Stanley Tucci
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"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--
"Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York; preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia; falling in love...
4) Blackout
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It was a hot, summer night in the city when the power went out. Everything changed...but that was not necessarily a bad thing. Not normal can be fun. Narrated by Stanley Tucci with music by David Masnfield. Includes an interview with John Rocco.
5) I'm Fast!
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Join the fun as a train pulling a long, heavy load races a speedy, little car across the country through the mountains, through the desert, through a blizzard. Narrated by Stanley Tucci. Directed by Galen Fott with music by David Mansfield. DVD includes a school visit with Kate and Jim McMullan.
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Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century. His remarkable appeal, which continues to this day, was in his seemingly effortless ability to pull an audience in to his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. For over three decades, through radio, film, television, and records he reigned supreme. A brilliant entrepreneur, Crosby played an important role in the development...
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At the center of the circle is a woman ahead of her time. Welcome to the Algonquin Hotel, the hottest spot for thinkers, writers, and satirists in 1920s New York. At the head of your table are such notables as Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, and Mrs.Dorothy Parker, the head of this vicious circle. With a commitment to gathering once a week, this union of intellects delves into deep conversations about everything from social injustices...
10) Doctor De Soto
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A Newbery Honor Book from the creator of Shrek.
"Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work." With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain.
Since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" animals--that is, animals who have a taste for mice. But one day a fox shows up and begs for relief from...
11) The amazing bone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A lonely pig named Pearl dawdles long enough in a field of dandelions to meet a bone who speaks to her.
12) Shrek!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Horribly hideous Shrek leaves home and terrifies everyone he encounters in his search for his equally ugly bride.
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English
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Along with completely original material, this new collection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published short fiction, including "Until Gwen," which was adapted for the stage in 2005 and appears in this book as the play Coronado. By turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these powerful tales journey headlong into the heart of our national myths-and reveal that the truth awaiting us there is not what we...
16) Supernova
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Universal
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
17) Julie & Julia
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.
19) The witches
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[2021]
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English
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The darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world₂s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe,...
20) Spotlight
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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English
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This is the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.--...