Dan
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (28 min., 48 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Hemingway's A farewell to arms, a novel about the tenuous nature of love in time of war told through the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, who meet during World War I.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (28 min., 54 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Wharton's The age of innocence, a novel about the upper classes of New York and the story of Newland Archer's love for Countess Olenska.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (28 min., 59 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Harper Lee's novel To kill a mockingbird, a coming-of-age story about racial injustice and the destruction of innocence.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (40 min., 58 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Leo Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Ilyich, a novel about Christian faith and the nature of life and death.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (38 min., 54 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, a novel about a future American society that embraces hedonism and bans critical thought through reading.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (28 min., 58 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of the novel by Carson McCullers about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (28 min., 58 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby, a novel about the decadence and excess of the Jazz Age told through the story of self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (38 min., 30 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about a poor family of sharecroppers who are driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry during the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (28 min., 43 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Jack London's tale of an unusual dog--part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd--that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (28 min., 58 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Willa Cather's novel about the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land of nineteenth century Nebraska.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures' cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of "Godzilla vs. Kong" with an all-new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence, and our own. This film delves further into the histories of these Titans and their origins, as well as the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while...
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Spengler family returns to where it all started, the iconic New York City firehouse, to team up with the original Ghostbusters gang, who have developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient relic unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
18) Ghostbusters 2
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Ghostbusters' success at saving the city in the last movie did not impress the public, and now they're doing shows at birthday parties. But when a river of goo is discovered underneath the city, they must stop a plot by an evil spirit in a painting.
Publisher
Studio Ghibli
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A young boy named Mahito, yearning for his mother, ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semiautobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.