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Description
In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action air rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale Santa-begging campaign. He encounters a slew of calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.
3) Wall-E
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Story of a garbage-collecting robot that has been left behind to clean up the planet's mess. When a sleek search robot named EVE arrives to search for signs of life, Wall-E suddenly finds a new purpose in life. A determined Wall-E sets out to protect his new love, leading him on a fantastic journey across the universe.
Formats
Description
Late on Christmas Eve night, a boy who doubts the existence of Santa Claus lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. When he hears a steam engine's roar and whistle outside his window, the conductor invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives a gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.
9) Hoot
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
The new kid in town teams up with two middle-school classmates to help protect an endangered species of miniature owls threatened by new construction.
10) The hate U give
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/Spanish/French version]
Description
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
Series
Pub. Date
c1954
Edition
Collector's ed. ; widescreen.
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
14) Pale rider
Series
Pub. Date
2000, c1985
Description
Corporate mining boss Coy LaHood offers the independent pan miners a deal: get out or be carried out. The terrorized miners have little choice but to accept until a nameless stranger rides into their camp. The miners call him "Preacher." But to LaHood, he's an avenging pale rider and hell follows with him.
15) Yellow submarine
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Animated feature with the Beatles trying to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies.
16) The parent trap
Pub. Date
2005, c1998
Edition
Widescreen format; special double trouble ed.
Description
Identical twins Hallie and Annie were separated at birth when their parents divorced. After they meet for the first time at summer camp, they cook up a plot to reunite their parents.
17) The Lorax
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks for the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax? Includes an all-new featurette and two special features: Pontoffel Pock & His Magical Piano and Butter Battle Book.
18) The hunger games
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
Description
Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
20) The fisher King
Description
A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
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