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Lois Smith
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
2) A dog year
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jon Katz is a writer at a mid-life crossroads who decides to adopt and train a high-strung border collie named Devon, only to discover it's he himself who has the real lessons to learn. Based on a true story.
3) Sweet land
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full version, widescreen format (16:9).
Language
English
Description
The dramatized story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, leaders of the suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. They broke from the mainstream women's rights movement to create a more activist wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full frame ed.
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
6) East of Eden
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen ; two-disc special ed.
Language
English
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.
7) Mack & Rita
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A 30-year-old writer spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her inner 70-year-old.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
9) The comedian
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
10) Twister
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
11) Skylark
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 5
Publisher
Sarah Productions
Pub. Date
2002, c1992
Edition
Gold Crown collector's edition
Language
English
Description
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.