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Pub. Date
2013
Description
"A refuge...a community...an idea...Vermont evokes images of bucolic farms, maple leaves and rural isolation. But beneath the surface of the state's unique story are labor and racial struggles, eugenics experiments, and spirited debates over land use, energy and gay marriage." -- From container
Pub. Date
1994
Description
A look at Vermont's past through old film clips and still photos and interviews with Vermonters. Includes steam trains, summer camps and grand resort hotels, Burlington in the 1920's, early politicians, prohibition, and skiing legends, as well as the 1930's tourism film, "Seeing Vermont with Dot and Glen."
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
11) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Collector's ed., widescreen.
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Widescreen version
Description
A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Join sisters Chantelle and Nakia as they travel to Japan and spend three months discovering the culture, food and customs, while making many new friends along the way. From trips to the market to a day in preschool, squat toilets to eating snails, their days are full of adventure. They meet monkeys and ninjas, dress up in kimono, and even take a Taiko drum class. Come discover Japan through the eyes of two young girls and be inspired to become a Little...
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
16) Little women
Series
Pub. Date
2000, c1994
Edition
Widescreen format.
Description
Four sisters living with their mother in New England during the Civil War without the guidance of their father, who is away serving with the Union army, learn about life and love as they grow up.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
18) Les misérables
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Appears on list
Description
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
"Victor Hugo's grim, but redemptive, classic novel is given resplendent...
19) Frontier House
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Letterbox ed.
Description
Three modern families were chosen to learn to survive as if the year is 1883. Using the tools and technology of that time they must make difficult choices and cope with the consequences in the Montana wilderness.
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