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1) The odyssey
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"Homer's ODYSSEY is the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus and his eventful voyage home after the Trojan War. The hero and his crew escape a man-eating cyclops and, having angered the sea-god Poseidon, are then beset by storms and blown to an island where a witch transforms the sailors into pigs. With his fleet destroyed, Odysseus is held captive for seven years by the nymph Calypso, who offers him immortality if he will stay with her. But the desire...
2) The odyssey
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Sterling
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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A retelling in graphic novel format of Homer's epic. The Trojan War raged for ten years until the Greek armies triumphed. But the victors were cursed by jealous gods and set out in stormy seas to face their fates. But more than storms and treachery, gods and mosters is needed to keep King Odysseus from returning home.
Publisher
Media Policy Center
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
The Opioid Epidemic is the worst man-made epidemic in the history of our nation. More people die each year from an opioid overdose than in automobile accidents. The statistics are staggering. This episode traces how an aggressive pharmaceutical mass marketing campaign for the new drug OxyContin mislead doctors and the public into our current crisis of death and addiction. The FDA and healthcare organizations became co-conspirators in endorsing long...
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Dirk Pitt adventure volume 17
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English
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Underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew investigate a black tide infesting the ocean off Nicaragua, a study complicated by the discovery of a mysterious artifact, a powerful storm, and a conspiracy.
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For eons, the city of Troy -- whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer’s Iliad -- was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts -- tools of war -- dating back...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his...
10) Odyssey Magazine
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Mindful Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd
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English
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Odyssey Magazine publishes content to nourish, uplift and inspire, exploring all aspects of holistic and conscious living, the joy of living authentically, integrative approaches of complementary healing, spirituality, metaphysics, the intuitive arts and our integral connection with nature, planetary wellbeing and the mysteries beyond.
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WITH 50 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE, NELSON DEMILLE IS "A TRUE MASTER." - DAN BROWN
It started as a simple spy hunt. It became a desperate battle to save the West.
For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole — code-named Talbot — inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the...
It started as a simple spy hunt. It became a desperate battle to save the West.
For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole — code-named Talbot — inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the...
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Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...
14) The Odyssey
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This César Award-winning historical drama covers the life of one of history's most famous explorers. Highly influential and a fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau's aquatic adventure covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.. "Sunbeams illuminating tropical fish, sea lions shimmying through a kelp forest -- some of the underwater photography is gorgeous...
15) Shooom’s Odyssey
Publisher
Dandelooo
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
Shooom, a baby owl, hatches just as a storm turns the bayou surrounding her tree upside down. No sooner has she fallen from her nest, then the little fledgling totters off into the mangrove, pushing a second egg from the brood along with her. Come hell or high water, she’s determined to find a mother… even if that mom turns out to be an alligator or a raccoon!
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Beech River Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In 1967, two young Peace Corps volunteers working in southern India attempt a trek to Everest Base Camp in December with sneakers, borrowed backpacks, a rented tent, no maps and only $200 apiece for food, travel, lodging and Sherpa guides." -- Provided by publisher.
18) A Space Odyssey
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Houston, we have a potato. Old Smokey and Josh travel to the final frontier for some spacey spuds. Then they cook up some revolutionary rice, and visit an estate sale to find forgotten goodies.
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century who was born free man. He works as a carpenter, and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by a group of men who ask him to play for them, however, that is not their real intention. They kidnapp him and sell him into slavery. Solomon now has to endure the hardships that he had been previously spared.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
A movie that "packs a lot of laughs and action into a beautifully shot 105 minutes" (Variety), Chinese odyssey 2002 follows royal heirs Princess Wushuang (Asian pop diva and Chungking Express heroine Faye Wong) and future Emperor Zheng De (Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's Chen Chang) as they escape the Forbidden City to taste life among Ming Dynasty China's have-nots. Combining swordfights, slapstick, satire, songs, and genuine sentiment into a lightning-paced...
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