David Hyde Pierce
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Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. John Taylor is a career criminal. John just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. Finding himself on the door step of Wilson posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who's been mugged and lost his luggage. As the evening progresses, we become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be.
2) Hop on Pop
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Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."
4) Fox in socks
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The smart fox uses difficult tongue twisters to get the confused Mr. Knox in trouble with his tongue.
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Milo, a young boy with little interest in anything, takes a trip through the Phantom Tollbooth to the Lands Beyond where he meets an enchanting cast of characters that teaches him the importance of words, numbers, ideas, creativity, and enthusiasm for life. Includes an introduction by Maurice Sendak and "Celebrations of The Phantom Tollbooth" by various authors.
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What pet should I get? This new book by Dr. Seuss about making up one's mind is the literary equivalent of buried treasure! What happens when a brother and sister visit a pet store to pick a pet? Naturally, they can't choose just one! The tale captures a classic childhood moment--choosing a pet--and uses it to illuminate a life lesson: that it is hard to make up your mind, but sometimes you just have to do it! Told in Dr. Seuss's signature rhyming...
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Help little monsters learn to mind their manners! Can Rosita control her emotions and keep her hands to herself? Will Prairie help Cookie Monster master polite table manners and can Cookie stop himself and not gobble all the cookies when a Cookie Connoisseur visits Sesame Street?
9) A bug's life
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Journey inside the miniature world of bugs where an ant named Flik hires warrior bugs to defend his colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers. Bonus title at end: Geri's game (Academy Award, Best Animated Short, 1997).
10) Treasure planet
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Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...
11) Down with love
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A feminist writer in the early 1960's who is promoting her book 'Down With Love' has sworn off love. A New York City journalist thinks he doesn't need love. See what happens when they fall for each other in this old-fashioned romantic comedy.
12) Buttons
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When their father eats so much that he pops the buttons off his britches, each of his three daughters tries a different plan to find replacements.
13) A bug's life
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Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
14) The perfect host
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A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. The two discover just how deceiving appearances can be in this game of cat and mouse.
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Respect for Acting
"This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end."
—Publishers Weekly
"Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill,...
"This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end."
—Publishers Weekly
"Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill,...
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"The hilarious psychiatrist first seen on Cheers make[s] the move from Boston to his former hometown of Seattle. A newly divorced Dr. Frasier Crane finds himself on the radio airwaves as the host of his own call-in advice show. When he's not dealing with the problems of his troubled listeners, he's embroiled in skirmishes at home involving Marty, his retired police detective; Daphne, his father's physical therapist; his younger brother (and rival)...
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9 complete stories at a great price!
Featuring:
Green Eggs and Ham read by Jason Alexander
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish read by David Hyde Pierce
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! read by Michael McKean
I'm Not Going to Get Up Today read by Jason Alexander
Oh Say Can You Say? read by Michael McKean
Fox in Socks read by David Hyde Pierce
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut read by...
Featuring:
Green Eggs and Ham read by Jason Alexander
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish read by David Hyde Pierce
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! read by Michael McKean
I'm Not Going to Get Up Today read by Jason Alexander
Oh Say Can You Say? read by Michael McKean
Fox in Socks read by David Hyde Pierce
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut read by...
19) The terminator
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In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
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"Celebrate Frasier's 200th episode which has Frasier Crane commemorating his 2,000th radio show on KACL in Seattle. But where, oh where, is that one missing tape that would make Frasier's collection of radio programs complete? Martin lands a job as a night-shift security guard while Niles and Daphne must endure an overseas visit from her conniving mother and lecherous brother Simon. And Roz is swept off her feet by a charming and handsome new boyfriend,...