Meryl Streep
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A holiday favorite for children of all ages, The Night Before Christmas comes alive in the joyous performance by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep and several outstanding musicians in this illustrated book and compact disc edition.
Meryl Streep lends her incredibly talented voice to Clement C. Moore's timeless poem of St. Nick's arrival on Christmas Eve. The characters come to life through the artistry of her performance, enhanced by the spirited...
Meryl Streep lends her incredibly talented voice to Clement C. Moore's timeless poem of St. Nick's arrival on Christmas Eve. The characters come to life through the artistry of her performance, enhanced by the spirited...
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English
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
3) Heartburn
Author
Language
English
Description
A 40th anniversary reissue of the national bestselling author's hilarious first novel that memorably mixed food, heartbreak, and revenge into a comic masterpiece—now with a new foreword by Stanley Tucci. • "Touching and funny.... Proof that writing well is the best revenge." —Chicago Tribune
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is...
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is...
4) BIG TREE
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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The fate of all life on Earth may depend on the bravery of two little seeds in this epic adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling creator and Caldecott Medalist of The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
"The tale of the natural world is the greatest story we have to tell, and Brian delivers a brilliant chapter of that tale throughout the pages of Big Tree." - STEVEN SPIELBERG
"We need brave,
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Mr. and Mrs. Fox have a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash and visiting nephew Kristofferson until Mr. Fox decides to plan a heist of three local farms to steal all their chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
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Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
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Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Three stories converge when a professor and an apathetic student discuss the nature of activism, a Republican senator tries to sell a journalist on the government's new miltary strategy, and two of the professor's former students fighting in Iraq find themselves trapped behind enemy lines.
11) It's complicated
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hilarious look at marriage, divorce and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakeshop, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the second time around? It's...complicated!
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
By the time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, wornout, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real. When he turns to the skin horse for help, he begins to understand that one becomes a real person through human relationships that are loving, positive experiences. Animated.
14) The Post
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Determined to uphold the nation's civil liberties, Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. However, the two must risk their careers and their freedom to bring truth to light.
16) The Iron Lady
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dramatized profile of Great Britain's controversial prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
17) Doubt
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young nun suspects inappropriate behavior between a priest and the school's only black student, a Catholic school principal sets out to prove the clergyman's guilt.
18) To the arctic
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
To The Arctic takes you on a never before seen journey through the power of the IMAX lens into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
"...a fair share of aww moments from playful to plaintive, offering lessons in eco-consciousness."--Hollywood Reporter.
"...kudos to the cinematic expertise that captures them (polar bears), especially underwater."--New York...
19) The deer hunter
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.