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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
12083) The fly: 1958 version
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Experimental scientist Andre Delambre attempts to transfer matter through aspace, using himself as the test subject. But things go horrifically wrong when a housefly buzzes into the machine, resulting in two grotesque man-fly hybrids...one of them being Andre! Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, Andre desperately hopes that he, his wife Helene and his brother Francois can capture the other mutant -- the human-headed,...
12084) X-men vignettes
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Behind-the-scenes style stories about the Uncanny X-Men that occurred in between their Earth-saving adventures.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Final days of Planet Earth : Lloyd Walker is an anti-heroic archaeologist who, after stumbling upon an alien conspiracy, becomes enmeshed in an against-all-odds battle to save the human race. From the enigmatic Room 86 to the doomed Pericles space mission, Walker puzzles together clues to reveal the dark purpose behind strange events occurring around San Franscisco. Now, the "keeper of dead civilizations" must rescue mankind from slavery at the...
Author
Series
My hero academia. Team-up missions volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there's just one catch--there's no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team"--Back cover
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Waterworld: In a future where Earth is covered with water, the human race struggles to survive on dilapidated boats and makeshift floating cities called atolls. When a mysterious drifter/adventurer known as the Mariner gets caught up in the struggle between the evil Deacon and a young girl and her adoptive mother, he finds himself catapulted into an explosive war of good vs. evil.
Skyline: It was suppose to be a simple birthday weekend in Southern...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Following Oliver Queen's shocking decision to turn himself over to the FBI and reveal his identity as the Green Arrow to the public, Oliver has spent the past five months in prison while his team was left behind to protect Star City. When a mysterious new Green Arrow appears, and Diggle and Drake leave their costumes behind, Oliver questions what it truly means to be a hero.
12089) Ad astra
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
12090) Alien: Covenant
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When a ship carrying two thousand humans setting out to colonize a distant planet encounters a system failure, they land on a moon and discover a race of hostile aliens.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Captain America teams with the Black Widow and a new ally, the Falcon, in a fight for the future of mankind. Following the cataclysmic events in New York with the Avengers, Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, is living quietly in Washington, D.C., and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the entire world at risk. As the conspiracy...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived. She awakens from the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell deep inside the bunkered catacombs of District 13. Separated from some of her closest allies and fearing for their safety in the Capitol, Katniss finally agrees to be the Mockingjay, the symbolic leader of the rebellion. Still uncertain as to whom she can trust, Katniss must help 13 rise from the shadows, all the while knowing that President Snow has...
12093) Viewfinder
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"A young space traveler visits Earth on a whim and finds a planet empty of people. She happens upon a strange contraption that contains images of what the planet used to be like, and using this viewfinder, she sees Earth as it was, juxtaposed against Earth as it is: abandoned, but still full of amazing things. Her adventure takes her to a museum full of hints about the planet's past and the strange glowing mushrooms that grow everywhere, a library...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Get ready for some serious "slime-time," with the ultimate Ghostbusters collection, containing the original classic Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson) along with Paul Feig's brand-new and hilarious take on the classic, supernatural comedy! This time, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth take the reins when they team up to save Manhatten from a sudden invasion...
12095) 8 movie action pack
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Description
Trancers I: Angel City, 2245. Trooper Jack Deth is battling the last disciples of Whistler, who used his powers to entrance and control his army. When Deth discovers Whistler has time traveled to 1985 and is killing the ancestors of his enemies, he launches a deadly mission to stop a notorious murderer.
Equilibrium: Mankind has outlawed the things that trigger emotion, and to uphold the law, a special breed of police is assigned to eliminate all...
12096) District 9 (Blu-ray)
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
12097) Colossal
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the...
12098) Ready player one
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
DIVERGENT (2 hrs. 19 min.): Divergent is a thrilling action-adventure set in a future world where society has been divided into five distinct factions. Not fitting into any group, Tris (Shailene Woodley), a Divergent, is targeted by a faction leader determined to eliminate all Divergents.
INSURGENT (1 hr. 59 min.): Tris searches for answers and allies in this action-packed second adventure. On the run and targeted by ruthless faction leader Jeanine...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Chewbacca behind bars! Chewie is held captive on the prison planet of Gulhadar, and his cellmate is none other than Maz Kanata! But where is Han Solo, and what happened to the Millennium Falcon? Outnumbered and outgunned, Chewie makes a daring escape! Elsewhere, Greedo is on the run -- and you won't believe who's after him! Now, these two wanted men are on a collision course, and together they just might have a chance to get their hands on Jabba's...