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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
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sentient AI determines that all humans must be eliminated as the root of climate change and leaves a woman named Sen as a "witness" to record her observations on the end of humanity as the world begins to rewild.
A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel--only for it to fall in love with the novel's subject, Sen, the last human on Earth. Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental...
4) 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.
5) 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...
6) Project: ALF
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Captured by the Alien Task Force, ALF was rescued by two officers who found out that the project shall be canceled - and also ALF.
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.
9) Robots
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charles is a womanizer while Elaine is a gold digger. The duo learn humanity when forced to team up and pursue robot doubles of themselves. Based on the short story "The Robot Who Looked Like Me" by Robert Sheckley
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) Forbidden World
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!
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you get trapped inside a TV broadcasting building during a zombie apocalypse? Write a song about it of course. Four music obsessed teens are on a mission to win an underground radio station competition - so the end of the world will have to wait.
15) Linoleum
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the host of a failing children's science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.
16) 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
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
"The Brother" (Joe Morton) is an alien and escaped slave on the run from his home planet. After he lands in New York City, he tries to adapt to life on the streets of Harlem. Although the Brother is mute, he does have great abilities at fixing machines, and he gets a job. As the Brother tries to blend in with his new culture, he finds an apartment and gradually makes friends. Meanwhile, he is pursued by two agents from his home world who are intent...
18) Viking
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
A high-school gym teacher seizes the opportunity to revive his dream of becoming an astronaut. VIKING is a beautifully absurd, allegorical comedy about a Mars-bound crew... at least, about the volunteer B-team mirroring their mission here on Earth.
19) Country Gold
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this fantasy comedy, two country-music legends meet for one wild night in Nashville, 1994: Troyal, an up-and-comer from Oklahoma who likes his steaks well done, and the washed-up, viper-tongued George Jones, who will be cryogenically frozen tomorrow.
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Imagine if Troma Films had been hired to make a Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning kids’ show, and if you have some idea of the unspeakable strangeness of VISITORS FROM THE ARKANA GALAXY, a truly gonzo Croatian sci-fi / fantasy about a struggling writer, Robert (Zarko Potocnjak), who dreams up a story of gold-skinned alien androids named Andra, Targo and Ulu from a distant planet. Incredibly, his fictional alien creations become reality, causing...
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