Edward Asner
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English
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This heartwarming animated tale begins in a snowy forest on Christmas Eve, where a forlorn little pine tree feels she is too homely to ever realize her dream of being a real Christmas tree. With the help of a comical Baby Bear, a happy-go-lucky Squirrel, a cynical Nutcracker, and a host of other forest critters, as well as a visit from Santa Claus himself, the little tree discovers the true beauty of the season...shines from within!
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English
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Corporate raiders (Edward Asner) with limitless capital have a market analysis on a new legal substance and a strategic plan to take over. As Mary Jane (Joan Schirle), a back to the land pot farmer comes to terms with her life as a grower and a mother in the economy, will she survive the establishment's infrastructure as a female entrepreneur?
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English
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The life-long Democrat who played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show puts out a call to all liberals to reclaim the constitution from the right-wingers who use it as justification for every horrible thing they want to do.
Thanks to free public education, anyone can read the Constitution-- and should. The men who wrote it couldn't agree on what it meant, so should you trust someone who claims they do? Asner, a life-long Democrat, puts out a call...
5) Scat
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English
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Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
6) Hiroshima
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English
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Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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Collier books. Classic volume AS381
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English
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The dead arise from their sleep in the cemetery of a small town to tell their individual stories about an entire community caught in a web of scandal, sin, and vice in the early twentieth century.
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English
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When this groundbreaking, serialized dramatization premiered on 320 U.S. radio stations, critics were unanimous in their praise, calling it “a feast for the ears” and “a magnificent blend of scholarship and showmanship.” It won numerous honors including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Pulitzer Prize of broadcasting. Now twenty years after its first airing, Blackstone Audiobooks is pleased to present this outstanding production. The...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Based on the Broadway musical based on the hit Christmas movie, tells the story of Buddy the elf and his quest to reunite with the human father he never knew existed. While Buddy's sincerity and idealism are commonplace at the North Pole, these attributes are rejected in cynical New York City. But through song, dance, and relentless good cheer, Buddy rekindles the spirit of Christmas for the entire city.
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Distributed by Warner Bros. Television Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Christmas has always been a test of survival for Eddie and his brood. And that's truer than ever when they receive an all-expenses-paid holiday tour of the South Pacific and end up shipwrecked on a remote island.
12) Up
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English
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Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
13) Elf
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2004], c2003
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English
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A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representation from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. This documentary breaks important new ground in exploring wasy in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. Featuring...
15) Too big to fail
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
16) The animal
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English
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From the producers of the comedy smash Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo comes THE ANIMAL, the tale of lowly file clerk Marvin Mange (Rob Schneider), who doesn’t have the athletic prowess it takes to complete the police training school and fulfill his lifelong dream to be a cop. But his luck changes when he’s critically injured in a car accident and an eccentric doctor secretly uses animal organs to perform a trans-species-ectomy to rebuild him. Energized...
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Conversations with God volume 7
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English
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Something extraordinary is about to happen on this planet. Humanity is about to create a new form of spirituality. This New Spirituality will allow humans to express their natural impulse toward the Divine without making one another wrong for the way in which they are doing it, and without killing one another in the name of it. When the New Spirituality is embraced by humanity, it will, of course, change everything. And that is exactly what is needed...
19) Hard rain
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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Set during a massive flood started by a dam accident in a small town, Christian Slater is an armored truck guard who gets robbed by Morgan Freeman. Slater gets away with all the money and hides it. In a panic, Slater tells the sheriff about the area he hid the money in and the sheriff locks him up. Now Slater has to get to the money and keep himself alive battling the sheriff, Morgan Freeman and his crew and the elements.
20) Actual innocence
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English
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It's not every day a federal judge comes knocking at one's door, especially with a curious request- to review the final appeal of a murderer on Death Row. California lawyer Greg Monarch has every intention of saying no to the request- until he discovers the prisoner is his former lover. Six months from execution, Sarah Trant has turned to the one man she hopes can save her. Greg failed once before trying to rescue Sarah from...