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601) Funny About Love
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The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing session. Once married, the old "clash of careers" bugaboo arises: Meg wants to continue working as a chef in a fancy New York restaurant, while Duffy would prefer...
602) Humpday
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English
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It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual...
603) For The Glory
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After the death of his older brother, Kurt tries to make everyone happy. But faced with the rejection of his perfectionist father, his mother's crippling alcoholism and his own failure to make it as a college basketball player, Kurt is driven to an emotional and spiritual crossroad. Then at the bidding of an insistent friend, Kurt reluctantly tries out for his fraternity's soccer team, even though he had never played competitive soccer in his life!...
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This original cult thriller that inspired the 2012 erotic horror remake stars film and TV icon Alyssa Milano (TV's CHARMED, TV's MISTRESSES) in one of her most revealing and controversial roles. Charlotte (Milano) is a beautiful but chaste college freshman nearing her 18th birthday who, after meeting a mysterious, handsome suitor, begins to experience erotic nightmares. What Charlotte doesn't know is she is the reincarnation of a Transylvanian princess...
605) Rabid Love
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The story is set in the summer of 1984 and follows Heather Ross and her group of friends just after their graduation from college. We meet the gang on their way to one last weekend at a cabin in the woods where, unknown to Heather, her boyfriend plans to propose.
They hear rumors of a wild bear that is supposedly killing hikers in the woods but do not head the warnings of the local townspeople. Love triangles bloom as the campers attempt to follow...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2011
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English
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Turning Points in American History is your chance to relive the most powerful and groundbreaking moments in the fascinating story of the United States of America. These 48 lectures, delivered by masterful historian and dynamic Professor Edward T. O'Donnell of College of the Holy Cross, offer you a different perspective on the sweeping narrative of U.S. history. Spanning the arrival of the first English colonists to the chaos of the Civil War to the...
607) All-Stars
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ALL-STARS follows a girls' 10-year-old fastpitch softball team and their families through a recreation league season that culminates in the selection of the coveted 10-and-under All-Star team. Lance Grayden, a veteran coach who left the league years ago when his daughter moved to an elite softball club team, and then college, has returned to "give something back" to the community. Assuming he'd be coaching a 16-and-under team of seasoned and accomplished...
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Part documentary and part performance art, Renz Julian: Thug Scholarship takes audiences on a musical journey through the life of rapper Renz Julian, a former college- and pro-football player turned musician and street activist. A native of California's Bay Area, Renz guides his audience through the gritty streets of Oakland and Antioch, revealing a powerful story of family and personal struggle set against an urban economic crisis. Renz chronicles...
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"If there's nothing wrong with him, why is he here?" college freshman Tom Butterfield asks a doctor about an orphaned little boy. "Rotten luck ," is the reply. "]oey's mother and father were killed. The court couldn't find a foster home. They had to put him someplace." Someplace is the Missouri State Hospital, a facility for mentally ill men. Tom is appalled then outraged when joey is brutally raped by a patient. Tom and the doctor bend a few dozen...
610) High School
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The day after soon-to-be valedictorian Henry Burke (Matt Bush of ADVENTURELAND, PIRANHA 3DD) takes a hit of the chronic for the first time, his school principal (Michael Chiklis of TV's THE SHIELD, FANTASTIC FOUR FRANCHISE) institutes a zero-tolerance drug policy and mandatory drug tests for all students. Henry has two options: fail and lose his college scholarship, or team up with his stoner friend Breaux (Sean Marquette of AMERICA'S SON, TV's THE...
611) Solitary Man
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Ben (Michael Douglas of WALL STREET) once ruled a car-dealership empire vast enough to fuel a glossy Manhattan lifestyle and endow a library at an East Coast university. But by the time he arrives at the college with his girlfriend's daughter, Allyson (Imogen Poots), who is a prospective student, his world has collapsed around his ears. A business scandal has cost him his income and his marriage to Nancy (Susan Sarandon of THELMA & LOUISE). His ever-present...
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Black American Experience volume 1
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English
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Chapter 1 Brief Hawthorne Biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem Massachusetts in 1804 and died on vacation at Plymouth, New Hampshire 1864. After graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne lived in Salem, Concord, and Pittsfield Massachusetts then later, as American consul in Liverpool, England. For his final Concord years, Hawthorne resided at 'Wayside' in a neighborhood that included Emerson, Thoreau, the Alcotts and other transcendental...
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Travel Thru History volume 28
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English
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On this episode of Travel Thru History we'll journey to the luckiest little Island in the Atlantic that just so happens to have the biggest history. Dublin, Ireland where beautiful scenery and friendly people welcome you with open arms. First, we'll take you to one of the oldest universities in Europe, Trinity College. Where we'll find the Book of Kells a masterpiece that dates back to around 800 AD. Next, we'll visit Glasnevin Cemetery, the resting...
614) It's Criminal
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Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice. It's Criminal highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break down barriers and learn to speak to each other. When twenty-four women come together to create a play based on the experiences...
615) Cromwell's Head
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From regal burial to exhumation and decapitation, this relic of our only non-royal ruler has traveled a most peculiar path. It has been a gruesome warning to traitors, a secret prize for a soldier, an attraction at an eighteenth-century peep show, and an object of veneration and derision until it was finally laid to rest in a secret ceremony. This one-hour documentary tells the full story of this extraordinary artifact and unravels a mystery that...
616) Spirit of the Game
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It's 1956 and twenty-year-old Delyle Condie is on top of the world. MVP of his college basketball team (University of Utah) and engaged to Emily, his high school sweetheart, life is looking pretty good. That is, until the second round of the NCAA tournament. Midway through the most important game of his life, Emily unexpectedly breaks off her engagement to Delyle. Heartbroken, Delyle makes the spontaneous decision to quit basketball and embark on...
617) Zena
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English
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Beautiful Zena Nowakowski is an eighteen year-old musician with one goal: to get a record deal. Living with her strict Christian grandparents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the only joy she gets out of her otherwise boring life is from being the lead singer of a struggling indie-rock band. When she learns about a music competition in Toronto that will award the winner with a record deal, she rebels against her headstrong grandfather. The road trip there...
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One Day University presents a series of video lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice.Military strategy and tactic matters. Civilizations with the greatest strategist, as well as the greatest resources, have had a powerful edge over competing...
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中文(繁體)
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A young single mother of Dai minority named Ye Nan returns from Shanghai to her scenic home village at Sino-Burmese border. She tries to assimilate back into her clan and make amends for the tense relationship between her and her daughter, Nan Hang. During one of their quarrels, the rebellious teenage girl rants questions about why one must relocate to cities to compete for the best colleges and jobs rather than stay in their countryside ancestral...
620) Spanglish
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
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English
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When Flor and her daughter, Christina come to the United States, Flor gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of an English, she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina along....
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