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(0)Lauren Bacall
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable scenes in movie history. After tragically losing Bogart, she returned to New York and a brilliant career in the theatre. A two-time Tony winner, she married and later divorced...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a contract, the terms of which Calcifer cannot reveal. They promise...
6) Birth
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
7) Misery
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who is on his way home from his Colorado retreat after completing his latest book. He doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who happens to be Paul's 'number one fan.' Annie takes Paul back to her house in the mountains, and he finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Unfortunately for Paul,...
Series
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
Language
English
Description
World-weary Harry Morgan is not about to help the Free French. But he and his sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Since WWII is raging all around them, business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the French resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer, and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond.
13) The big sleep
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
High definition.
Language
English
Description
A young woman named Sophie flees to the moving castle of a notorious wizard named Howl after she is cursed to look old beyond her years; while at the castle she falls in love with Howl who can see Sophie's true self despite the curse.
15) A foreign field
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Secrets are revealed and passions rekindled when British and American war vets return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day.
Series
Pub. Date
2004, [2017]
Edition
[1 disc edition].
Language
English
Description
Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. The vengeful Witch of the Waste, jealous of their friendship, puts a spell on Sophie. In a life changing adventure, Sophie climbs aboard Howl's magnificent moving castle and enters a magical world on a quest to break the spell.
17) Blood Alley
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An American merchant marine captain ferries a group of Chinese refugees down the Yangtze River to escape the Communists.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she was literally swept off her feet by handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. After this chance meeting she is turned into a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste. Embarking on an incredible adventure to lift the curse, she finds refuge in Howl's magical moving castle where she becomes acquainted with Markl, Howl's apprentice,...
19) The forger
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old art prodigy abandoned by his drug addicted mother finds refuge in the picturesque art village of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. While trying to survive on his own, he is introduced to the high dollar underground world of art forgery.
20) Flame over India
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A career soldier uses an antiquated train for an assignment to rescue an American governess and a five-year-old Indian prince on the northwest frontier of India during a rebellion among Moslem tribesmen.
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