Roald Dahl
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
Language
English
Description
Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (362 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thunderball: Agent 007 travels to Nassau to track down villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who's threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust but not before he feeds Bond to his killer sharks.
You only live twice: Bond meets up with diabolical Ernst Stavro BLofeld, who has hijacked US and Soviet spaceships. 007 must undertake a pulse-pounding race to prevent nuclear war between the superpowers with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Diamonds...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
7 Blu-rays (733 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (64 pages : color ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
Batman: The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Batman returns: While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.
Beetlejuice: The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
24 Blu-rays : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. No: A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
From Russia with love: James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
Goldfinger: While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (approximately 1,048 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The pebble and the penguin: A lovable but introverted penguin named Hubie plans to present his betrothal pebble to the bird of his dreams.
The secret of NIMH: To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
The greatest story ever told: Chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
The black stallion: After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast...