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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Don't miss a bewitching new film for the entire family, directed by Goro Miyazaki, with planning by Academy Award-winner Hayao Miyazaki. Growing up in an orphanage in the British countryside, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch. As the headstrong young girl sets out to uncover the secrets of her new guardians, she discovers...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jesse Stone is shot while moonlighting on a Boston stakeout, leaving his friend fighting for his life and Stone out for justice. His rogue investigation to find the shooter leads him into Boston's shady underworld. This leads him right into the bed of a Boston PD investigator, who wants his head on a platter if he continues to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Stone is approached by a broken-hearted mother who is convnced her kidnapped son is still alive....
Language
English
Formats
Description
What happened to Father Ralph de Bricassart and Meggie Cleary during the mystery years not covered in the original 1983 hit miniseries? The Thorn Birds - The Missing Years provides the spellbinding answer. Richard chamberlain returns as de Bricassart in this riveting companion to The Thorn birds, based on Colleen McCullough's bestseller. During World War II, De Bricassart heroically rescues refugees in Rome, then is sent by the Vatican to the sprawling...
6) Kidnapped
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Alan Breck Stewart returns to his homeland to discover he is a wanted man. Alan quickly sets on a mission to retrieve tributes from loyalists in France to help fund a future uprising. Meanwhile, following the death of his father, David Balfour discovers he is heir to an estate in the lowlands of Scotland. His cruel Uncle Ebenezer craves the land and arranges for his nephew to be kidnapped and stowed upon a ship bound for the Carolinas.
Language
English
Description
A young girl finds an injured wolf/dog while visiting her grandfather and wants to nurse it back to health and take it back to Boston with her. When her grandfather tries to talk her out of it by reading her Jack London's Call of the Wild, the little girl has ideas of her own.
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Following his rapid rise through the ranks of the King's Navy, Hornblower is assigned to the HMS Renown which is sailing to the West Indies to subdue a pirate fleet. Her brutal captain is rapidly going insane forcing Hornblower to take action that threatens not only his naval career but his life as well.
12) Shōgun
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Japan at the beginning of the 17th Century, John Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked off the coast of Japan is rescued; he becomes an eyewitness to a deadly struggle involving Tornaga, a feuding warlord intent on becoming Shogun-The Supreme Military Dictator. At the same time, Blackthorne is irresistibly drawn into the turmoil and finds himself vying to become the first-ever Gai-Jin (foreigner) to be a made a Samurai Warrior.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
RX: Andrew, Melissa and Jonny are friends in the prime of their lives. But when the real life weight of family misfortune becomes too much for Andrew to bear, he makes a desperately naive decision. What is meant to be a weekend party across the border soon becomes a heartbreaking journey that tests the boundaries of companionship, romantic love and personal ethics.
Tusks: Intense tale of murder, greed and revenge, set in Africa, about the conflict...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ron Clark story. This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark uses persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
The kid: This is a powerful coming-of-age story following the ups and downs of a young boxer's life inside and outside the ring. Jimmy has a calling...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Albino alligator: When a holdup goes terribly wrong, the robbers flee to a local bar, desperately taking everyone inside hostage!
Heroic trio: Three female martial arts experts (each with her own superhero identity) team up to battle a powerful wizard who thinks that if he kidnaps all the babies in China he can eventually dominate the world.
Breach of faith: While investigating the murder of a priest, veteran detective Paul Fein searches for a witness...
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