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It's two days before Christmas and the Toyland Toy Factory has just received its biggest order ever, but someone wants to shut down the factory and spoil the holiday for everyone. Can Tom Tailor, Mary Lamb, Humpty Dumpty and the rest of Toyland stop the evil plot and save Christmas?
4) First Knight
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This is a new vision of King Arthur's Camelot. A vision of breathtaking battles, heart-pounding courage, of the undeniable love that brought an entire kingdom to its knees ... and the undying passion that made it live forever.
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Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that Memnon was...
7) De-Lovely
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An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife, Linda Lee Porter, who was...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Takes a look at 12 of the biggest breakthroughs in video technology. From the video camera tube and video recording machine to VCR's, camcorders and streaming video, the book features historic photos, engaging sidebars, and covers the impact of each breakthrough." -- Amazon.com website.
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Her legs are waxed, her lips are glossed, her gun is ready. FBI agent Gracie Hart is going undercover as one of the hopefuls to be the next Miss United States. But Gracie, whose idea of a fashion accessory is the set of handcuffs she slaps onto lawbreakers, doesn't have a beauty pageant bone in her body.
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Christmas is shaping up to be wonderful for all the pooches at the Flea Bite Cafe. But the festivities and good will don't mean anything to Carface, a big bully of a bulldog who doesn't like Christmas-- in fact he hates it so he's come up with a plan to ruin it for everybody! But Charlie and Itchy step in and with a litle divine intervention come up with a plan to save Christmas and transform Carface from a holiday humbug to a yuletide hero.
13) Gremlins
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Young Billy Peltzer is given a cuddly new pet for Christmas. But when Billy slips up on following the rules of taking care of it, his hometown is in for a bizarre Christmas Eve when a pack of devilish, mischief-making Gremlins is set loose.
15) Dr. Dolittle 2
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Pub. Date
c2001
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Superstar Eddie Murphy is back as Dolittle, the beloved doctor with the up-ROAR-ious critter communicating talents. This time around Dolittle plays Cupid to a bumbling circus bear to help a group of forest creatures save their habitat. With the aid of his mangy, madcap animal friends, Dolittle must teach this overgrown teddy the ways of true romance in time to save his species and his home.
Pub. Date
c1979
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Scooby-Doo wants to be a serious actor, and with Shaggy as his manager, anything's possible. But while Scooby is off becoming famous, the rest of the gang doesn't know what to do without him, as they reminisce about the first day they met Scooby-Doo and how much he means to them.
18) Spy Kids
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Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents: masters of disguise, mavens of invention, able to stop wars before they could start. They worked for different countries until they were assigned to kill each other. They fell in love instead, and embarked on the most dangerous mission they had ever faced: raising a family. Nine years later, the disappearances...
19) Sleeping beauty
Pub. Date
2003,1959
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When an enchanted kingdom and the most fair princess in the land falls prey to the ultimate mistress of evil, the fate of the empire rests in the hands of three small fairies and a courageous prince's magic kiss.