Lynn Redgrave
2) Ink heart
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House, Inc., Listening Library
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Meggie doesn't understand why her father refuses to read to her. Only when they're captured by a sinister fictional villain does she find out the truth: her father has the power to read characters out of their stories and into real life!
"...an intriguing, fast-paced, and provocative fantasy..."--AudioFile
"Redgrave...shows her power as a narrator with well-chosen voices that fit each character and mood."--School Library Journal
4) Shine
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. Driven by his father and his teachers he experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
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Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Every Halloween, the ghost of the Plaza's most legendary and outrageous inhabitant of old, Diamond Jim Johnson, returns to haunt the halls. There are tricks and treats galore in store when Eloise busts some ghosts and reverses a curse.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Nanny enrolls Eloise in the prestigious Hawthorne Academy, but she soon finds out it isn't exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teachers, and so many rules. Eloise decides it is time to make school fun again, she's teaching her new friends to stand up to bullies, helping her teacher understand there are a lot of different ways to learn and having tons of adventures.
7) Toothless
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
After a dentist is killed by a car, she's denied entry to heaven until she serves some duty as the Tooth Fairy.
8) My dog Tulip
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Relive the grand hopes, dreams, loves, and adventures of generations of residents in Centennial, Colorado - from their risky attempts to establish a settlement in 1795 through the politics and power plays of the twentieth century.
10) Peter Pan
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckler skills and the ever fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become real heroes of an even greater story when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and takes them on a journey over moonlit rooftops to the lush jungles of Neverland.
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English
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Description
From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only...
12) Prince Caspian
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Series
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English
Description
An evil king sits of the throne of Narnia, forcing all the Talking Beasts and mythical creatures to live in hiding. The rightful king, the young Prince Caspian, fights desperately to regain the throne and save his people. But when all seems lost the Great Lion, Aslan, calls Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, four heroes from another world, to join the battle and free Narnia.
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English
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Description
New York Times bestseller! From the warm and colorful imagination of Mary Engelbreit comes a Mother Goose book bursting with warmth and humor. This highly illustrated hardcover treasury includes everyone's favorite time-honored characters-Little Bo-Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, and many, many more. Readers will enjoy Mary Engelbreit's interpretations of the mouse running up the clock, piggies going to market, and children dancing...
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The publication in 1992 of Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story shook the British Royal family to its very foundations. Initially greeted with disbelief, as time passed, it became clear that the book was, as its title claimed, Diana's true story. Diana's friends were hopeful that separation from Charles would bring Diana freedom to find happiness. But has it? With her marriage in limbo and her children only occasionally by her side, Diana's position...
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Simone de Beauvoir is best known for her association with the French Existentialist movement of the 1940s (a close relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre), and for the book that many claim gave birth to the feminist theory in the twentieth century, The Second Sex. Beauvoir was trained as a philosopher; she was the ninth woman in France ever to receive a doctorate in philosophy and, in 1929 at the age of twenty-one, the youngest person ever to earn the...
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Voltaire and Rousseau offered opposing viewpoints on the major intellectual movement of their time: the Enlightenment. Like most Enlightenment thinkers, Voltaire repudiated tradition and history, embracing reform based on individualism and intellectual freedom. Rousseau, however, valued intellectual tradition and emphasized society's importance in establishing property, the rule of law, moral equality, and freedom. Though they openly despised one...
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The Stoics and Epicureans date from the Hellenistic period (ca. 323 BC - 31 BC), and both schools were heavily influenced by the philosophy of Socrates. The Epicurean mission was to live virtuously in a wicked world. They advocated a simple, quiet, reclusive, sensible life of moderation among friends, avoiding extravagant worldly attractions and bringing no trouble on others. A wise person was one who exhibits rational self-control, subordinating...
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The 20th century English philosophers Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead will be forever linked by their collaboration of Principia Mathematica, a three volume technical work that used purely logical premises in an attempt to deduce the structure of arithmetic and algebra. Whitehead and Russell both admired the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, and in their own ways both were dedicated to the Platonist ideals of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty....
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Twentieth-century European philosophy has grown out of two movements: existentialism (emphasizing the everyday turmoil of living) and phenomenology (seeking the essential, indispensable core of things grasped by pure consciousness). These movements highlight consciousness, meaning, freedom, and body; later philosophers have also stressed language, discourse, and power. Major figures in "continental philosophy" are: Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) focused...