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Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie."--IMDb.
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. Based on James Jones' novel, this is the story of Charlie Company's landing and battle experience there in 1942. The story concentrates on how the battle affects, and is effected by, Commanding officer Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, Captain James Staros, Sgt. Edward Welsh, and two privates, Witt and Bell. Charlie Company is attacking...
65) The wild things
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze.
66) One crazy summer
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aspiring artist and the aspiring singer he loves join the most berserk brood of sun-and-funners on Nantucket Island in New England.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
" A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the near future, the few surviving dogs are studied in a sanctuary, Dog Island, where seventeen-year-old Nano Miller tests robotic dogs, seeks her missing brother, and experiences her first romance.