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Richard Thomas
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English
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The story relates how a young couple, Richard (who narrates) and Keri, accept a position to care for a lonely widow, Mary Parkin, in her spacious Victorian mansion. As Christmas draws near, Mary becomes anxious about Richard's obsession with success and his failure to make time for his family. She urges him to reconsider his priorities, but he is always too busy to heed her advice. It is only when Mary is on her deathbed and her secret sorrow is revealed...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and undercover KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments grow more deadly, their family is in more danger, and their loyalties are tested like never before.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Working with conservationists, animal sanctuaries and scientists from around the world, the filmmakers present stories of animal reunions which show that their actions, gestures and perceived intimacy all beg questions about the capacity for animals to remember, feel devotion, longing, happiness, contentment and even love, by displaying their capacity for emotional connections with other animals and human beings.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Craig is an eight-year-old cancer patient who, during the course of his treatment, manages to shock the world by breaking the Guinness World Record for receiving the most get-well cards. A heartwarming story of love and faith in the face of death.
11) Annie's Point
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish, that she set his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. When her son Richard refuses to let his mother make the two thousand-mile trip, she takes off anyway with her free-spirited granddaughter in tow.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The Christmas box: A story of gifts, angels and love and an up-and-coming entrepreneur and his family who move into a mansion with a wealthy, but cold widow. Through a series of dreams and other "angelic" experiences, the young man begins to open his mind and his heart to the woman's sadness.
Timepiece: This follow-up of "The Christmas Box" begins on the wedding eve of Richard's daughter, Jenna, when he gives her Mary's rose gold watch and tells...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
Language
English
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Description
A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but he's not clowing around. Instead, he terrifies youngsters and brings some to their untimely doom, until some wily kids fight back. The evil resurfaces 30 years later: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And friends who vividly remember youthful terror reunited to battle it.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Through tests, tears, and triumphs as a fire drives the Waltons from their home, John-Boy becomes a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, and Jim-Bob discovers a fact about his birth, all while Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world.