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Pub. Date
2014
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
4) Life of Pi
Pub. Date
c2013.
Formats
Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Marty Bronson raises his son and daughter on his own. He has to sell his homey motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to make Marty's son manager. But, Nottingham pulls down the motel and builds a pricey hotel. Now grown up, Marty's son, Skeeter, works as a janitor and general servant. He still dreams of becoming the manager. When Nottingham announces a brand-new hotel, built on an existing school's property, he makes his future son-in-law, Kendall,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Overachieving "Jimbo the Frog" participates in every contest he can, just to prove he's a special frog, and he encounters some funny adventures along the way! In "Weaving a Web" a young spider turns to other creatures to learn creative ways to weave, and Stegasaurus Doris and Iguanodon Donna give each other quite a fright in "The Meanest, Nastiest Creature in the World." Only Triceratops Pops can clear up the misunderstanding.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A "genre-twisting film by director Sarah Polley, who investigates the elusive truths of her eclectic family of storytellers as she playfully interrogates a cast of characters who each relate their version of the family mythology. Polley reveals the essence of family as she uncovers the secrets buried deep within-- "--Container
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"So how do you tell stories that stick-- in your own mind and in the minds of your family, friends, colleagues, and clients? That's precisely what you'll learn in The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals, an enthralling course that reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell engaging, entertaining, and memorable tales. In 24 lectures, Professor Hannah B. Harvey of East Tennessee State University...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Finch, a career con, learns he has a price on his head from mob hitman Critical Jim. The reason turns out to be a wacky case of mistaken identity -- Finch has assumed the name of a tabloid sleaze, who it turns out, also has a criminal history of his own. Now Finch has to tell his story (in the form of a movie screenplay) about his cell-mates diamond heist and how after breaking out of prison, Finch and Micah, go about finding the hidden diamonds.
Description
A nightmarish three-part limited series event filled with scorpions, eyeless men, disappearing children and the creepiest carnival of all time! Rachel has a chance to join the secret Midnight Society. All she has to do is tell a truly terrifying story. But when the chilling events of her Tale of Mr. Tophat and the Carnival of Doom start to actually come true and her friends' lives are at stake, Rachel must face her fears and end Mr. Tophat's reign...
14) The fall
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Nineteen-twenties Los Angeles. In a hospital on the outskirts of town, Roy Walker, an injured stuntman, begins to tell young Alexandria, a fellow patient with a broken arm, a fantastical story about five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
Description
A nightmarish three-part limited series event filled with scorpions, eyeless men, disappearing children, and the creepiest carnival of all time! Rachel has a chance to join the secret Midnight Society. All she has to do is tell a truly terrifying story. But when the chilling events of her Tale of Mr. Tophat and the Carnival of Doom start to actually come true and her friends’ lives are at stake, Rachel must face her fears and end Mr. Tophat’s...
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