Fred Claus

• This is a story you?ve never heard before, a hilarious and heartwarming comedy about Fred Claus, Santa?s brother ? and complete opposite. After growing up in saintly Nick?s shadow, Fred becomes a grouch who?s lost his belief in Christmas. Then, one magical December, Fred flies north (first via reindeer) to find brother Nick is in trouble: a scheming efficiency expert is out to shut down Christmas

Features include:

•MPAA Rating: PG
•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 116 minutes
Vince Vaughn is enormously enjoyable as the titular Fred Claus, disgruntled older brother of the better-known St. Nicholas himself, i.e., the North Pole’s very own Santa (Paul Giamatti). A garrulous hustler running from the emotional fallout of the ultimate sibling rivalry, poor Fred keeps trying to find happiness through one failed scheme after another, pushing away the people! who care about him most. When brother Santa puts the squeeze on him to help out in the toy factory atop the world, Fred turns the place into one big, raucous party. Unfortunately, he’s unaware that Santa and Mrs. Claus (Miranda Richardson) are under tight scrutiny from an oversight committee (represented by a calculating Kevin Spacey) and could be shut down. The film, directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers), gleams and twinkles the way a holiday movie should, and has plenty of fun material for youngsters, including a wacky chase scene in which Fred goes on the run from a half-dozen, angry Salvation Army Santas. But Fred Claus is also supposed to appeal to hip adults with a taste for ironic farce, and on that score the movie feels like a succession of Saturday Night Live skits more than an organic whole. Still, Vaughn holds everything together with a smart, insightful performance that looks deep into his character’s torment--with more than a few! laughs. --Tom Keogh

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Ion Audio Photo, Slide, and Film Scanner (PICS2SD)

• Standalone picture scanner does not require a computer
• Large 3.2-inch color screen for viewing your pictures
• Works with 35mm negatives, 35mm slides, and 3x5, 4x6, and 5x7-inch pictures
• High-resolution 5.1 MP scanner with up to 2500 DPI
• Works with virtually any computer for optional transfer

Studio: First Run Features Release Date: 08/22/2006

For the first time since Hitchcock, moviegoers have embraced a film director whose name is synonymous with his own genre â€" a culmination of the crime, gangster, and film noir genres that both celebrates and comments ironically upon itself. Part of the Ultrascreen series, Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files charts the controversial success of Tarantino's self-directed films and screenplays. From Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Pulp Fiction to Natural Born Killers, Jackie Brown, ! and Kill Bill, Tarantino has created a unique aesthetic drawing on pop-culture icons and ideals gleaned from movies, TV shows, comic strips, and old Top Ten records. This definitive, illustrated book provides the most essential interviews, essays, and reviews of Tarantino's career â€" from geekish video-store clerk to a cult figure of rock-star status. Aimed at a young, literate, moviegoing audience, Quentin Tarantino is a colorful guide to the brash, media-saturated world that spawned the premier filmmaker of his generation. Includes 70 black-and-white illustrations.

Enjoy your old pictures on your digital picture frame. Rediscover your long-lost photo prints, slides, and film negatives with PICS 2 SD. This high-quality scanner transfers your images directly onto an SD card so you can enjoy your old pictures with the latest technology. Thanks to PICS 2 SD's large, full-color LCD screen, you don't even need a computer to make it work! You can view your im! ages on your digital picture frame, your television if it has ! an SD ca rd slot, your mobile phone with a micro SD slot, computer, and other portable devices. Imagine all of your memories with you at home or anywhere you go. PICS 2 SD is fast and easy to use. Just one button starts the scan, which takes an average of one to two seconds! Convenient auto focus, auto exposure, and auto-color balance mean you don't have to be a photo whiz to make great digital images. PICS 2 SD does all the hard work for you. PICS 2 SD has a built-in SD card slot, so you can scan directly to virtually any SD card without needing a computer. You can also connect PICS 2 SD to your Mac or PC and use it as a handy SD card reader. You can drag and drop your pictures from PICS 2 SD right onto your desktop. PICS 2 SD makes high-resolution scans of all of your color and black & white slides and film negatives. PICS 2 SD is portable, lightweight, and has an ultra-small footprint so you can take it with you and scan your friends' and family's pictures too. Start rediscovering! your old pictures today with PICS 2 SD.

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Gerber 45803 Guardian Back Up, Double Edge, Fine Edge Knife

• Double-edge blade
• Non-reflective black blade coating
• Adjustable withdraw tension sheath
• Overall length: 7.28 inches; blade length: 3.41 inches
• Weight: 3 ounces

This is a look into the series that inspired the spinoff THE ZODIUS SERIES now in mass market. SPECIAL NOTE: Legend of Michael the first book in the spinoff series from Sourcebooks is 1.99 for a limited time. This is my New York publisher so I don't control price. Get it before they change it!

