Robert Sean Leonard
Author
Lexile measure
HL 1010L
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Description
"This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia....
Language
English
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (965 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (16 hr., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
House finds himself in an uncomfortable position: away from the examination room. As he works to regain his license and his life, his coworkers deal with the staff shakeups, moral dilemmas, and their own tricky relationships with House.
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 704 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team members through the medical wringer with his trademark sarcasm and irreverent bedside manner.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1007 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He's sarcastic, incorrigible, bitter, and in a relationship? Dr. Gregory House has spent his career taking on seemingly hopeless cases, but when his rapport with Dr. Lisa Cuddy changes, he finds himself facing new, and very different, challenges. His team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital also continues to blaze trails as they investigate baffling medical cases involving a religious zealot, a professional bull rider, and possibly even smallpox....
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1050 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gregory House still has the most unapologetically prickly bedside manner ever, but his genius for solving the medical mysteries other practitioners can't has earned him the respect of his team. House's unpredictable cases, from killer germs to killer secrets, strain his already tenuous relationship with his co-workers and put his own health at risk.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1060 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain and ignoring his pain killing addiction, he uses his cane to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. House and his team deal with unusual medical mysteries.
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (972 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on.
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing.
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 20
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Gold Crown collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound (stereo), color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four mentally challenged men share a house and with the help of a social worker learn to cope with the ups and downs of daily life through laughter, love, & joy.
14) A painted house
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Luke Chandler lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Until this summer, Luke has never told a lie or kept a secret. Then he witnesses a fight that causes the death of one of the workers, while someone unknown begins painting the Chandler farmhouse. As Luke watches the world around him change, he harbors secrets that could...
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the deaths of 47 sailors on an ill-fated training exercise aboard the USS Iowa are blamed on a single despondent homosexual crew member, the ship's hardened captain supports the Navy's official position in order to save face. But a skeptical lieutenant with a different theory risks his own reputation and his career to discover the truth behind the tragedy.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 16 hr., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gregory House, a disabled, cantankerous, Vicodin addicted infectious disease specialist, solves medical mysteries with his colleagues at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. The complete sixth season.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1050 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Gregory House still has the most unapologetically prickly bedside manner ever, but his genius for solving the medical mysteries other practitioners can't has earned him the respect of his team. House's unpredictable cases, from killer germs to killer secrets, strain his already tenuous relationship with his co-workers and put his own health at risk."--Container.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color w/ black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The history of the American whaling industry, from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity.