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It tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
Publisher
Scholastic Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
For Josh and Amanda, having to move to the remote, desolate town of Dark Falls was bad enough. But as soon as they moved into Dead House, things began to happen, things their parents could not see - a ghostly shape at the window, a shadow on the wall, the way their dog kept growling at strangers, the quiet, deathly pale neighbor kids. Was it a previous chemical spill that made the people of Dark Falls so strange, or was something far more sinister...
4) Supertato
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Good battles against evil among the aisles of a local supermarket in this slapstick comedy animation series featuring the world’s greatest potato superhero. The supermarket may be closed but everything is far from quiet in the aisles. Evil Pea has escaped her icy lair in the freezer and is determined to take over the store forever. Based on the bestselling books by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, this brand-new action-packed animation series follows...
5) School Life
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A year in the lives of two inspirational teachers in the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland. Headfort School is a revered institution that sees students attend from all over the world. Married teaching duo John and Amanda Leyden have sat at the front of Headfort's classrooms for 46 years. For John, rock music is just another subject alongside Math, English, Scripture, and Latin. For Amanda, the key to connecting with children is through books,...
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they will remember and with no clue how to plan anything for the holidays, Shrek is forced to take a crash course in the holiday. Just when he thinks he has everything for their quiet family Christmas just right, Donkey, Puss in Boots, Gingy and the rest of the gang decide to crash the party.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Based on real events that occured in between 1980 and 1981. Dan Mahowney is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts. As Dan's debts begin to grow into the seven figure...
10) The November man
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Codenamed 'The November Man,' Peter Devereaux is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness Alice Fournier. He soon finds this assignment makes him a target of his former friend and CIA protege David Mason. With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules, and...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A Chicago financial advisor, who has been quietly laundering money for a drug kingpin, must quickly uproot his family and move the operation to The Ozarks, after his partner is caught cheating the business."--Back of container.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a former CIA operative is lured back to his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer. He is a gifted author and university professor living a quiet life teaching psychopathic behavior to packed classes of adoring students. But when tenacious top NYPD detective Lizzie Needham appeals to him to help her catch a serial murderer who is using Dylan's first book as a tutorial, Dylan is compelled by the case and comes...
14) Lawn dogs
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
While bored housewives sleep around, an outsider who mows lawns quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies in this overly privileged society and forges a friendship with a ten-year-old daughter of one of the families.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Multiple
Description
maginary Feasts - explores how in Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags, and Japanese prison camps, starving prisoners shared and recorded favorite meals and recipes. By examining these objects of survival, the film shows quiet acts of incredible resistance. Mina's Recipe Book follows the journey of one of these recipe books. It was one in which Anny Stern's mother, Mina, hand-wrote recipes while imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp in Terezin,...
16) Hospitalité
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
Mikio Kobayashi lives quietly with his wife, daughter, and divorced sister in downtown Tokyo, where xenophobic neighbors insist they attend community watch meetings, and the only recent excitement is the disappearance of a pet parrot. One day Kagawa appears, claiming to be the son of a financier who once helped Kobayashi's company. Kagawa soon ingratiates himself as a live-in employee and proceeds to comically turn the Kobayashi's monotonous life...
17) Listen up Philip
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraordinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. From the Aeneid and the Book of Job to Othello...
20) Six moral tales
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
A law student stuffs himself daily with sweets to be near the girl who works in the bakery; Jerome finds himself in a moral crisis when he is attracted to a teen and her sister just before his wedding; Bohemian Haydée, a collector of men, disrupts the quiet retreat of an art dealer and his friend; A happily married man flirts and fantasizes until an old flame re-enters his life and truly threatens his marriage; The moral code of a pious Catholic...