Now onward to this story PROTECTOR!
This is full length Novel! Formerly released through Ellora's Cave

Hot soldiers! Hot romance! Heart pounding romance! Did I say -- hot SUPER soldiers?!

Book 1 of a sexy paranormal series with hot super soldiers you don't want to miss!

*4 stars from ROMANTIC TIMES Reviews!
*A full sized novel at 87,000 words
*Includes s! horts excerpts from HOT VAMPIRE KISS and THE STORM THAT IS STERLING after the 87,000 word novel is complete. Total word count is 89,000 words

About the book:

Mason Alexander is the leader of the elite Black Knights, a special forces unit that have all been genetically enhanced. He must lead his team to stop a rogue group of Knights lead by his brother. Holly Hart, a beautiful doctor who has devoted her life to genetic research, is the woman who can help achieve his goal of capturing his brother. Dark danger and hot passion will bring them together, but will Mason’s secrets, drive them apart, before love can save them?

• Book 2 of the Underground Guardians is HEALER. It is also available for download.

Dear Reader:

The Underground Guardians was originally published through Ellora’s Cave many years ago. As time passed, though readers asked for the next book in the series, I knew that there were things I should have ! done differently, that I wanted to do differently. More time p! assed, a nd this series stuck with me. I WANTED to write more stories. So finally, I sat down and said â€" how do I write more? How do I get from where I started to where I want to go? There was only one option. A spinoff series. So I wrote a new series -- THE ZODIUS series -- which debuts in May 2011 with Sourcebooks Casablanca with the book THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL. But these books â€" The Underground Guardians â€" inspired the Zodius series. Without them, the Zodius series would never have taken form. So here is a look into the young writer’s vision into a world that later became the more mature writer’s world. You will actually meet my inspiration for the Zodius version of Michael (LEGEND OF MICHAEL) in this book. In fact, there will be many things in the Zodius series that you will find familiar to the Underground Guardians series, but you will also find many things very different.

I hope this look into the world of the Underground Guardians will intrigue you enough! to make you want to read the Zodius series, starting with LEGEND OF MICHAEL.

Thank you for your support!
Lisa

• Book 1 of the Zodius Series: THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL is available May 1, 2011!

*Book 2 THE STORM THAT IS STERLING out now

*Book 3 THE DANGER THAT IS DAMION -- May 2012 --pre-order available now
This is a look into the series that inspired the spinoff THE ZODIUS SERIES now in mass market. SPECIAL NOTE: Legend of Michael the first book in the spinoff series from Sourcebooks is 1.99 for a limited time. This is my New York publisher so I don't control price. Get it before they change it!

Now onward to this story PROTECTOR!
This is full length Novel! Formerly released through Ellora's Cave

Hot soldiers! Hot romance! Heart pounding romance! Did I say -- hot SUPER soldiers?!

Book 1 of a sexy paranormal series with hot super soldiers you don't want to miss!

*4 stars from ROMANTIC T! IMES Reviews!
*A full sized novel at 87,000 words
*Incl! udes sho rts excerpts from HOT VAMPIRE KISS and THE STORM THAT IS STERLING after the 87,000 word novel is complete. Total word count is 89,000 words

About the book:

Mason Alexander is the leader of the elite Black Knights, a special forces unit that have all been genetically enhanced. He must lead his team to stop a rogue group of Knights lead by his brother. Holly Hart, a beautiful doctor who has devoted her life to genetic research, is the woman who can help achieve his goal of capturing his brother. Dark danger and hot passion will bring them together, but will Mason’s secrets, drive them apart, before love can save them?

• Book 2 of the Underground Guardians is HEALER. It is also available for download.

Dear Reader:

The Underground Guardians was originally published through Ellora’s Cave many years ago. As time passed, though readers asked for the next book in the series, I knew that there were things I should have done differently, that ! I wanted to do differently. More time passed, and this series stuck with me. I WANTED to write more stories. So finally, I sat down and said â€" how do I write more? How do I get from where I started to where I want to go? There was only one option. A spinoff series. So I wrote a new series -- THE ZODIUS series -- which debuts in May 2011 with Sourcebooks Casablanca with the book THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL. But these books â€" The Underground Guardians â€" inspired the Zodius series. Without them, the Zodius series would never have taken form. So here is a look into the young writer’s vision into a world that later became the more mature writer’s world. You will actually meet my inspiration for the Zodius version of Michael (LEGEND OF MICHAEL) in this book. In fact, there will be many things in the Zodius series that you will find familiar to the Underground Guardians series, but you will also find many things very different.

