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1) The tempest
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Series
Language
English
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"The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretations. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. In this updated edition, David Lindley has thoroughly revised the introduction and reading list to take account of the latest directions in criticism and performance. Including a new...
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English
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Reptile specialist Schuyler Baines--"the savior of giant tortoises" and the first female director of the Charles Darwin Research Station--arrives in Galapagos full of ides and idealism. But when she becomes aware of an exploding black market that threatens to destroy the islands' fragile ecosystem, Schuyler shuts the industry down, sparking a deadly, survial-of-the-fittest conflict with native fishermen.
3) Wild life
Author
Language
English
Description
"They're walking on the wild side... The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. Maybe it's her unsuccessful research, maybe it's burnout. But when a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting--and disarmingly handsome--visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it. Davy Hsieh's rugged...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go. Includes featurette.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The show reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
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Description
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at PARADISE HILLS, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months. The outspoken...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
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English
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Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
11) The red turtle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
A simple story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. The film brings to life the changing values, conflicts and struggles of a family leaving home.
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Carmen and Juni Cortez are back. Now they are full-fledged SPYkid operatives with the OSS. Together they embark on a mission to a mysterious island to retreive a valuable device, which in the wrong hands could jeopardize the world!
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Two young Englishmen set off on a leisurely sailing holiday in the period before the first World War. The Englishman's life is threatened after an encounter with a mysterious German yachtsman and his daughter off the North Sea coast of Germany.
18) Turks & Caicos
Series
Johnny Worricker trilogy volume pt. 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Worricker after the director of MI5 dies. A conspiracy to turn control of MI5 over to the Prime Minister leads Worricker to the islands known as the Turks & Caicos, where he is persuaded by the CIA to deal with a group of ambiguous Americans attending a high-level conference. At the same time, an old girlfriend, Margot Tyrrell, is being asked to betray her boss in London in order to establish an illicit connection between the prime minister and dark...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
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English
Description
Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla's death. Gilbert is offered a position in New York and he convinces Anne to go with him. Big city life isn't what they expected. After her script is stolen, they travel from New York to the war effort in Europe and they eventually return to Prince Edward Island.
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