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"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a thrilling and iconic collection of detective stories featuring the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. John Watson. This collection brings together some of Holmes' most famous cases, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Red-Headed League."
Conan Doyle's writing captivates readers with its masterful storytelling, intricate...
2) Little women
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...
4) Cliffhanger
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Rocky Mountain rescue workers discover a distress call to locate five climbers is really a trap set by a merciless international terrorist, and millions of dollars and their own lives hang in the balance.
5) The others
Series
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
A devoutly religious mother of two ailing children has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly arrived family of eccentric servants to be responsible, but chilling...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.
8) The crow
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Exactly one year after a young rock guitarist and his fiancée are brutally murdered by a ruthless gang of criminals, he returns, watched over by a hypnotic crow, to seek revenge.
9) Everest
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Description
Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, Everest documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help the surviving members of the ill-fated group. The international team of climbers scale the world's tallest peak in this daring adventure of triumph and tragedy. Special features include "Making of Everest", extended Beck Weathers interview, deleted scenes, climber video journals, 3D Everest map, Titanica trailer, 5.0 surround....
10) Chocolat
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
11) The great raid
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Penninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along...
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"In a quest to find his biological parents, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)--joined by his wife (Patricia Arquette) and a sexy adoption counselor (Téa Leoni)--embarks on a cross-country search for his 'roots.' Yet as he careens from one outrageous situation to another, Mel finds himself tempted by the seductive counselor--even as his wife starts a flirtation of her own! By the time they meet up with his free-spirited birth parents, the whole situation is...
14) The story seeker
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Viviani Fedeler, proud resident of the New York Public Library, has her sights set on becoming a star reporter. She's thrilled when Miss Hutch announces a story contest where the winner gets their essay printed in the New York Times! But then Viviani gets her first-ever case of writer's block. As she struggles to find inspiration, the library is hit with a strange mystery involving overdue books, secret messages, and perhaps a spy...
15) Rounders
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks."--IMDB web site.
16) K-PAX
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A stranger who calls himself Prot, seemingly appears out of nowhere. Claiming to come from the distant planet K-PAX, Prot draws the attention of jaded Dr. Powell, whose initial skepticism soon turns to fascination and amazement. As Prot continues to baffle the experts, his return to K-Pax is fast approaching, and the search for answers intensifies.
17) Swingers
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Hip and hilarious look at a fun group of friends who spend their days looking for work and their nights hanging out in Hollywood's coolest after-hours spots.
18) Clerks
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Description
Tells the story of Homer, who has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an orphanage in rural Maine and has been trained by its proprietor, Dr. Wilbur Larch to be Larch's successor. Wally Worthington brings his pregnant girlfriend, Candy Kendall, to the orphanage because Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions. Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. When Wally leaves to fight in World War II, Homer...
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