Lynn Redgrave
1) The witches
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Language
English
Description
This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
2) Inkheart
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Series
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
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Language
English
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Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color ebook device and in rich black and white on all other devices.
Narnia . . . where animals talk . . . where trees walk . . . where a battle is about to begin.
A prince denied his rightful throne gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum
From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their hunting parties, and where William the...
From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their hunting parties, and where William the...
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Language
English
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Description
It's been a year since the Pevensie children--Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley)--returned to England from Narnia, and they've just about resigned themselves to living their ordinary lives. But just like that, they're once again transported to a fantastical land, but one with a long-abandoned castle. It turns out that they are in Narnia again--and they themselves lived in that castle,...
9) Me, Eloise
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's Eloise's sixth birthday and she is determined it will be a special party. Besides planning her big day, she is busy making friends with a new girl at the hotel. Of course things don't go as planned and Eloise almost misses her own party!
10) Georgy girl
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
11) My dog Tulip
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.
Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eloise and Nanny are on their way to Hollywood where Eloise is given the chance to star in a real movie! She is certain her glamorous dreams are coming true, but stardom is a lot of work. Can she pull off her secret plan and go back to being just plain fabulous Eloise?
14) Peter Pan
Language
English
Formats
Description
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbucker 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. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life, free of grown-up...
15) Shine
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
17) Deeply
Publisher
Distributed by Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A traumatized teenager, who is brought to remoted fishing island off the coast of Nova Scotia to recover from the sudden death of her first love, encounters a curse which has haunted the island since the days of the Vikings.
Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
19) Pygmalion
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Standard full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 66 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eloise and her hotel friends are putting on a Christmas show like no other. Using traditions from the different religions and cultures of her friends, they learn the true meaning of the season.