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Series
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
By the time she published "Silent Spring" in 1963, Rachel Carson had suffered a bout with cancer and the admonishment of friends who tried to convince her that a book on the chemical poisoning of the environment was too depressing for anyone to read. When "Silent Spring" was published, Carson was viciously attacked. Huge sums of money were spent to discredit her. The smear campaign backfired. The book sparked a revolution in government environmental...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
They are the voices behind the greatest rock, pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now, in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, and more.
3) War, Inc
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. vice-president. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growning demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show producer in order to pull off his current hit. He has to do all this while maintaining his...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux volume 21
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Dave Robicheaux is haunted by the sudden loss of his beloved wife. When he discovers that he may have committed the homicide he is investigating, the death of the man who took his his wife's life, he has to work to clear his name and make sense of the murder.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. Isaacson also describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age.
8) Yogi bear
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Everyone's favorite pic-a-nic basket-stealing bear brings his meal-mooching ways to movies in this live-action/CG-animated adventure. Jellystone has been losing business, so conniving Mayor Brown has decided to shut it down and sell the land. Faced with the loss of his home, Yogi must prove he really is 'smarter than the average bear' as he and Boo Boo join forces with Ranger Smith to find a way to save the park from closing forever.
9) The courier
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A specialist carrier is hired to deliver a mysterious case to the underworld's most dangerous hitman.
11) Time bandits
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A young boy escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon, but the Evil Genius is watching their every move!.
12) 1st case
Author
Language
English
Description
"Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeted young women through a sophisticated messaging app." -- Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Set in the rolling hills of Bear Country, this animated comedy stars a fun loving family of honey Bears whose love, loyalty and humor allow them to overcome any obstacle that finds its way down to their sunny dirt road. The funny, familiar experiences of this bear family instill timeless life lessons and reflect the traditional community values of country life. Enjoy this special collection with over two hours Brother Bear fun!
15) Pinocchio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a billionaire heiress connects a recent high-profile murder to an unsolved killing from fifteen years earlier, LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker schedules an interview with a detective from the first case, only to learn of the man's suspicious suicide, which prompts his collaboration with his wife and daughter to solve the case.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 97
Publisher
GPN
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A reading of the book, "If you give a mouse a cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond. Discusses chain reactions from a bowling alley, leading into the reading of the main story. Then it's off to a factory where bowling balls are made and a domino expert demonstrates how he designs chain reactons as he sets up a domino art event. Reviews: "This is the key to the kingdom" by Diane Worfolk Allison, "The house that Jack built" illustrated...
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