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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A polar bear of many words, Norm's greatest gripe is simple: there is no room for tourists in the Arctic. But when a maniacal developer threatens to build luxury condos in his own backyard, Norm does what all normal polar bears would do: he heads to New York City to stop it. With a cast of ragtag lemmings at his side, Norm takes on the Big Apple, big business, and a big identity crisis to save the day.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns presents and follows the transformation of a single struggling, impoverished Atlanta neighborhood over several years as community members apply a radical holistic revitalization program to improve the lives of every resident.
3) Queen bees
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen temporarily moves into a nearby retirement community. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying 'mean girls' the likes of which she hasn't encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics...
4) Candyman
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
5) Dream house
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will Atenton quit a high-profile job in Manhattan to relocate his wife, Libby, and their two daughters to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was once the murder scene of a mother and her children. When Will investigates, he's not sure if he's seeing ghosts or if the tragic events are somehow related to his past. The only clues come from his mysterious neighbor.
6) Tower heist
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. They hire...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meryl and Paul Morgan are a highly successful Manhattan couple. Their almost perfect lives have only one notable failure - their dissolving marriage. But they witness a murder and become the targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk them from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely, unless with their new Blackberry-free lives, the Morgans...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three piggies ask for Dora and Boots for help when they find that their house is missing bricks and the wolf is going to blow it down. Dora, Swiper and her friends will help the three piggies to save the day.
9) Panic room
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman and her daughter move into what they think is their dream house. It soon becomes a nightmare when thieves break in. They hide in the reinforced panic room only to find that what the thieves want is in there.
10) District 9
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth are marked by squalor, dysfunction, and xenophobic hostility....
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Master Class: Competition over a prestigious music class unearths a long-kept secret.
The Noble Art: A reenactment of a championship boxing match turns deadly.
Not in My Back Yard: A clash over property development leads to a string of murders.
Fit for Murder: The Barnabys' spa weekend is interrupted by a gruesome discovery.
12) Furry vengeance
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes four legs are better than two. Dan just moved his wife and son to the woods to take a new job with a supposedly eco-friendly housing development. But the fur, and Dan's temper, is sure to fly when the local critters learn of the bleak plans for their forest home and stop at nothing to halt construction.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a lovable canine who joins a traveling carnival when he mistakenly believes that he has become a burden to his human family. As he seeks his fortune in food, Clifford helps his new animal buddies overcome their fears, saves the carnival from going bust, and eventually finds his way back home again to his real family.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 342 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Gallaghers. Mom went AWOL years ago. Dad stayed home with the six children only to hit the bottle, and sometimes the kids. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by streetwise "Lip" and the actively gay, but very private, Ian.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 11 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bumpy (Jim Cummings) is a wild green guy living under the bed, gobbling up his favorite delicacy (dirty socks), rocking the night away and getting into adventures with his best buds, Squishington (Rob Paulsen), the neat-freak bathroom monster, and Molly Coddle (Gail Matthius), a comfort doll who consoles anyone in need.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Learn about responsibility and how to care for the family dog, cat, and even Elmo's fish, Dorothy! Find out about feeding, bathing, and taking your pet to the doctor. Come along with Elmo as he learns about dogs with jobs, like seeing eye dogs.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To help the war effort, a patriotic young woman rents half of her apartment to a well-to-do, retired millionaire, who decides to play cupid by renting half of his half to a high-type, clean-cut nice young man.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 60 min.) : DVD video, sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out discussion guide (7 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Discover how Vel Phillips rose to prominence as one of Wisconsin's great civil rights activists, achieving an impressive list of "firsts" as part of her legacy including the first African American judge in Wisconsin and the first woman, and African American, in the nation elected to executive office in state government."--Container.
19) Show me a hero
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 358 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
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