Ron Rifkin
1) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
3) Dragonfly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Joe, is a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams,...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A botanist has spent three years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest adventure of all with only two drone robots to keep him...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a ferocious hand-to-hand fight left Sydney on the floor, unconscious, she awakens to find boyfriend Vaughn waiting for her at a safe house. According to Vaughn, Sydney has been missing for over two years, and he is wearing a wedding ring. Syd must now adjust to a world that seems upside-down. Will is in the witness protection program; Irina is on the run; Jack is being held in a federal detention facility; Dixon is now director of the division;...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Sydney Bristow returns to settle the score once and for all. Experience the stunning action as Sydney discovers that she is pregnant with Agent Vaughn's baby, and tragedy strikes before he can reveal more about his secret past.
12) The Majestic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter settles into his life at the Majestic theater, as Luke Trimble,...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Another Mister Sloane: A Sloane impersonator has kidnapped a nuclear physicist and is close to obtaining the transformer coil necessary to successfully complete the Rambaldi experiment. Now the APO team must put their trust in the real Sloane, the only man who can anticipate the enemy's next move.
Entire fourth season of the television program about Sydney Bristow, a college graduate and international spy.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, and others.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Famous comedians during the vaudeville era, Lewis and Clark couldn't stand each other off-stage, though, and haven't spoken in over 20 years--so when Ben, Willy Clark's nephew, wants to feature the duo on a variety show that he produces, Ben must convince the crotchety old comedians to put aside their differences before the big show.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
A holocaust survivor, overcome by the grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son, who also works in the company, grows frustrated with his father's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm.