Michael McKean
Author
Description
"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose— wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned— Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression...
3) Book of love
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A teen moves into a new neighborhood in the 1950s, dealing with new neighbors, young love, and friendship.
4) Best in show
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comic look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them).
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to...
7) Playing God
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pair of con artists recruit their longtime mentor to 'play' God in order to scam a grieving billionaire.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
When a nuclear accident turns a successful but bored salesman transparent, he discovers that invisibility—rather than the gift he thought it would be—is a profound burden in this update of a classic science fiction tale.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
The television series is a spinoff from the popular Breaking Bad television show. The series takes place six years before the events of Breaking Bad and features small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill. The series follows the exploits of Jimmy and the circumstances that lead to his metamorphosis into criminal-minded lawyer Saul Goodman.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Still the faithful protector of Notre Dame's beloved bells, Quasimodo now rings them with the help of Esmeralda's and Phoebus' little boy, Zephyr, who is Quasi's best friend. Stopping with Zephyr at a travelling circus owned by the evil magician Sarousch, Quasi is captivated by Sarousch's lovely assistant, Madellaine. But greedy Sarousch is plotting to steal the Cathedral's most famous bell--with Madellaine's unwilling help. Surrounded by sorcery,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83, 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Once upon a time, Spinal Tap had a big hit song. Now, nearly two decades later, Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory as they embark on an accident-plagued tour across America. In Cleveland, the group gets lost underneath the stage. In Washington, they're accidently booked at an Air Force formal dance. And in a Chicago record store, no one shows up to get their autographs.
12) Good omens
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffith and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the Oscar buzz affects the director, additional cast members,...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arnie the Doughnut: Arnie is shocked when he finds he is about to be eaten by Mr. Bing! Arnie realizes his carefree days are about to end... unless he can persuade Mr. Bing that a doughnut can be more than a sweet snack! Roberto the insect architect: A termite dreams of designing big buildings. Hondo & Fabian: Spend a day playing with Hondo the dog and Fabian the cat. That new animal: A duo of dogs plots to get rid of the newest "animal" in the house--...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (216 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the 30-year-old Tom Chadwick, an Englishman who has few roots, little family, and an unsure sense of his purpose in life. Tom inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great-aunt he never met, triggering a passion to investigate his family lineage. As Tom's interest in genealogy grows, his life evolves in unexpected directions, as he uncovers a world of unusual stories and characters in the U.K. and the U.S., as well as a growing...
19) Planes, trains and automobiles: National Lampoon's vacation ; National Lampoon's European vacation
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (287 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner. Along the way he is joined by an obnoxious yet lovable salesman that will not leave him alone.
The all-American Clark family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Mr. Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a...
Formats
Description
Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.