bust, and eventually finds his way back home again to his real family.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"...The Color of Law is a groundbreaking investigation into how U.S. governments in the twentieth century deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide....Richard Rothstein has painstakingly documented how our cities--from San Francisco to Boston--became so divided. Rothstein describes how federal, state, and local governments systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning, public housing...
388) District 9 (Blu-ray)
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
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The story of Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland, taking care of his beloved mother Agnes. Agnes is a proud, beautiful woman who turns herself out like her idol Elizabeth Taylor, but she is an alcoholic, and spends most of the family's weekly benefits money on alcohol. Shuggie is meanwhile doing all he can to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"Home sweet pineapple": SpongeBob's house is destroyed. "Band geeks": Squidward impresses his rival, Squilliam by performing at a show. "Sandy, SpongeBob and the Worm": Someone needs to stop a giant worm before it eats Bikini Bottom. "Ripped pants": SpongeBob takes a joke too far. "Sandy's rocket": SpongeBob and Patrick launch Sandy's rocket. "Culture shock": The Krusty Krab is holding it's first-ever talent show. "MuscleBob BuffPants": SpongeBob...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps in the jungle. Will the jungle creatures ever get the story straight? A story, a story: Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyanme, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider Man, wanted them, and caught three sly creatures to get them. Who's in Rabbit's house?: Rabbit has a problem: someone is inside her house and won't let her...
392) Red Hook summer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn series, the film tells the story of Flik Royale, a young boy from Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook, New York. Between his grandfather's preaching and the culture shock of city life, Flik's summer appears to be a total disaster, until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter...
393) Inside the meltdown
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG, and the $700 billion bailout. DVD format.