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1) Little Fish
Pub. Date
2006
Description
After years of treading water in her career and redeeming herself after a troubled past, Tracy Heart sets a goal of owning her own business. Her goals are torn apart by the return of her ex-boyfriend and the criminal intentions of her brother.
2) Escape Plan
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
"...a likably lunkheaded meat-and-potatoes brawler..."--Variety.
"They just don't...
4) Angel
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A man is up against dangerous predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Adventure runs wild when renowned paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy couple on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures. After they are terrifyingly stranded, Dr. Grant soon discovers that his hosts are not what they seem and the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal...
Description
In the year 2047, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. A signal has been detected, and a crew from the United States Aerospace Command hurtles toward the signal's source, in an attempt to find the state-of-the-art spacecraft. What they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror. They must salvage their own lives or they will become ensnared in a new dimension of unimaginable fear.
9) Peter Rabbit
Author
Description
Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden.
Pub. Date
1983
Description
Based on the true story of the world's first superspy, Sidney Reilly, the inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond. Includes all 12 original episodes, and features a bonus documentary examining the final, mysterious days of this legendary figure.
"**** A remarkable dramatic series...Highly recommended. Editor's Choice."--Video Librarian
11) The dragon pearl
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Josh and Ling were expecting a boring vacation visiting each of their parents at an archaeological dig in China. But the new friends soon discover they're right in the middle of an adventure when they find a Chinese Golden Dragon.
12) Daybreakers
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In the year 2019, an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, so does the blood supply. Now the vampires must find a blood substitute before time runs out. Researcher Edward Dalton and a clandestine group of vampires have made a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls.
14) Jurassic Park
Series
Description
Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride, Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award winning visual effects and groundbreaking filmmaking, this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets, and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family, at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel...
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
17) Backtrack
Description
Psychologist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his patients all share a similar, dark secret. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret, which only he can put right.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
19) The dish
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Apollo 11's astronauts will walk on the moon and the huge satellite dish outside a sheep-farming Australian town will beam it globally. But as giddy locals await the moment when the world will rely on them, the dish flatlines.
20) Peter Rabbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Peter Rabbit and his sisters resist a farmer's attempts to drive them out of his vegetable garden.
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