I hope this look into the world of the Un! derground Guardians will intrigue you enough to make you want ! to read the Zodius series, starting with LEGEND OF MICHAEL.

Thank you for your support!
Lisa

• Book 1 of the Zodius Series: THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL is available May 1, 2011!

*Book 2 THE STORM THAT IS STERLING out now

*Book 3 THE DANGER THAT IS DAMION -- May 2012 --pre-order available now

A professional fixed blade knife that takes a mighty serious cut at self defense, the Gerber 45803 Guardian Back Up features blackened--and therefore non-reflective--stainless steel in a 3/4" tang blade. Lightweight and compact, it's effortless to carry and agile to use. The Santoprene-covered nylon handle, and it comes with a patented sheath that lets you adjust the withdraw tension to suit your individual style. Clip it to your boot or belt or your strap, and you'll never be without a reliable back-up.

The double fine-edged, spear-style blade is constructed of high carbon stainless steel and has a! fine tip. The blade measures 3.41 inches and it has an overall length of 7.28 inches and a 3-ounce weight. Made in the USA. Backed by a limited lifetime warranty.

 

The Gerber Guardian Back Up with aggressive lines and matte black paint job (view larger).

Gerber 45803 Guardian Back Up At a Glance: Aggressive lines and matte black paint job Blackened, non-reflective high carbon stainless steel blade Santoprene-covered nylon with soft grip inserts Patented sheath with adjustable withdraw tension Limited lifetime warranty

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Herb & Dorothy

• HERB & DOROTHY (DVD MOVIE)

HERB & DOROTHY - DVD Movie

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Full of It

• 17 year-old Sam (Pinkston) may be the new kid at school, but he's got a sure-fire scheme to fast-track his popularity. Claiming to drive a Porsche, date a movie star and have a rock-star for a dad, Sam soon finds himself BMOC. But when Sam's outlandish fictions mysteriously turn into outrageous facts - he begins to discover that having all your dreams come true. can be a total nightmare! Forma

Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13

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Disaster! The Movie (Unrated Edition)

• In the satirical spirit of ROBOT CHICKEN and TEAM AMERICA, DISASTER! is a Claymation spoof of action blockbusters with bloated budgets. When scientists discover that an asteroid is on a collision course with earth, it's up to Harry Bottoms, Sandy Mellons, and V.D. Johnson to save the world. Featuring the voices of Motley Crue, DISASTER! takes aim at movies like ARMAGEDDON by using lots of scatolog

Genre: Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 6-JAN-2009
Media Type: DVDEven within the subgenre of grab-bag comedy, Disaster Movie sets a new bar for free-associative lunacy. To what degree there is a plot, it's vaguely stolen from Cloverfield: A handful of twentysomethings try to rescue someone in a city assaulted by an incomprehensible threat--in this case, falling asteroids. But that's just a thread on which to string a long and increasingly te! dious series of gestures towards recent movies (ranging from High School Musical to Enchanted to Sex and the City to Kung Fu Panda) and pop culture figures (Amy Winehouse to Flavor Flav to Dr. Phil to, of course, perpetual punching-bag Michael Jackson). No one over 30 will recognize more than a fraction of the movie's references, but the movie's bigger problem is that there are hardly any actual jokes--the filmmakers seem to think that simply alluding to Hancock or Jumper is funny in and of itself... and it just isn't. Disaster Movie will probably appeal to its primary audience of high-school students and repressed frat boys, for whom the mere mention of homosexuality prompts jittery laughter and who find generically pretty girls and studly boys in tight clothing titillating. It's a wasted opportunity; there are moments that, through sheer incompetence and desperation, suggest a surreal stream-of-consciousness. ! A filmmaker like Luis Bunuel or Federico Fellini could have tu! rned suc h raw matter into a satirical aria that would genuinely critique a culture that worships Paris Hilton. Instead, we get this. Featuring, as ever, Carmen Electra.--Bret Fetzer


Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: UrDISASTER MOVIE - DVD MovieSUPERHERO MOVIE (EXTENDED EDITION) - DVD MovieNo Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

• ISBN13: 9780375701214
• Condition: New
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In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem.  After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same! way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book.

By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him.

Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

This book is a lasting testament to his life.We've all got our idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing--a special chair we have to sit in, a certain kind of yellow paper we absolute! ly must use. To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Je! an-Domin ique Bauby used the only tool available to him--his left eye--with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his "locked in" situation as a kind of death, Bauby ignited a fire of the imagination under himself and lived his last days--he died two days after the French publication of this slim volume--spiritually unfettered. In these pages Bauby journeys to exotic places he has and has not been, serving himself delectable gourmet meals along the way (surprise: everything's ripe and nothing burns). In the simplest of terms he describes how it feels to see reflected in a window "the head of a man who seemed to have emerged from a vat of formaldehyde."

