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1) Nana
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Nana "Hachi" Komatsu is a naive, unmotivated girl who spends her days chasing one crush after the other. Despite continually facing failure in her quest for love, her spirits have never dampened. At age 20, she finds herself on a train to Tokyo with hopes of reuniting with her current boyfriend. Nana Osaki is feisty and prideful. After joining a local band, she falls in love with one of the band members. However, when faced with the choice between...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy. We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts ... An instant international bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Sarah Obeng, a doctoral student at Columbia University, is weeks away from following her very married boyfriend to Ohio when her mother suddenly passes away. Her inheritance? King of Glory, a small Christian bookstore serving a Ghanaian immigrant community in the Bronx. Tasked with arranging her mother's funeral according to her family's traditional expectations, Sarah must simultaneously navigate her plans to relocate as well as the unexpected return...
Publisher
Nickelodeon / Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Welcome to the fairy best café in the Puddlebrook. Help Butterbean and friends on Opening Day in a delicious double-length special. Take a spin in the Sweet Ride, serve up Fluttercakes, help prep Cricket's first menu, and even make lunch for the president. Just watch out for greedy Ms. Marmalady.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. Okko discovers there are spirits who live there that only she can see; not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company and play games. The inn₂s motto is that it welcomes all and rejects none, and it is soon put to the test as a string of new guests challenge...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. Okko discovers there are spirits who live there that only she can see; not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company and play games. The inn₂s motto is that it welcomes all and rejects none, and it is soon put to the test as a string of new guests challenge...
9) Texas rising
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Bringing to life the true story of how the people of Texas fought for freedom against the mighty Mexican military that had overtaken the Alamo. The legendary Texas Rangers assembled for the first time against General Santa Anna's massive military might. United under the leadership of Sam Houston and with the help of his ragtag army, they passionately battled for life and country and the Lone Star State.
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is, well, he might actually be black,...
12) Bleeding steel
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
While tracking down a deranged, mech-enhanced villain, Lin discovers that a geneticist's lost biochemical invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter. With the help of a young hacker, Lin connects the dots between the device that haunts his daughter, his enemy's sinister army, and a strange cultural phenomenon.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The fourth series aired as a single story in 10 episodes. When convicted child killer Oswald Danes miraculously survives his own execution, the footage holds America transfixed. And then everyone realizes that nobody is dying. People keep aging--they get hurt and sick--but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight. It's a race against time as CIA agent Rex Matheson investigates a secret British institution named Torchwood that seems...
16) Dan in real life
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist. He has three daughters and is a widower. He brings the family to his parent's house for a family gathering. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie. When he gets home, he finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch. Dan's mother Nana announces that she met an old acquaintance of Dan's, Ruthie Draper and that she has set up a date between Dan and Ruthie. Dan refuses to go. Mitch...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When Ryan Atwood, a tough, guarded, fiercely intelligent 16-year-old plunges headlong into the wealthy community of Newport Beach, he soon discovers that the ruling families of Orange County are every bit as territorial as the tough crowd with which he ran on the streets of Chino. For Sandy Cohen, the idealistic public defender who takes Ryan in; his wife Kirsten, the linchpin of O.C. society; their awkward adolescent son, Seth; and the beautiful...
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