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1) Casting By
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English
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Putting the spotlight on filmmaking's unsung heroes - the casting director - CASTING BY takes us on a fast-paced journey through the last half century of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective. Pioneers like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster were iconoclasts whose exquisite taste and gut instincts helped to put the final nail in the coffin of the old studio system and usher in the New Hollywood. Afforded the unprecedented freedom and...
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Language
English
Description
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story explores the unique relationship between people and their beloved pets through candid interviews with notable dog lovers. Viewers are offered an intimate glimpse into the lives of actors and musicians, authors and designers through the aspect of their lives that unites them all: the profound connection they have with their dogs.
5) The Wife
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Language
English
Description
A wife questions her life choices when her husband is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
6) Albert Nobbs
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Language
English
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A poverty-stricken woman in 1860s Ireland disguises herself as a man to gain employment as a waiter in a Dublin hotel. As she settles into her new role in society, she becomes increasingly confused about her identity, courting a maid while pretending to be a man and revealing her secret to a hotel guest.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
Glenn Close stars in this story of a young Hungarian conductor's big break, a production of Wagner's masterpiece Tännhauser at the Opera Europa in Paris. But the diva is particularly difficult; the dancers go on strike; management is feuding; the sets are hideous; and the theater is picketed by environmentalists. And then the conductor falls in love. Now will Tännhauser be a success, or will the aspiring conducter return to Hungary in shame?
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levelFILM
Language
English
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Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nélisse) has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's (Kathy Bates) endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue.
10) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada Inc
Language
English
Description
A poverty-stricken woman in 1860s Ireland disguises herself as a man to gain employment as a waiter in a Dublin hotel. As she settles into her new role in society, she becomes increasingly confused about her identity, courting a maid while pretending to be a man and revealing her secret to a hotel guest.
11) The Wife
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Language
English
Description
A wife questions her life choices when her husband is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer. Starring Glenn Close.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
Just prior to the French Revolution, a time of legendary decadence, the corseted and perfumed French aristocracy are wealthy beyond reckoning and fully dedicated to the pursuit of their own pleasure. Yet human emotions are not easily trifled with as this timeless plot of labyrinthine intrigue delves into the most private reaches of the human psyche. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves star in this classic tale of innocence, desire...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Irons stars in an Academy Award-winning role with Glenn Close, Christine Baranski and a high-powered supporting cast as Claus vonBülow, an aristocratic, moral reprobate who's guilty of attempted murderbut found legally innocent in a stunning REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. In thisshocking, witty true story that reveals life in a wealthy American upperclass that shamelessly feels no guilt over the consequences of itsactions, a story that examines a legal...
14) The wife
Language
English
Description
While traveling to Stockholm with her husband, where he'll be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a woman confronts the sacrifices she's made on his behalf.
16) Skylark
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
17) Caleb's story
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.
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Series
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English
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"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." This Newbery Medal winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family. Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a...
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English
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"The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu. Shortly after the girls returned to the US...
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Publisher
Listening Library
Language
English
Description
THUMBELINA
A long time ago in Denmark, a childless couple is blessed with a radiantly beautiful baby girl. She is no bigger than a thumb, so she is called Thumbelina. Snatched from her family by an ugly toad who wants to marry her, Thumbelina escapes, befriending various creatures of the forest. Ultimately, she meets the king of the flower angels, with whom she finds happiness forever.
THE EMPEROR AND THE NIGHTINGALE
The Emperor and his
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