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Pub. Date
2007
Description
By the time she published "Silent Spring" in 1963, Rachel Carson had suffered a bout with cancer and the admonishment of friends who tried to convince her that a book on the chemical poisoning of the environment was too depressing for anyone to read. When "Silent Spring" was published, Carson was viciously attacked. Huge sums of money were spent to discredit her. The smear campaign backfired. The book sparked a revolution in government environmental...
2) Breathless
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Edition
Original UK Edition.
Description
Follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital, a world in which everything and everyone has their place. But underneath this veneer simmers a cauldron of lies and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. Breathless opens in 1961, a time when Britain was on the brink of the '60s revolution, abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just available to married women.
3) Suburbicon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
4) Miss Sloane
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In the world of political power brokers, Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career, the gun lobby, and will do whatever is required to win.
8) Alexander
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
2-disc widescreen special edition.
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in...
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The story of the world-famous Lipizzaner stallions -- from their origins in ancient times to the almost unknown drama of their rescue in 1945, beginning with the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, where the white stallions perform an impressive display of beauty and power that celebrates a perfect harmony between horse and rider.
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Succession follows the Roy family -- Logan Roy and his four children -- who control one of the biggest media and entertainment conglomerates in the world. The series tracks their lives as they contemplate what the future will hold for them once their aging father begins to step back from the company.
13) A dog's purpose
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
It shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
An idealistic young woman falls for a rebel leader and takes on a murderous dictator. Today, November 25 is observed in many Latin American countries as the International Day Against Violence Towards Women. This is based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, whose deaths became the final blow to the regime of Leonidas Trujillo, who was assassinated six months later.
16) Up in the air
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Pack your bags and join Peppa Pig and her family and friends as they travel around the world. Every day brings new experiences for Peppa, but these twelve peppasodes are especially oinktastic. For the first time, Peppa and her family travel to America. They explore New York, the city that never sleeps, eat at a diner down south, venture through the Grand Canyon, and then star in a movie filmed in Hollywood, lights, camera, Peppa. Learn all about planes,...
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Ricky and Cal for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky must face...
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