Sissy Spacek
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Animated versions of three popular children's books. There's a nightmare in my closet: Convinced there's a nightmare lurking in his bedroom closet, a brave young boy decides to confront it. Imagine his surprise when learns even nightmares need friends. There's an alligator under my bed: When a little boy's parents refuse to believe there's an alligator under his bed, there's only one thing to do; make a "gator-tricking" trap to lure the critter away!...
42) Prime cut
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A Kansas City mobster uses a meat processing factory as a front for his drug and prostitution business. There, gangsters are ground into sausage, and women are sold like cattle. Things change, however, when Chicago tough guy Nick comes to town.
43) Hot rod
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"Rod Kimble [is] a stuntman with a fake mustache and a dream. Rod has never landed a jump without wiping out. His family and friends think he's a joke. And, to top it off, his stepfather Frank uses him as his own personal puncing bag. But he's not going to let a few minor problems keep him from the biggest stunt of his life!"--Container.
44) 3 women
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Criterion collection volume 230
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English
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In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines. But Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than could be imagined.
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The fisherman and his wife: The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted to them by an enchanted fish.
The talking eggs: A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror.
“A master storyteller.” —The...
“A master storyteller.” —The...
48) 'Night, mother
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"Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning play, an epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son decides to take control the only way she can -- by taking her own life. [The] widowed mother with whom she lives, is oblivious to her daughter's depression until she becomes frightfully aware of her plans. The give-and-take makes for a searing family drama that brings to the surface all the love, resentment and understanding between every parent...
49) Gray matters
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Thirty-something New Yorker, Gray shares just about everything with her wisecracking brother, Sam: old movies, swing dancing and--much to her surprise--an attraction to his gorgeous new girlfriend, Charlie. Never having realized she might be gay, Gray's confusion turns to desperation as she follows the "expert" advice of clueless friends, shrinks and strangers.
50) Carrie
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A high school misfit with no confidence, no friends, and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. When her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far, the once shy teen becomes an unrestrained, vengeance seeking powerhouse who, with the help of her special gift, causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone!
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Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 61
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English
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"Abandoned as a baby, twelve-year-old Hollis Woods has been in more foster homes than she cares to remember. Edna Reilly, her dedicated social worker finally places Hollis with Josie Cahill, a retired art teacher whose home is filled with her whimsical creations. Beatrice is Josie's cousin and loyal friend. Josie is delighted to discover that Hollis is also an artist and Hollis responds to Josie's warmth and openness. But she soon realizes that Josie...
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To Kill a Mockingbird--Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much. Go Set a Watchman--Taking place...
56) The ring two
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English
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Hoping to leave their terrifying experiences in Seattle behind them, Rachel Keller and her son, Aidan, move to the small town of Astoria, OR, where Rachel takes a job writing for the local newspaper. When Rachel learns of an unexplained murder, which occurred after a teenager watched a strange videotape with his girlfriend, she suspects her past is following her and she begins looking into the case.
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A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King₂s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.
58) The help
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Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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Based on a true story about a man who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his brother before the man dies. Alvin can no longer drive because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere Lawnmower and plots the 260-mile course from his town to his brothers.