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(0)Vanessa Williams
Author
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From singer, actress, and dancer Vanessa Williams comes a sweet, sparkling story about a young girl whose beloved pet fish has wonderful, magical powers. She gives me bubble kisses, bubble kisses as she swims by in the water. She never misses with her bubble kisses. And I'm so glad I got her. A young girl adores her goldfish, Sal. But Sal is no ordinary pet: while she can't fetch a ball or curl up on a lap, she can give bubble kisses that transform...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Elmo and his beloved blue blanket are inseparable. When Oscar carelessly tosses the fuzzy blanket into his trash can, Elmo dives in after it. He is suddenly plunged into Grouchland - the land of Grouches, stinky garbage and the greedy Huxley who hasn't learned how to share.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Kim Cattrall, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Tim McGraw team up with expert historians and genealogists to learn surprising, possibly life-changing truths about their ancestors and themselves. Also included are episodes featuring Steve Buscemi, Lionel Richie, Rosie O'Donnell, and Ashley Judd.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It's high noon on Wisteria Lane as a brand-new rival stirs up even more excitement, deceit, and romance in the neighborhood. Lynette gets jealous when Renee starts spending time with Tom, and Bree finds herself falling for Keith. Meanwhile, Gabrielle makes a shocking personal discovery, Susan copes with a life-threatening event, and a mysterious shooting has everyone on edge.
9) Eraser
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
John Kruger is a U.S. Marshall who 'erases' the lives and identities of people entering into the Witness Protection Program. His newest charge is an executive who has stumbled upon a deal to put a new superweapon into the wrong hands. It's a do-or-die assignment. Kruger plungs from an airplane after his parachute; turns ravenous alligators into instant luggage; outbrains ultratech security; and knocks out killers with hyper-velocity weapons.
10) Mid-century
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
11) Soul food
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.
12) Hoodlum
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A gangster refuses to let others into his numbers racket. Set in Harlem during the 1930s.
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When Hannah Montana shows signs of forgetting her roots as Miley Stewart, her father Robbie Ray puts his foot down. Miley has always strived to live a relatively normal teenage life, but when late stage entrances, exclusive shopping trips that end in brawling catfights, and ditching friends and family in favor of Hannah appearances become commonplace, Robbie Ray gives her a dose of hometown reality at her grandma's in Crowley Corners, Tenn.
14) Candyman
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A search for dissertation material leads a graduate student to an old tale about a slave spirit said to haunt a notorious housing project. Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror. Of course, Helen doesn't believe all this stuff, but the people...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sent to the seaside to stay with relatives for the summer, Anna strikes up a friendship with Marnie, who lives there in an old mansion surrounded by marshes. As their friendship grows, so does Anna's curiosity about the truth surrounding her new friend.