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Capital crimes series volume 16
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The Washington art gallery owner, Annabel Smith, investigates the blackmarket in rare books. This follows several murders, connected to an attempt to obtain a journal of the voyage of Columbus to the New World
4) High noon
Pub. Date
2002
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This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
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There is an old belief that everyone is rewarded with the heaven or hell that he deserves. For Phil, the nasty, self-centered weather forecaster in "Groundhog Day," that hell reveals itself one morning in the Groundhog Capitol of the USA, Punxsutawney, Pa. He has journeyed there to do a remote broadcast about his namesake, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, and wakes up the next morning in the same bed, with the radio playing the same song, and it...
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A spaceship lands in Washington D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Billy Gray) befriend him...And soon realize that they may be all that stands between...
Pub. Date
2010.
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Where in Washington DC is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Modern Marvels explodes the myth that this 200 year old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books". Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them...
11) Gunga Din
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Three British Army veterans find adventure on India's North-West frontier, helped by a young Indian water boy.
12) Taxi driver
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An unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to take violence. While also trying to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. 40 years later and better than ever. Enjoy this special edition.
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When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exhange for her exclusive story.
14) Shane
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A retired gunfighter defends frightened homesteaders from a greedy landowner. On AFI's 100 Movies list. Adapted from the novel by Jack Schaefer.
15) Toy story
Pub. Date
2001
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Woody, the cowboy, & Buzz, a space ranger, are rival toys until they must work together to escape the toy-torturing boy next door.
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2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Middle schoolers Florian and Margaret are determined to catch a spy who is implicating their FBI supervisor, Marcus Rivers, in a variety of crimes--even if they have to break into, and out of, the Library of Congress to do it.--
Pub. Date
1997.
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The nucleus of the present-day Library of Congress was formed in 1815, when the nation purchased Thomas Jefferson's personal library of about six thousand volumes, which had been organized around the concepts of "Memory" (history), "Reason" (philosophy, law, and science), and "Imagination" (the arts). Today, the Library's vast holdings - nearly 110 million items in formats ranging rom manuscripts to motion pictures and sound recordings - offer an...