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2) The stranger
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 139
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through...
5) The snow day
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little rabbit enjoys having a day off from kindergarten and spending time with his mother during a snowstorm, but his father's flight home is cancelled until the snow stops falling.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
120 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the man, Santiago Nasar. As the murder is planned, no one in the town tries to stop the crime, which results in an entire society put on trial for the murder.
8) Night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
9) The republic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A translation of the famous work of political philosophy.
10) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Collector's ed., Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
13) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
14) Men in black
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., b&w, double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career.
18) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
Series
Game of Thrones volume Season 1
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the shocking developments at the end of season 5 -- including Jon Snow's bloody fate at the hands of Castle Black mutineers, Daenerys' near-demise at the fighting pits of Meereen, and Cersei's public humiliation in the streets of King's Landing -- survivors from all parts of Westeros and Essos regroup to press forward, inexorably, towards their uncertain individual fates. Familiar faces will forge new alliances to bolster their strategic chances...
20) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
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