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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Night of the meek: Christmas in the twilight zone...Art Carney is a forlorn department store Santa who takes to drinking - only to find himself experiencing the nicest Christmas ever! -- The Invaders: A flying saucer lands in the attic of an isolated house inhabited by an impoverished woman - who soon becomes panic-stricken as tiny spacemen begin to stalk her! -- Nothing in the dark: An old woman has fought with death a thousand times and has always...
Pub. Date
1951.
Description
Alice is a bored schoolgirl who yearns for a more exciting life. Things get "curiouser and curiouser" after she follows the frantic White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and has a series of surreal misadventures in the madcap world of Wonderland, where "nothing's impossible." In Wonderland, Alice meets extraordinary characters such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Formats
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
85) Rambo
Series
Rambo volume 4
Description
Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo accepts the offer and takes the missionaries up the river. When...
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
During the summer of 1978, two couples decide to go to a remote vaction house in the north of Spain. Hidden away in the middle of a forest, and very much off the beaten track, the house seems ideal for some peaceful holidays. While out hunting, the two men come across an abandoned house and discover a deformed, animalistic girl chained inside. They bring her back to the house, intending to take her to the authorities. Tension mounts with the locals...
Series
Guardians of the galaxy films volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
91) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Formats
Description
Nim Rusoe lives on a deserted island with her scientist father, Jack, and her best friends : Selkie, a sea lion ; Fred, a bearded dragon lizard ; and Galileo, a plucky pelican. When the island is 'invaded', Nim reaches out to the author of her favorite books.
92) The favourite
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Early 18th century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health and bad temper. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their growing friendship gives her a chance to fulfil...
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In season four, Walt and Skyler try to use gambling to explain how Walt has made all of his money; Skyler tries to launder money through a car wash; Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview; and much more.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Season Two contains worlds (and alternative worlds) of excitement complete with shape-shifters, cryonic heads, belly-dwelling beasts, and people who turn to ashes before our eyes. But the overarching narrative takes three clandestine FBI agents, Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop, and Walter Bishop, through a mind-bending investigation of a parallel reality that threatens to destroy ours.
95) Wolves
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Looks at the world of wolves by plane, helicopter, on foot and through time, and why wolf reintroduction is making news in the American West and setting a precedent around the world.
96) Peter Pan
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Three London children travel to Never Land for adventures with Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up.
97) The break-up
Description
Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. Neither one is willing to move out of the condo they once shared. Taking the advice of their respective friends and confidants, including a few complete strangers, they both engage in mental warfare designed to force the other person to flee the premises. But they might just realize that they are fighting to keep their relationship alive.
98) Backdraft
Pub. Date
c1998, 1991
Description
Stephen McCaffrey and his younger brother Brian are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Stephen is so relentless that he drives Brian out of firefighting and into arson investigation. Assisting arson investigator Donald Rimgale, Brian becomes involved in a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled...
Series
James Bond volume 21
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world.
100) Inside man
Pub. Date
2006.
Appears on list
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...