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The complete six part series featuring amazing contraptions from around the world. Wallace and Gromit take an enthusiastic look at some real-life cracking contraptions, from gadgets that help around the home to the mind-boggling world of space travel and much more in between. From their self-built television studio, Wallace introduces films of inventors from around the world, and unveils some of his very own creations.
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AAPI Heritage Month
Aliens
May Books on Tap: Sci-fi
Thomas Ford Library's Science Fiction Book Club Selections
Aliens
May Books on Tap: Sci-fi
Thomas Ford Library's Science Fiction Book Club Selections
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"When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity's vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use. First published in 1898, H.G. Wells's masterpiece of speculative fiction has thrilled and delighted generations of readers, spawned countless imitations, and inspired dramatizations by such masters as Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg. The War of the Worlds is a fantasy that...
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A high society pet mouse is flushed down the toilet and must learn to adapt to life in the sewers of London; when a flying circus chicken lands in an egg farm, the egg farm chickens have great hopes that he can teach them all to fly, in order to escape; with the annual vegetable growing contest close at hand, Wallace and Gromit must solve the mystery of a garden pest that is sabotaging people's gardens.
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It's 'veggie-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood. The two enterprising friends are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition they find that their business is booming. They come to find out that running a "humane" pest control outfit can have its drawbacks. Suddenly, a large and mysterious veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable...
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A Grand Day Out: The adventures of Wallace and Gromit, an inventor and his dog, as they build a spaceship and travel to the moon in search of cheese. The Wrong Trousers: Wallace creates a pair of walking Techno-Trousers for Gromit. A penguin moves in and plots to make off with Wallace's trousers. A Close Shave: Get ready for motorcycle chases, prison breaks, and dog food danger as Wallace and his newfound flock rush to save Gromit and his true love....
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It's 'veggie-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood. The two enterprising friends are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition they find that their business is booming. They come to find out that running a "humane" pest control outfit can have its drawbacks. Suddenly, a large and mysterious veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable...
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Looking for a fast way to earn dough, Wallace decides to make it. Armed with a batch of ovens, an army of robotic kneading arms, and an old-fashioned windmill, Wallace and Gromit start 'Top Bun, ' their new bread-baking business. When bakers suddenly start disappearing, Gromit realizes that his master is in danger as he follows a twisting, turning trail of crumbs to solve a murder mystery.
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Curse of the were-rabbit: It's 'veggie-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood. The two enterprising friends are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition they find that their business is booming. They come to find out that running a "humane" pest control outfit can have its drawbacks. Suddenly, a large and mysterious veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking...
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Christmas Books & Movies
Merry and Fright (SCPL)
OBD Happy Holidays! - Adult
OBD Holiday Mysteries - Adult
Merry and Fright (SCPL)
OBD Happy Holidays! - Adult
OBD Holiday Mysteries - Adult
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"The Holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder--and the brilliant Belgian investigator is quickly on the case On Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family's festivities are shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs--in a locked bedroom--the tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds...
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On a quest for his favorite snack, Wallace takes Gromit on an out-of-this-world adventure in his homemade space rocket to discover if the moon really is made of cheese. Then, Wallace takes in a mysterious lodger, but Gromit's suspicions are aroused when the new arrival starts to show a sinister interest in his master's Techno-Trousers. Last, Wallace and Gromit set up a window-cleaning business, only to find themselves ensnared in a deadly mystery...
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A grand day out: Wallace & Gromit decide that the discerning cheese enthusiast should holiday on the moon. But when they land in their home-made rocket, they discover that a local inhabitant has other ideas.
The wrong trousers: When a sinister new lodger arrives in West Wallaby Street, Gromit is left out in the cold. The conniving penguin plans a daring diamond robbery using Wallace's Techno-Trousers and only Gromit can stop him!
A close shave:...
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"What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind--and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he soon realizes that surviving in this new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids--plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous...
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The world's longest-running sitcom is back with more adventures from everyone's favorite geriatrics! Soon after Foggy leaves for Bridleton to inherit his uncle's business, Seymour Utterthwaite arrives on the scene in the wake of a self-propelled wheelbarrow, the first of many wacky inventions to leap from the mind of this retired headmaster. Clegg takes Compo and Seymour on a sentimental journey to re-create the times when his old school chums would...
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The world's longest-running sitcom set in the glorious Yorkshire Dales is back and the ageing delinquents are up to their old tricks again. There's a case of mistaken identity in the village when Smiler is suspected of being a university professor in disguise. And Clegg is inspired to write his memoirs, prompting him to go in search of a childhood sweetheart but he is temporarily distracted when he manages to get stuck up a tree.
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Written by comedy award winner, Roy Clarke (Keeping Up Appearances) this prequel to the popular and long running comedy series Last of the Summer Wine is based on the diary entries of a young Norman Clegg. The series follows him and his friends in the days leading up to World War II.
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One spring, Mole decides to begin a series of adventures with his new friend, Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank and on an expedition with Toad. Toad decides his new car is more fun and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help. Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence for theft, reckless driving, and gross impertinence. Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and manages to escape. Badger tries to...
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Uncork the aging effervescence of the Yorkshire Dale's famously merry men and women. Sometimes sober, sometimes not, they exercise a suit of armor to get rid of the squeaks, challenges a legless man to a bicycle race, and cross-dress with hilariously disastrous results. Barry misses his midlife crisis. Howard panics at a stern voice from on high. And someone's singing 'Happy Birthday' in the back of the hearse.
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A close shave: Get ready for motorcycle chases, prison breaks, and dog food danger as Wallace and his newfound flock rush to save Gromit and his true love.
A grand day out: The adventures of Wallace and Gromit, an inventor and his dog, as they build a spaceship and travel to the moon in search of cheese.
A matter of loaf and death: Looking for a fast way to earn dough, Wallace decides to make it. Armed with a batch of ovens, an army of robotic kneading...