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1) My Hero
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George Sunday lives in London with the love of his life, Nurse Janet Dawkins. Their busy lives are overshadowed by one unique yet significant element - George is Thermoman, a superhero. The humour and strains of their relationship (she doesn't understand that Thermoman's tights must not go in the washing machine; he doesn't realise that you don't French-kiss your girlfriend's mother - a light peck will do) make for captivating viewing.
2) Hatching
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12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Paw Patrol is on a roll, even through the ice and snow, in these seven wintery missions, including a double-length adventure to save Christmas! From a ski-lift rescue to tracking down a snow monster, no job is too big and no pup is too small. Plus, see how Rubble first joined the team by helping out in a snowy situation!
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three years after his daughter went missing, children's author Stephen Lewis struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelman have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
With magic returned to the world, the Librarians are needed now more then ever. Jacob Stone, Eezekiel Jones and Cassandra Cillian have taken on the role of full-time Librarians, and together with their guardian, Eve Baird, long-time Librarian, Flynn Carsen and their caretaker, Jenkins, they will face all the challenges that this new age of magic is bringing to the world. An ancient spell has brought some of the greatest fictional villains off the...
8) Atlantis
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Ancient Greek myths and legends are brought to life for a new generation in this thrilling fantasy drama. Ripped from his present day search for his father, Jason wakes up on the shores of a strange land. A wondrous place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired Goddesses and vast palaces - this is the lost city of Atlantis. As Jason searches for the truth about his father he embarks on an epic adventure which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa,...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an MMA trainer discovers her boyfriend, the reigning champion, cheating on her, she sets out for revenge by training the one man capable of dethroning him: his arch-nemesis. Based on the wildly popular novel by Claudia Tan.
10) Elf-Man
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An Elf is left behind by Santa to help rescue the Harper family from a lousy Christmas. The Elf and the family get more than they bargained for, as the kids help the Elf discover his special powers and true identity as a budding superhero.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (466 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up dead, Maria and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie,...
12) The book thief
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
13) Petite Maman
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Câeline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
14) Farscape
Description
Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.
15) Nightbreed
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
16) The Color Purple
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A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
17) Jules
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JULES follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls “Jules.” Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
When a disgruntled elf sees her chance to take over the North Pole, she uses a magical machine to turn time backwards on Jolly Old Santa Claus and he begins getting younger-- and fast! With Mrs. Claus captured and in candy cane jail, it's up to a loyal elf, a little girl with a magical key, and the now-teenage Santa to turn forward the hands of time and save the future of Christmas.
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Catch this whimsical holiday film bursting with comical elfin escapades! Based on the classic tale of the Shoemaker and the Elves, Hans the shoemaker is helped by a group of mismatched elves who want to work for Santa Claus.
20) Rumpelstiltskin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
RUMPELSTILTSKIN is a musical fantasy film, based on the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm in which a miller's daughter must spin straw into gold in order to marry a prince. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
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