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"Calvin Trillin can write just about anything - and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. He has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in Americ...

Busytown is an enchanting place that's abuzz with energy and life. Always concerned for each other, the residents of Busytown make time for a song and a smile. Includes all 65 episodes from 5 seasons of the television program.

This story is based on events which occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the to...

A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.

Last of the belles: The romantic story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife Zelda while in the Army.

Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground box...

Lifelong friends travel to Key West, Fla., to be bridesmaids in a college girlfriend's surprise wedding. Over the course of one outrageous trip, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past resurfaces, and there are enough sparks, sex and romance to change all of their lives in unexpected...

This fun-filled collection of stories, each of which can be read aloud in five minutes, is the ticket to Busytown, where kids will meet such friendly characters as Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, Sergeant Murphy and others.

After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew heads toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin are facing the problems of waning supplies and crushed morale. Along the way they have to deal with the cr...

At the end of the nineteenth century, Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.

A legion of superheroes, the likes of which mankind had never seen, must band together under the leadership of Allan Quatermain to save the world from "The Fantom" who is threatening to launch a global Armageddon.

Lifelong friends travel to Key West, Fla., to be bridesmaids in a college girlfriend's surprise wedding. Over the course of one outrageous trip, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past resurfaces, and there are enough sparks, sex and romance to change all of their lives in unexpected...

Serial killers Mickey and Mallory go on a cross-country killing spree that elevates them from fugitives into media celebrities. A satire of the media, public opinion, and the modern attitude toward violence.

An adaptation of Richard Wagamese's award winning novel, this moving and important drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada's Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous people.