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Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Firefighter George teaches kids how steam engines work and illustrates the top ten lessons on train safety. Discover how the locomotive heats the coal which creates the steam to make the big engine go. Learn the different parts of a steam locomotive. See big steam trains going over high bridges, through dark tunnels and chugging around curves. Hear the train's whistle and see how the engineer makes it blow. Parents will appreciate the educational...
13) Thumbelina
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped by a toad, a beautiful girl no bigger than a thumb has many adventures and makes many animal friends before meeting her perfect mate, Prince Cornelius, who is just her size.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
Watch Baby Santa's Music Box featuring a magical excursion of lights, ornaments, sleigh bells, stockings, presents, winter scenes, happy children and jolly Santas. Or listen to the Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra for a holiday classics concert of traditional melodies from France, England, Ireland, Germany, Israel, Japan and the U.S., plus classical favorites by Handel, Mozart, and Tschaikovsky.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Made for television documentary chronicles the C.S. Lewis story from his early days in Northern Ireland, through his acclaimed academic career at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, and his relationship with his wife, Joy.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or evidence of it, beyond Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Think you know about dinosaurs? Think again! New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Steve Brusatte brings young scientists and readers everywhere into his world of massive herbivores and fearsome predators, daily unexpected discoveries, and all the new science used to learn about some of the world's oldest beings. Even though the dinosaurs roamed the earth millions of years ago, we're still piecing together new information about these...
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the perfect place to live ... it's a little to perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
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