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1) Black widow
Series
Fox film noir volume 22
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect, while a series...
2) A royal pain
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 2
Formats
Description
The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy Prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry. But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. She must draw up plans: clean house to make it look like a palace; have Granddad and her neighbor pretend to be the domestic staff; un-teach...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
"Time is as mysterious as it is familiar ..." An exploration of the mysteries of why time works the way it does "addressed by physics, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and cosmology"--p. 1.
Publisher
Pioneer Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
221 Baker Street has gone to the dogs! Sherlock Hound delivers an inspiring introduction of these classic mysteries to new audiences. The wonderful story telling and signature directing styles re-populate Sherlock Holmes' world with anthropomorphic dogs and a light touch suitable for all audiences.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Examines some puzzling aspects of human nature that have intrigued scientists and laypeople alike. Relying on the latest theories and research from psychology, neuroscience and other behavioral sciences, each lecture addresses a provocative question about human behavior.
Publisher
distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A new gang has taken over the Dragon Inn three years after it was left in ruins, using it as their base for uncovering a nearby treasure. But secrets lie within its walls, as a pregnant palace concubine and a swordswoman take refuge from a determined royal eunuch tracking their every move. As an explosive mix of warriors, fugitives, and assassins converge in the desert for a deadly showdown, only one man can protect the women--the mysterious Zhao....
8) Kuroneko
Series
Criterion collection volume 584
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011], c1968
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
In medieval Japan, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling...
9) East of Eden
Author
Appears on list
Description
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
10) Kaidan
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 17 hrs. 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mystery writer turned amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is back with another season of solving crimes and finding the clues that nobody even knew were there.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + Part 1 guidebook (ii, 69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.) + Part 2 guidebook (ii, 65 p. ; 22 cm.) + Part 3 guidebook (ii, 63 p. ; 22 cm.)
Description
Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken. It is essential that Westerners...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1009 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A team of special agents, operating outside the military chain of command, must investigate any crime with pieces of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardles of rank or position.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 158 pages ; 19 cm.).
Description
Through Professor Hale's vibrant commentary and extensive field footage, you discover monumental ancient cities, classical ruins, temples, shrines, fortresses, stadiums, theaters, churches, and palaces. In each site, you explore the critical history and culture that defined them and the ways in which they influenced our modern world. In their compelling historical and visual detail, the lectures offer both a rich resource for travelers preparing to...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1022 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Contains all 23 episodes of the second season of the popular detective television series. Follows the investigations of the forensics team of the Las Vegas Police Department. The Las Vegas Crime Lab is still headed by brusque, but dedicated Gil Grissom, whose talented associates include Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, Warrick Brown, and Sara Sidle, with Captain Jim Brass providing support from the Detective Bureau.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (19 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the adventures of the Ingalls family as they stake their claim to a rugged parcel of land on the Kansas prairie. Their exciting journey brings them face-to-face with mysterious Indians, wild animals, and their peculiar new neighbors.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,320 mins) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Description
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 750 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Max and 99 pursue their elusive KAOS adversaries around the world - going from Greenland to the scorching sands of the Sahara desert; come face-to-face with their dastardly foes; stay in a Bedoin tent; stay at the "Pussycat Club;" and deep beneath the eaves in a secret KOAS submarine. The madcap misadventures just get funnier.
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