Michael Sheen
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English
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
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English
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A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The picture of Dorian Gray was a...
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Series
Book of dust volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy.... Malcolm's parents run an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new:...
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
633 pages : color illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue’s youth are long behind her—or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia’s College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past.
The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries,...
6) The Queen
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005, [2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" - Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways the...
7) Staged
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tragic story of Raskolnikov-a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder. Surprised by his sense of guilt and terrified of the consequences of his actions, Raskolnikov wanders through the slums of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg trying to escape the ever-suspicious Porfiry, the official investigating...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
2018 Odyssey Honor
2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Recording
The Washington Post Best Audiobook of 2017
Slate Best Audiobook of 2017
Booklist Editor’s Choice Audio for Youth
AudioFile Best YA Audiobooks of 2017
"Too few things in our world are worth a seventeen year wait: The Book of Dust is one of...
2018 Odyssey Honor
2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Recording
The Washington Post Best Audiobook of 2017
Slate Best Audiobook of 2017
Booklist Editor’s Choice Audio for Youth
AudioFile Best YA Audiobooks of 2017
"Too few things in our world are worth a seventeen year wait: The Book of Dust is one of...
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Return to the world of His Dark Materials—now an HBO original series starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—in the second volume of Philip Pullman’s new bestselling masterwork The Book of Dust.
The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue’s youth are long behind her—or...
Return to the world of His Dark Materials—now an HBO original series starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—in the second volume of Philip Pullman’s new bestselling masterwork The Book of Dust.
The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue’s youth are long behind her—or...
11) Music within
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Deafened by a bomb blast in Vietnam, Richard returns home and discovers his life's calling: helping others with disabilities, including his fellow veterans. Along with his best friend Art, a wheelchair-bound rebel with a wicked wit, Richard fights for the rights of those whose voices can't always be heard. Based on the incredible true-life story of Richard Pimentel.
12) Resistance
Publisher
Film Movement Exclusives
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This World War II drama stars Michael Sheen (*Frost/Nixon, Masters of Sex*), and features two *Game of Thrones* stars, Iwan Rheon and Tom Wlaschiha. In 1944, the D-Day for the invasion of Normandy by the Allies has failed and Europe has not been released from the German forces. The men of an isolated Welsh village disappear and their wives believe that they have joined the resistance and soon German soldiers arrive at the village. The farmer Sarah...
13) The Idiot
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This nineteenth-century Russian classic investigates the path of a character held to the highest ideals those of true Christian love. Prince Myshkin, returning to Russia after being treated for severe epilepsy, discovers that he does not truly fit into a society obsessed with wealth, political power, and greed. As Myshkin attempts to integrate himself into the lives of those around him, he finds that this path might lead him to one of his own demises....
15) Passengers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind...
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"What would you do if you met a fairy? Witness the historic moment when Tinker Bell first meets a human being-- and it's not who you think!"--Container.
17) Home again
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Recently separated from her husband, Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guest house temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing...
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E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A ten year-old boy-genius, who was artificially conceived inside a Petri-dish, embarks on a search for his biological father with his single mom and a Post-it notes-obsessed university professor.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice, now nineteen years old, returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
20) Good omens
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 326 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?