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English
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Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
Publisher
Britisch Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The world's longest-running sitcom returns with two seasons of hijinks from everyone's favorite geriatrics! The lure of Georgian silver prompts the boys to scour the canal in a homemade glass-bottomed boat, and chaos ensues when Compo smuggles a dog into the hospital to cheer up an old friend. At Seymour's urging, Compo and Clegg try their hand at skiing on trays, and a Welsh ferret in Compo's care has an eventful day out.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In the world's longest-running sitcom, Britain's oldest (if not wisest) adolescents uncork a barrelful of laughs and make a toast ... to life! It's Christmas Day, and the usual festivities are underway. For Foggy, Compo and Clegg, the holiday is no exception for wild adventures, gross misunderstandings, and as always, good old-fashioned fun. Whether Compo decides it's time to buy a skateboard, or Foggy deciding to start Christmas shopping early in...
Publisher
[British Broadcasting Corp.]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The world's longest-running sitcom is back with more adventures from everyone's favorite geriatrics! Soon after Foggy leaves for Bridleton to inherit his uncle's business, Seymour Utterthwaite arrives on the scene in the wake of a self-propelled wheelbarrow, the first of many wacky inventions to leap from the mind of this retired headmaster. Clegg takes Compo and Seymour on a sentimental journey to re-create the times when his old school chums would...
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Compo is just as smitten with Nora as ever, so when Smiler becomes her lodger, Compo is left depressed. The trio tracks down one of Compo's old friends from school, hoping to cash in on an old debt. Foggy also has his inventor's cap back on this season. He creates a chair lift to get up the hills and a pole vault to help Compo hang a washing line for Nora, but as usual, his brilliant ideas lead to a few mishaps along the way. Finally, in the Christmas...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This season, the boys stage a stag night for the ages, have their wires crossed in a haunted wood, and flirt with the law in more way than one. In other misadventures, Clegg gets on the wrong track with a new bike, the roof caves in on Smiler₂s dating plans, and Howard₂s new car drives everyone mad. The group gets handsy reaching out to aliens, while Alvin and Howard nearly eat crow in a country race." --
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Language
English
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Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Two recently-widowed men come to terms with the deaths of their wives. Reggie Conyngham-Jervis is a wealthy ex-fighter pilot. Roy Southgate is a retired milkman. Both are widowed on the same night. Now this 'odd couple' decide to overlook their differences and move in together. At first the two become friends, until their unlikely relationship is threatened by the arrival of Liz Franks, an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
12) Brief encounters
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With a touch of glamour, gutsy humor, and an overwhelming desire to improve their lot in life, four women strive for happiness and fulfillment. In early 1980s England, Steph, Pauline, Nita and Dawn wrestle with the pressures of family, husbands and making ends meet. However, a chance meeting between Steph and Nita is destined to kick-start a transformation for them all as they grasp the opportunity to become Ann Summers (lingerie and sex toy) party...
13) Wild child
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Poppy is an LA teen diva who does what she wants, whenever she wants. But after an over-the-top prank pushes her father one step too far, she finds herself shipped off to the one place where everything will change: a British boarding school. Finding herself in a foreign world of early curfews, stern matrons, and mandatory lacrosse, Poppy realizes that she has finally met her match: a school of British girls who won't tolerate her...
14) Howards End
Language
English
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Description
Two sisters have encounters with a wealthy family. The younger sister, Helen, is rejected by the son of the wealthy family. The older sister, Meg, becomes a good friend to Ruth Wilcox, the wealthy mother of the son who rejected her sister. Ruth's most cherished possession is their cottage at Howard's End. She wishes fervently that Meg could live there, as they are kindred spirits. Over the course of years, Meg marries into the wealthy family, but...
15) Skins: Volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Follows a group of raucous teenagers who get high, get drunk, get laid and then, get up for school. Tony is the best looking boy in town. Sid is his sidekick who is less successful with the ladies, that is until bonkers anorexic case Cassie turns up. Sid's in love with Michelle, the school hottie, who goes out with Tony. Jal is a sassy musician who likes to party with Chris, Maxxie and Anwar." --
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.
Vanity dies hard: In the town of Salstead, the lives of two friends seem to take different trajectories....