Whoopi Goldberg
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Series
Language
English
Description
He's curious; he's cuddly; he's everyone's favorite furry friend. Come along with Elmo and friends as they relive some of their favorite moments from Sesame Street. Whether he's performing a rousing dance number, explaining the difference between light and heavy, singing silly songs or clowning around with special guest star Whoopi Goldberg, Elmo's antics are sure to make you smile!
Author
Language
English
Description
When Madeline tries to stop thieves in The Louvre, she is accused of misbehavior and sent off to a London finishing school to improve her manners. While her friends strive to clear her name, Madeline uncovers a plot to steal the crown jewels and risks all of her progress toward “becoming a young lady” in order to foil the crooks.
10) Call me Claus
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
aLucy is a cranky, volatile producer at a home shopping network in charge of hiring the station's on-air Santa Claus. The "real" Santa, who finds himself at the end of his 200-year contract, must convince Lucy that she is the perfect candidate to fill his shoes.
12) Liberation
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Examines how the Nazi death machine continued to kill people deemed "undesirable" even as the Allies stormed across Europe, liberating occupied territories.
13) Burglar
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A bookstore owner is blackmailed by a crooked cop into commiting a crime.
14) Ghost
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When a young man is murdered, he uses a zany medium to contact his living girlfriend in an effort to discover his killer and get revenge.
Pub. Date
c2013, c1994
Language
English
Description
When young Richard Tyler takes shelter in a empty library, he comes face-to-face with the world's most fearsome literary legends - mighty Moby Dick, treacherous Treasure Island pirates and even a fire-breathing dragon. Richard must conquer his greatest fear or he'll never get back home!
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Marley Corbett is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she' afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humour to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.
18) The stand
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world's population, the embattled survivors struggle to make their way in a post-apocalyptic reality. This 2020 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand frames the eternal battle between good and evil, as embodied by the peaceful prophet Mother Abagail and the menacing presence Randall Flagg, and closes with a new coda written by Stephen King himself.
Pub. Date
c [1999]
Language
English
Description
A wife and mother is faced with rebuilding her life, and her family, after they have been shockingly torn apart. When their son disappears, the pain of a lost child ravages the Cappadora family for nearly a decade. But when he suddenly returns, the entire family must come to a painful reunion of their own.
20) Rat race
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A Las Vegas casino owner desperate for a new 'event' to wager on invents a human race for cash. The laughs roll from start to finish when a group of crazed contestants compete for $2 million in a no-rules, winner-takes-all race.