New Video Group
1) Sister Helen
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen format.
Language
English
Description
In 1986, at the age of 56, Helen Travis became a Benedictine Sister after she lost her husband and both her sons to substance abuse. Two years later, in New York City, she opened a halfway house for recovering male addicts.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting adventure of how America was invented. 'America the story of us' focuses on the people, ideas and events that built our nation, covering 400 years of America history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by History. Sharing their thoughts on the building of America, and what it means to be an American, are a world-class group of individuals including Tom Brokaw, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Buzz Aldrin, Colin...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Presented are stories to help celebrate the American heritage. Stories include Giving Thanks; Hiawatha; Pilgrims of Plimoth; and Lincoln & Douglass: An American Friendship. Bonus features include the popular read-along function, and an interview with Lincoln and Douglass author Nikki Giovanni.
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, but a sly and hungry duckling comes along who also wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird? Help kids enhance reading skills, cooperation skills, and problem-solving skills in an enjoyable and entertaining way! Additional stories include Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity; and Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed.
Language
English
Description
The Living dead: Steed finds a mine of information-- and Emma goes underground. A haunted chapel provides the first clue to an underground (literally!) effort to conquer all of Britain. The correct way to kill: Steed changes partners-- and Emma joins the enemy. Even multiple Steed replicas cannot prevent The Avengers from putting paid to a secrets-for-sale entrepreneur. The hidden tiger: Steed hunts a big cat-- and Emma is badly scratehed. The Avengers...
9) Wild Bill
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Out on parole after eight years inside, Bill Hayward returns home to find his now eleven and fifteen-year-old sons, Jimmy and Dean, abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on. Dean reluctantly forces his dad to stay, but when Jimmy finds himself in trouble with Bill's old drug-dealing mates, Bill has to decide what kind of dad he really wants to be a good one or a free one....
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Children are introduced to the imaginative world of art and how a picture can really be worth a thousand words in the lead story ART. Other stories include I Like Me, a celebration of self-esteem; The Dot, a journey of self-discovery and expression that will encourage everyone to explore his or her own creative spirit; Ish, Roman discovers that creativity is about a lot more than getting things just 'right'; and more.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a remote medieval outpost of Ireland, young Brendan embarks on a new life of adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying a book brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide.
14) King corn
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Ian and Curt, best friends from college on the East coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat,...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Four beautifully adapted stories that encourage a love of reading for the pre- or early reader. From best selling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal comes Spoon. Spoon has always been a happy utensil, but he soon finds he needs the support of his friends Fork, Knife, and Chopsticks.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The classic board game that has been played by over a billion people in the last 75 years, Monopoly is a worldwide cultural phenomenon. In this feature-length documentary, stories are captured about the game and those who play it. Following the colorful players who come together to compete for the title of Monopoly World Champion, this engaging film illustrates how the classic board game became a worldwide cultural phenomenon.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From wildcatters to visionaries, geopoliticians to geologists and capitalists to union organizers, few real-life dramas feature such colorful characters, fluctuating fortunes, and worldwide high stakes as the story of oil. Petroleum was used by the ancients to waterproof Noah's Ark and fuel the lamps of the Temple of Jupiter. But it was in Pennsylvania in 1853 that the first oil well was dug, and an industry born. With the mass production of the...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In a Pickle: Topic: Microbes; Keesha and the class return from vacation to find her prize cucumber has turned into a pickle! Could the Mike Robe gang be to blame? ; Meets Molly Cule: Topic: Molecules; When Wanda s favorite singer, Molly Cule, comes to town and she chooses Ms. Frizzle s class to wash her famous car, the kids discover how to clean the car down to the very last bit. ; Makes a Stink: Topic: Smell; Flora Whiff, the famous expert on...