Viola Davis
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm
Description
When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the very first time, its so magnificent and exciting that he just cant help heading out on his own to explore. From the orchestra pit to the prop table to the dressing rooms, Corduroy sees it all. Could there be a place for Corduroy on stage, too?
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate their way of life.
3) Prisoners
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads, Dover knows his child's life is at stake and decides he must take matters into his own hands. How far...
Formats
Description
Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
5) Widows
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After finding a gun, money, and detailed plans for the security van hijack that killed her husband, Dolly recruits the other widows to complete the heist.
6) Blackhat
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 14 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the help of his American and Chinese partners, a furloughed convict hunts down a high-level cybercrime network.
7) Doubt
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
8) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Formats
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
9) Solaris
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris, terrified crew members are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including eerie visitors who seem all too human.
10) The help
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
11) Widows
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica, Alice, Linda and Belle take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Formats
Description
U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
14) Far from heaven
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In suburban Connecticut, Cathy Whitaker is the perfect 1950s housewife, living the perfect 1950s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night, she stumbles in on her husband Frank kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their black gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration...