Meryl Streep
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the...
5) Big tree
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees." -- Provided by publisher.
6) Brave Irene
Author
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a fierce snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball.
7) Mamma mia!
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious look at marriage, divorce, and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakery, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the second time around? It's... complicated!
10) Wings of life
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, WINGS OF LIFE utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet....
11) Out of Africa
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya in 1914.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miranda Priestly is the editor of the New York fashion magazine "Runway." She is a terror to everyone who is around. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda hires her as her second assistant. When Miranda demands that Andy obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript for her child, it forces...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ricki, a guitar heroine who gives up everything for her dream of rock n' roll stardom, now returns home to make things right with her family.
14) Julie & Julia
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
PG ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
15) Lions for lambs
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines. They...
16) Hope springs
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple who have been married for 30 years and now are sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the doctor's intense week-long marriage counseling session. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart...
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal. Although it's now the 1930s, she looks exactly the same....
18) The Post
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
19) The ant bully
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After young Lucas shoots some ants with his water pistol they retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him to their size.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to thinke that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...