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The Godzilla Collection

• This is the ultimate Godzilla Movie Collection. Includes 7 Movies and over 20 Hours of content and bonus features! Gojira / King of the Monsters (2 disc set), Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Godzilla Raids Again, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro Monster, Terror of Mechagodzilla Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR Age:&nbs

Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. This first thrilling, tactile spectacle continues to be a cult phenomenon; here, we present the ! original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American reworking starring Raymond Burr (Rear Window).Gojira / Godzilla, King of the Monsters

The first of the Godzilla movies, and the most somber and serious in tone, Gojiro was originally a 98-minute Japanese horror film, until a U.S. company bought the rights and reissued the film at 79 minutes, replacing sequences involving a Japanese reporter with new inserts of a dour, pipe-smoking Raymond Burr. Both versions appear together for the first time in this release from Sony Wonder.

Godzilla Raids Again

Godzilla is back, and this time he’s not alone! Godzilla and the spiny monster Anguirus are in a heated battle on a small Japanese island. As the threat of destruction mounts, two Japanese heroes muster their courage for the final showdown with Godzilla.

Mothra vs. Godzilla

After a fierce typhoon, Mothra’s gigantic egg washes a! shore Japan. Meanwhile Godzilla reawakens and tramples across ! the land , heading straight for the big egg. Can Mothra save her offspring from Godzilla? Will Japan survive this epic monster battle?

Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster -- A prophetess from Venus foretells cataclysmic disasters! Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan reappear in Japan, wreaking havoc! A giant meteor crashes into the mountains and the three-headed, fire-spitting space dragon King Ghidorah emerges! As the Venusian's prophecies come true, assassins from a tiny Asian kingdom hunt her down, while the Earth monsters must decide whether to settle their petty differences and join forces against the extraterrestrial enemy!

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Invasion of Astro-Monster/Godzilla vs. Monster Zero -- Aliens from Planet X borrow our monsters for a little extermination project, but they've got something else up their sleeves: world domination! Using mind-control technology, these vinyl-and-sunglasses wearing spacemen t! urn Godzilla, Rodan and King Ghidorah loose in Japan, demanding Earth's surrender! It's up to American astronaut F. Glenn, his galaxy-trotting buddy Fuji, and nerdy inventor Tetsuo to break the aliens' hold on the monsters and save our planet from certain doom.

Terror of Mechagodzilla

Evil spacemen from the Black Hole are plotting to flatten Tokyo and build their own utopian city. Aided by deranged scientist Dr. Mafune, the aliens unleash a rebuilt Mechagodzilla and the monster Titanosaurus to do their evil bidding, until Godzilla surfaces to defend his homeland and the earth-shattering destruction begins. Mothra vs. Godzilla

More visually splendid and imaginatively written than the other Godzilla sequels, this (the fourth in the series) starts when Mothra's gigantic egg washes ashore in Japan, having been dislodged from Mothra Island by a hurricane. Two tiny twin girls (sometimes singing like dual-diminutive Dorothy Lamours) from the island come ! to plead for the return of the egg by the greedy business guys! who bou ght it for a tourist attraction, but to no avail. Radiation from nuclear testing revives Godzilla from the earth, who proceeds to threaten the egg and the cities, unless Mothra and his larvae hatched from the egg can stop him. The battle sequences between Mothra and Godzilla, and between Godzilla and the larvae, are spectacularly vivid and colorful. --Jim Gay

Terror of Mechagodzilla

In 1974, Inoshiro Honda, the original and best Godzilla director, returned after a five-year absence to direct this 20th-anniversary commemoration to Gojira (the original Japanese name for Godzilla, before the West Anglicized it). This is the fifteenth film in the Godzilla series, and the eleventh by director Honda. Yet again the aliens (from the third planet of the black hole, whatever that means; they don't really provide directions) stage a takeover of Earth, this time with the aid of Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus (they're just what they sound like). They owe the mad sc! ientist Mafuni for the use of Titanosaurus, who in turn owes the aliens for resurrecting his daughter, Katsura, badly hurt in an accident, albeit now as a cyborg with the ability to control their two mecha-monsters. It shapes up as the fight of the century when Godzilla is pressed into service for our side. The battling behemoths afford the most dramatic and vivid fight scenes in all of Godzilladom in this one. Let's hope the aliens don't win; they're so smug. --Jim Gay

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