Michael York
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An illustrated, abridged version of C.S. Lewis's classic in which four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society-and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion : an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank...
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Various famous and not so famous individuals state the effect that Shakespeare's works have had in their lives. A main video presentation accompanied by seventeen vignettes.
5) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1931 an egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate cabaret in Berlin.
Publisher
DIC Entertainment Corporation
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 19 hrs. 15 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in late 18th-century America, this program unfurls historical vignettes through the eyes of two teenage apprentices, Sarah Phillips and James Hiller, who experience the people, events and tough choices of the American revolution. While working in Benjamin Franklin's print shop, the kids discover first-hand the founding principles of democracy, including freedom of the press and equal protection under the law. Each episode includes thought-provoking...