LeVar Burton
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English
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Star Trek: The Next Generation meets The Original Series in this week's episode! William and LeVar celebrate their close friendship, and, in between gulps, the two talk about kids, LeVar's family, and Reading Rainbow's return. The actor and educator explains how being raised by a single mother, without the immediate presence of a father figure, didn't limit his ability to mature into the man that he wanted to be. LeVar describes and rates the mystery...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The King James Version (KJV) of Job in a pure voice audio format. Clear and uncluttered, this Bible speaks plainly, making it easier for you to enter into God's Word. Actor, director, producer, and author LeVar Burton speaks new life to the cherished and revered translation.
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English
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The New York Times bestseller: "A superb, thoughtful biography" of the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (David McCullough).
Fred Rogers was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. Through his long-running television program, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their...
Fred Rogers was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. Through his long-running television program, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their...
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English
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"An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work "My Monticello.""--
Johnson's characters traverse Virginia's landscapes, still stained by some of America's most heinous acts, in pursuit of a place to call home. In each story, she reveals intimate moments within the nation's multitudes, featuring unforgettable characters who struggle...
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Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"At the isolated planet of the Ba'kus (a seemingly simple race of people), the crew of the Enterprise has unveiled an unjust conspiracy between the Federation and the Son'a to exile the entire Ba'ku race from their planet. Ordered to leave and ignore his findings, Captain Picard must choose between obeying Starfleet orders or risking his crew, career and the Enterprise to protect the innocent and uphold his Starfleet oath"--Container.
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Powerful beyond measure, the borg, an infinitely commanding civilization of enhanced humanoids from the Delta Quadrant, have for centuries conquered entire worlds. Endowed with the ability to assimilate civilizations and their technologies, these cyborgs grow more potent, more immense and more deadly with each conquest.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Crossing over: A look back at the impact of the book and miniseries on culture and society.
Kunta Kinte and Fiddler lead desperate runaways through a network of safe havens to a getaway boat. They load the runaways into the boat ... but there's room for one more passenger. A choice must be made; a Mandinka warrior can never abandon his friend.
Roots : one year later: "Fresh off the lightning impact of the original telecast, participants recall how...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In season six of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the dangers grew even more dire for the crew of the Enterprise. During a behind-the-lines mission, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) falls into the hands of a seasoned Cardassian torturer. In an attempt to learn the truth about his father, Worf (Michael Dorn) breaks into a Romulan prison compound. James Doohan returns when a transporter malfunction resurrects the original series' Chief Engineer...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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The debut season of a Star Trek television series that took place slightly farther on in the future than the iconic original Star Trek did (a future that, unsurprisingly, bore a greater resemblance to the 1980s than that 1960s-flavored future of Kirk and Spock did), the crew of its U.S.S. Enterprise--especially the intrepid, considerably less feckless and occasionally somewhat more pompous Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart--that came...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Collects the original broadcast episodes from the fourth season of Star trek, the next generation. Picking up decades after Gene Roddenberry's original, it follows the intergalactic adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard an all-new USS Enterprise.
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Distributed by Reel Enterprises
Pub. Date
©2007
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English
Description
"Cult leader Reverend Jim Jones' life is chronicled from his days as an idealistis 1960's activist who runs scams and spends his nights as a womanizer, to a self-proclaimed modern day Messiah. The 1978 mass suicide of 913 followers at the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, in South America is staged in a chilling documentary style of events."--Container
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Paramount
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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Kirk and other members of the crew of the original Enterprise attend the launching of the new Enterprise. The ship receives a distress call and they must try to rescue two ships engulfed in a ribbon of energy. Among those saved are Soran and Guinan. Kirk is killed in the process of saving the Enterprise from destruction. Four generations later, Picard receives a distress call and rescues Soran. He tells Picard about the Nexus, that ribbon of energy...
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nearly 100 stars from television's formative years bring their stories to PBS in a revealing documentary series. Featuring sitcoms, late-night, variety and game shows -- the film melds compelling new HD interviews with archival clips to offer a fresh take on television's first celebrities, with fascinating stories, never-before-seen images and timeless clips that still entertain decades later.
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Star trek the next generation movie collection volume disc 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After an epic battle against the Borg (cybernetically-enhanced life forms), Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise follow the Borg Sphere back into the 21st century to prevent the Borg from contaminating Earth's timeline and preventing Earth's first contact.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his Starship crew battle a chilling new adversary that just happens to hold a shocking link to Picard! In the wake of a joyful wedding between Riker and Troi, Picard receives another reason to celebrate: the Romulans want peace and the captain will be the Federation's emissary. But as the Enterprise heads toward meeting, a brilliant villain awaits-harboring a diabolical plan of destruction and a secret that will give Picard...