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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron fist. He can't show any sign of weakness, as the neighboring Wiley City has spent lifetimes beating down the people of Ashtown and would love nothing more than its downfall. There's only one person in the desert the Emperor can fully trust--and her name is Scales. Scales is the best at what she does: keeping everyone and everything in line. As a skilled...
2) The Giver
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Based on the beloved young adult novel. A young man (Brenton Thwaites), who lives in a seemingly ideal world, must escape after discovering the deadly truths of his community’s secret past.
3) Jules
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
JULES follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls “Jules.” Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Djata is a care-free twelve-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
5) Nightbreed
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When an asteroid hits the Earth, underwater volcanic eruptions risk submerging a riverside town and the inhabitants start to flee inland. The day before leaving, Nian says goodbye to a childhood friend but on her way she crosses paths with some of the town’s residents. Gradually, her memories of the town start to become clearer and clearer in her mind.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jerome Newton, a mysterious and complex personality, appears in New York. Despite his curiously frail physical presence, the strength of his intellect and scientific knowledge appear to transcend contemporary human experience. His inventions are of such originality that they will revolutionize the nation's systems of communication and lead, in approximately three years, to the creating of the largest corporate empire in the United States......
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Part Alien... Part Human... All Nightmare! In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a monstrous genetic experiment is loose and feeding on the scientists who created it. Enter into the Forbidden World - an outrageous, sexy and violent exercise in Alien-like terror!
10) Mimic
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Entomologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) was hailed as a heroine for rescuing Manhattan from a roach-borne pandemic via genetic engineering. Perhaps the applause should have been held, because rather than dying out, her designer creatures are continuing to evolve... and the largest are making hapless subway workers their prey.
11) Next Exit
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a research scientist proves she can track people into the afterlife, two strangers harboring dark secrets race across the country to join the contentious study and leave their lives behind.
12) Body Bags
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A creepy-looking coroner (John Carpenter) introduces three different horror tales involving his current work which are cadavers in "body bags."
Publisher
Troma Entertainment
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
At Tromaville High School, located a stone’s throw from the local Nuclear Power Plant, the students are getting brighter. In fact, they’re beginning to develop a Troma-green glow. Innocent students mutate into sex-crazed psychos, the Honor Society’s turned into carnivorous, kinky cretins, and the slimy monster stalking the hallways isn’t the principal!
14) Little Fish
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The film opens in the midst of a global epidemic: Neuroinflammatory Affliction, a severe and rapid Alzheimer's-like condition in which people's memories disappear. Couple Jude Williams and Emma Ryerson are grappling with the realities of NIA, interspersed with glimpses from the past as the two meet and their relationship blooms. But as NIA's grip on society tightens, blurring the lines between the past and the present, it becomes more and more difficult...
Publisher
Troma Entertainment
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the Tromaville Institute of Technology, where a melt-down prone nuclear power-plant creates a hideously deformed but very positive thinking humongous mutant squirrels and obnoxious talking belly buttons with bad attitudes. In this incredibly bold adventure in gene-splicing, anarchy and terror rule the campus of Tromaville Tech as the students join forces with the subhumanoids to overthrow the insidious and hedonistic corporate slime responsible...
17) Gulliver Returns
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
World traveler and adventurer Gulliver is invited to return to Lilliput, the town he previously saved from the enemy fleet of Blefuscu. But when he arrives, he finds indignation, panic and a hopeless crowd, as the King of Lilliput told his people that the legendary Giant Gulliver was returning. Instead, they discover an ordinary man, when the whole town had prepared to welcome a giant. Meanwhile, the invincible Blefuscu armada is at the gates of the...
18) Galaxy Of Terror
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Neurotic astronauts (Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston) face a giant worm and other monsters on a distant planet.
19) Let's Be Evil
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Desperately in need of money to care for a sick parent, Jenny (Elizabeth Morris) takes a job supervising children at a learning center for gifted students. But when she and two other new employees are ushered into a maximum-security underground bunker where eerily robotic children are outfitted with augmented reality glasses, Jenny finds herself thrust into a disturbing technological experiment in which she is an unwitting player in a terrifying virtual...
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