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1) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of New York's Columbia University, Dr. Joel Fleischman is looking forward to his comfortable position in Alaska's largest city. He has to repay his medical intern money by serving four years as a doctor there. Upon his arrival, Joel finds himself a fish-out-of-water as he's instead reassigned to the tiny village of Cicely, Alaska where the offbeat locals would love for him to stay forever.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
5) Wow! City!
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Izzy, raised in the mountains, has only one word to describe the people, buildings, cars, and other exciting things she sees in the big, bustling city.
6) Joyful noise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, G.G. Sparrow thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old.
7) Radiant city
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the 'burbs. Venturing through a toybox of cultural references, from Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos, the two create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do.
A Canadian family struggles with existential despair, exacerbated by the drabness of their suburban locale.
8) Zombiekins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The boring town of Dementedyville is livened up by a mysterious stuffed animal called Zombiekins that turns things upside down when exposed to moonlight.
10) The bookshop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Florence Green opens a bookshop in a sleepy seaside town she is met with open resistance by her neighbors who resent her success.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Blocks away from the Capitol and White House stands a tiny storefront church, endeavoring to combat the street violence, unemployment, and homelessness that threaten American families living in poverty. Over the course of a year, this feature-length documentary follows four church members as they work to fulfill their dreams for a better life.
13) Blackout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neighbors gather on the roof after the power goes out on a hot night in the city and start having so much fun not everyone is happy when the lights go back on.
16) Down river
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Detailed essays, extensive photos, and informative sidebars describe life in ancient Sumer, showing the results of significant archaeological digs; also includes a time line and a bibliography.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." –Hebrews 13:14 At the very heart of God's plan for the world stands an extraordinary city. Beginning with the garden of Eden in Genesis and ending with the New Jerusalem in Revelation, the biblical story reveals how God has been working throughout history to establish a city filled with his glorious presence. Tracing the development of the theme of city in both testaments,...
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