Avi
261) Home of the brave
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen and full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : digital, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a humanitarian mission in Iraq is derailed by an explosive ambush, a small band of American soldiers find themselves fighting for their lives.
262) Venom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Brock obtains the powers of a symbiote, and must release his alter-ego "Venom" in order to save his life.
264) Spider-Man
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
©2012.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bitten by a genetically altered spider, high school outcast Peter Parker gains amazing superpowers and becomes Spider-Man. As Spider-Man, he battles the Green Goblin, a megalomaniacal villain bent on controlling all of New York.
265) The son of no one
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a cop is assigned to the neighborhood he grew up in, an old secret threatens to destroy him and his family.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019].
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Miles Morales, a teenager living in New York, becomes the new Spider-Man, he must team up with Spider-Man counterparts from other dimensions to save New York City from Kingpin.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson presents his views on the future of space travel and America's role in that future, giving his readers an eye-opening manifesto on the importance of space exploration for America's economy, security, and morale.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened thousands of minds to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. But a crucial question remained:...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral...
274) The expendables 2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Church decides to reunite the Expendables, and one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat. Include bonus features.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 263 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When being Spider-Man becomes too much for Peter Parker to handle, he makes a drastic decision to hang up his Spider-Man suit and stop being a crime-fighter. But a new enemy has arisen. A brilliant scientist has been accidentally transformed into a raging monster known as Doc Ock and kidnaps Mary Jane.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spent" is Avis Cardella's timely, deeply personal and shockingly dramatic exploration of our cultural need to spend, and of what happens when someone like herself is consumed by the desire to consume.
278) The Black Dahlia
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. The case...
279) Fantastic 4
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After exposure to cosmic radiation, four astronauts become the most remarkable, if not most dysfunctional, superheroes of all time. Reed Richards is the leader of the group and gains the ability to stretch all parts of his body, he takes the name Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire,...
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (164 pages : chiefly illustrations)
Language
English
Description
An incredibly unique comic book benefit project featuring comic shorts, pin-ups, short essays, and flash fiction, the proceeds of which will be going to the Innocence Project. We've all seen the pictures: a six-year-old Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. marshals on her first day at an all-white, New Orleans school in 1960; a police dog attacking a demonstrator in Birmingham; fire hoses turned on protesters; Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a crowd...