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Publisher
LeapFrog
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Deep inside the Storybook Factory, where pictures, words, and imagination bring stories to life, Tad, Lily, Casey, and Dot decide to put a few new twists on a classic tale. The result is a fun-filled adventure that turns reading into a delightful game! Special features include sing-along songs to help little ones learn, complete with a string of read-along words that run across the screen.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
With the help of their new recruits -- including Beast, Angel, Juggernaut, and Colossus -- the X-Men must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. A potential cure is discovered and processed to treat and ultimately eliminate the genetic mutations, once and for all....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This film is the first of its kind with a compelling look at the company that created the modern superhero, produced with unprecedented access to the archives of Warner Bros. and DC Comics. It explores 75 years of DC Comics, the memorable characters of its universe, and the talented artists and writers who brought them to life.
4) Crumb
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.
Series
Publisher
Sesame Street Workshop
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Are you up for a challenge? An Alphabet Challenge? In this all new never before seen DVD, join Sesame Street friends Elmo, Abby and Telly on an amazing learning adventure! Abby is excited to show her friends her new Fairy Fly Pad, a magical tablet loaded with cool games. But with a simple tap they accidentally get trapped inside the video game world of A.B. C-more, a mischievous elf obsessed with the alphabet.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
What, exactly, is religion? Why does one religious tradition often differ so markedly from another? Why--despite their common source--are the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so different? What kinds of factors separate the beliefs of a Hindu or Buddhist from the 'people of the book' and from other sects of Hindus or Buddhists? Religion affects everyone's life, whether directly or indirectly, and as religious issues become more...
7) Goosebumps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah, living right next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine...
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jestro, the Book and their monsters are still on the loose, causing havoc all over the kingdom. No place is safe. In their relentless search for the lost magical Books, they are growing ever powerful and it will only be a matter of time before they can conquer the entire kingdom. The NEXO Knights are now an efficient monster-fighting unit, but even so, they have to upgrade their equipment and NEXO powers to keep up with the ever-growing threat.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
Publisher
Arlington County Library, Channel 31
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Arlington Public Library Director, Charles Brown interviews four guests: author, Barbara Anne Porter discussing her books, a book talk from local children's libararian Kay Britto, Head of the Central Library's Children's Room, Kristi Beavin, and a puppet story hour performed by local Children's Librarian, Diane Marton.
Publisher
Arlington County Library, Channel 31
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Arlington Public Library director Jayne McQuaid interviews local publishers, Caroline Jackson, founder and president of Belvedere Press. Jackson discusses the life cycle of a book during publication. Jackson discusses her publishing company's speciality, Charles Dickens. Jayne McQuaid the interviews two librarians, Hanne Berg and Andrea Cincotta, about the life cycle of a book.
14) The book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Publisher
Arlington County Library, Channel 31
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Special program featuring two guests discussing the importance of reading to children, child literacy and children reading for pleasure. In between interviews, an advertisement for the children's comic, McGruff is shown. Th second guest discusses how Arlington's Friends of the Public Library organization has supported child literacy and funding library programs for children; includes PSA about promoting drug-free schools in Arlington County.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that nothing is permanent--all is change--has made it an astonishingly...
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Description
Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history...
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