Hugh Laurie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Offered a large sum of money to perform an assassination, Thomas Lang chooses instead to warn the intended victim, only to find himself on the hit list and up against such adversaries as rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer.
3) Catch-22
Language
English
Formats
Description
**Oscar** winner Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy about a small group of pilots in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. CATCH-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions. Nominated for The UN Award and Best Cinematography...
4) Maybe baby
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam and Lucy are a married couple who seem to have it all. The only thing missing is a child that they both desperately want. Between busy careers and trying to conceive, life becomes completely unpredictable. Now their love for each other will truely be put to the test.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
6) Tomorrowland
Publisher
Disney
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as 'Tomorrowland.' What they must do there changes the world-and them-forever.
"...has grand ideas and gorgeous future-retro designs to spare."--Observer (UK)
"All hands on both sides...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (16 hr., 9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
House finds himself in an uncomfortable position: away from the examination room. As he works to regain his license and his life, his coworkers deal with the staff shakeups, moral dilemmas, and their own tricky relationships with House.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 293 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Slippery is an anxiety-ridden British doctor suffering from all those symptoms and more. His wife has embarked on a new career and perhaps an extramarital affair or two. His three oversexed sons mock him without mercy. And at work he's tangled in red tape and tormented by a flaky colleague.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (972 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intent on escaping the clutches of his indomitable Aunt Agatha and the perpetual threat of wedlock, Bertie once again flees his native England for New York accompanied, as ever, by the unflappable Jeeves. Yet even the waters of the Atlantic cannot keep the witless Wooster safe, and he is soon up to his ears in a frightful tangle of wayward cousins, stolen babies, unwanted engagements and even -- heaven forbid -- his domineering aunt.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Susan Murphy gets turned into a giant monster on her wedding day when a meteorite from outer space hits her. She is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley group of Monsters are called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
13) Hop
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blending state-of-the-art animation with live action, Hop tells the comic tale of Fred, an out-of-work slacker who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny and must take him in as he recovers. As Fred struggles with the world's worst houseguest, both will learn what it takes to finally grow up.
15) Valiant
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Valiant and his feathered friends take to the sky to prove as they work their way into the Royal Air Force during World War II. Together this rag-tag squadron of carrier pigeons engages in an aerial adventures at a spitfire pace. From the first bumbling day of basic training through the final feather-raising mission, the flock of friends swoop their way toward victory. How, against the odds and an evil German falcon, Valiant is called upon for a...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 17 hrs. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gregory House still has the most unapologetically prickly bedside manner ever, but his genius for solving the medical mysteries other practitioners can't has earned him the respect of his team. House's unpredictable cases, from killer germs to killer secrets, strain his already tenuous relationship with his co-workers and put his own health at risk.
17) Stuart Little
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A human family goes to an orphanage to adopt a new family member, a mouse named Stuart, but Stuart struggles to gain the affections of his resentful new brother and the family cat.
Publisher
Universal Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (967 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
House is serving a prison sentence for driving his car into Cuddy's living room, and when his sentence ends early, he finds the Diagnostic Medicine Department has gone through a transition in his absence and he must deal with a new chain of command and personnel changes to his team.
19) The borrowers
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The miniature Clock family has lived with the Lenders for years ... the human "beans" just don't know it. Little things keep disappearing and the "Beans" can't figure out that the Clocks are simply "borrowing household items for their own home within the walls." When the evil, scheming lawyer Ocious P. Potter tries to evict the Lenders from their happy home, the Borrowers try to stop him with a little ingenuity. Suddenly, the toaster's a catapult,...
Publisher
Universal Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (1007 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He's sarcastic, incorrigible, bitter, and in a relationship? Dr. Gregory House has spent his career taking on seemingly hopeless cases, but when his rapport with Dr. Lisa Cuddy changes, he finds himself facing new, and very different, challenges. His team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital also continues to blaze trails as they investigate baffling medical cases involving a religious zealot, a professional bull rider, and possibly even smallpox....