Paul Winfield
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On the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their destination is desolate Pariah, Texas - Mouse's home once, and still home to his hated stepfather. Encountering violent and unexpected threats, Easy and Mouse forge bonds that will link them in the decades...
2) Sounder
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of a black sharecropper family living in Louisiana during the Depression. The father steals food for his family and is sent to prison. While he is in jail the mother provides love, security and strength at home. The oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns home.
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The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan -- a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth -- is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
5) King
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2 videodiscs (271 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A powerful portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and events of the Civil Rights Movement leading up to his assassination.
6) Sounder
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Story of a black sharecropper family in Louisiana during the Depression. A father steals food for his family; his wife provides love, security and strength while he is in prison; and their oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kids learn biblical values as they discover the truth about God's love for every person. The following great stories make this fun-loving series entertaining and educational: The Not So Golden Calf; The Rest Is Yet to Come; A Life and Seth Situation; Stolen Jewels Stolen Hearts; and Toying With the Truth.
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Magic School Bus volume 7
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English
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Ms. Frizzle's class learns all about color, light beams, reflection and refraction in this dazzling episode inside a light-powered pinball machine!
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Magic School Bus volume 1
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English
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The principal, Mr. Ruhle, leaves his beloved chicken, Giblets, in Dorothy Ann's care. The Friz takes the class on a field trip to see how eggs are made.
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Magic School Bus volume 8
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English
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Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses"--Container.
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Magic School Bus volume 13
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English
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When Ms. Frizzle shrinks the class and sends them inside the computer for a guided tour, everything goes haywire. How the CPU will they solve this problem?
13) Damnation Alley
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1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After a horrific nuclear assault, three soldiers band together in a special all-terrain land cruiser and head for Albany, NY, the only American city to be spared in the attack. As they travel through the post-nuke wastelands, they pick up a beautiful woman and an incorrigible teenager while battling mutant insects, packs of violent survivors, and brutal electrical storms that savage the already barren plains.
15) Sounder
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Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
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Magic School Bus Super Sports Fun volume 5
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English
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Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
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Magic School Bus Space Adventures volume 3
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English
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Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
18) Big Shots
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Ivan Reitman, producer of National Lampoon ’5 Animal House and producer/director of Ghostbusters, brings you Big Shots, a slam-bang comedy-adventure with a heart as big as Chicago. It centers on the unlikely but very special friendship that develops between two 11-year-old boys. Obie is a kid from the lily-white suburbs struggling with the recent death of his father while Scam is a product of the inner city, Streetwise but equally alone. Together...
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