Alan Cumming
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Kareem cradled her close to him, tucking her between his arm and his body, trying to keep her head above the thrashing, pounding waves, but Kate fought against him and slipped from his grasp. Moments later, she resurfaced beside him, and as he reached for her once more, she gripped his head between her two hands and screamed into his face. Hawklight! Find Hawklight! He cant swim! Leave me! I can make it back to the boat! He opened his mouth to argue,...
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Series
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Kate Gallagher has returned to Hogarth only to learn terrible news: as he was leading a secret expedition south, her estranged friend Hawklight was murdered by unknown assassins. Driven by guilt because she created the rift in their friendship, Kate vows to avenge his death. But as she begins to sift through the facts about his mysterious mission, she uncovers a diabolical plot that threatens to resurrect the spectre of Varak in the form of a new...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.
6) Anil's Ghost
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When bodies are discovered on the island of Sri Lanka, Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, is sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A music-filled fairy tale about finding true love in the unlikeliest of places. Features a host of colorful characters, including a princess who has sworn off love, a dubious villain, a slightly nutty Sugar Plum Fairy, a tenacious elf, a mischievous imp, and a knight who is no Prince Charming.
9) The tempest
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr. 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge. Includes bonus features.
10) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
11) Spy kids
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
12) Sweet land
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
13) Rare objects
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A broken young woman recovering from her time in a psychiatric hospital and seeking to rebuild her life moves back with her mother and starts a new job at a New York City antique store.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Following a year long separation, a successful British novelist and his American movie-actress wife mark their sixth wedding anniversary with a gathering at their exquisite Neutra-designed mountaintop home overlooking Los Angeles. Sally and Joe seem to be the perfect Hollywood couple, but they teeter on the brink of disaster, as do most of their guests. Party favors, in the form of the drug Ecstasy, cause emotions, painful truths and unforeseen incidents...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (955 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
17) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protege?e, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 956 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
19) Annie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms...
20) Tin man
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (264 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dorothy Gale, a.k.a. DG, is all grown up and bored. She mopes around working as a waitress and goes to school part time. Before she knows it, she's back in OZ and on the run from the evil sorceress Azkadellia, her storm troopers and clumsy bats. Along the way she falls in with some strange characters including the brainless Glitches; Raw, a cowardly and psychic lion-man hybrid; and, Wyatt Cain, a cowboy cop from Central City called a 'tin man' because...