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The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 3
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Mace Carson doesn't consider himself a hero. Back in college, he came upon a woman in trouble and intervened-but he was just one irate Wyoming cowboy with his boots planted firmly on the side of right. Now a successful vintner, Mace is shocked to be reunited with the woman he saved. But it turns out she's in Wyoming on business...a corporate executive representing the company that wants to buy his winery. Only he's not selling....
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[2014]
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English
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Unsupersize Me documents the inspiring story of Juan-Carlos Asse, owner of Zen Fitness, a personal training studio in Gainesville, Florida and his quest to prove that a whole foods, plant based diet coupled with an exercise regimen is capable of remarkably and rapidly improving the health of any and every individual. Asse takes his lifelong passions of fitness and nutrition setting out to demonstrate what he has witnessed in his training studio time...
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[2014]
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English
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Examines the legal struggles and human rights questions surrounding detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba; explores the headquarters of the National Security Agency and the agency's role in protecting the United States; join host Jake Ward as he takes viewers on a tour of some of the current off-the-record projects that exist in the United States; details the United States Secret Service; follows DEA agents and undercover operatives as they...
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2019.
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From the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, cannabis legislation in America and racism have been inextricably linked. In this searing nonfiction graphic novel, Box Brown sets his sights on this timely topic. Mexico, 1519 CE. During the Spanish conquests Cortés introduced hemp farming as part of his violent colonial campaign. In secret, locals began cultivating the plant for consumption. It eventually made its way to the United States through...
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[2018]
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The energy released when volcanoes erupt, engines combust, or bombs explode both thrills and fascinates people. But this power also kills. Eruptions and Explosions: Real Tales of Violent Outbursts recounts the history of five blowups that continued to rattle the world long after the smoke had cleared and embers cooled. For example, in 1815, a mountain in Indonesia called Tambora erupted. This volcano unleashed a monstrous cloud of ash and gas into...
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2022.
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"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...
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[2020]
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English
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New threats rock the Dawn of X! Reunited for the very first time, and it feels so good - Cable meets Deadpool! Meanwhile, Russia is working to undermine Krakoa - and Beast wants Colossus on X-Force's side as the drumbeats of war begin to sound! A prison riot is quickly turning into an escape - good thing the Children of the Atom are on the case! When EMPYRE collides with the X-Men, prepare for plant people versus mutant zombies! The always-unpredictable...
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[2018]
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English
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Unsupersize Us is the follow up to the award-winning film Unsupersize Me. Director Juan-Carlos Asse takes five subjects from his hometown that all suffer from common health issues and puts them on regimen of a plant based diet and exercise for six weeks. The results are impressive as the five people quickly turn their health around in the six-week period. Asse tests the 5 subjects with many exciting physical challenges throughout the film. The film...
9) Hideaway
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2020.
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Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star--yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors....
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[2010], c1945
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English
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Coast Guard vessel Danmark departs for Denmark. 2. President Truman presents the Medal of Honor to troops. 3. Teams plant underwater demolitions prior to an attack on the Borneo coast. 4. Secretary of State Byrnes reports on the Foreign Ministers meeting in London. 5. Courtroom scenes of the trial at Luneberg, of Nazis who served at the Belsen prison camp; includes scenes of the...
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"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...
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[2010], c1945
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English
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This Universal newsreel focuses on five topics, as follows. Reel 1, With the downfall of Germany, U-boats rise to the surface and proceed to surrender to Allied naval authorities. Reel 2, In Berlin, Air Marshal Tedder, General Spaatz, Marshal Zhukoff and others receive the surrender of General Keitel, Admiral Friedberg, and General Stumpf, which commits Nazi Germany to Allied control and ceases hostilities. Reel 3, Yanks entering the salt mines at...
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[2010], c1943
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English
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Biloxi and the Astoria are launched. 2. Work on a dam on Canada's Saguenay River. 3. Red Cross boxes for U.S. POWs are shipped. 4. Academy Awards are presented to James Cagney and Greer Garson. 5. Burned fir trees are transported. 6. Royal Air Force ground crews in training. 7. Italian women and children return to Italy. 8. Madame Chiang Kai-shek visits Wellesley College. 9. Allies...
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Artemis Fowl series volume 4
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back...and so is his cunning enemy, Opal Kobol. At the start of the fourth adventure, Artemis has returned to his unlawful ways. He's in Berlin, perparing to steal a famous impressionist painting from a German bank. He has no idea that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She's left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put her there, including...
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[2014], c2007
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English
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Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Pakistan) examines the political history of a country that, since 1947, seems to be prisoner to a conflicting geopolitical legacy that hampers political economic development. Political divide stems from antagonism with India, Afghanistan relations, changing alliances and internal Muslim conflicts. Using previously unseen archives and interviews, this film presents key historical figures, including Mohamed Ali Jinnah, General...
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[2011], c2010
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English
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Attitudes about the industrialization of food have changed greatly over the past several decades. What used to be considered a scientific miracle now seems like a horrific joke: piglets being reared in incubators that look like tiny iron lungs; fish raised in tanks of runoff water - and growing at a remarkable rate! - from a nuclear power plant. These scenarios and more are presented in Diet as it traces the rise and fall of processed food, from promising...
17) Making Peace
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This emotionally charged program follows five participants of different ethnic and racial backgrounds through a three-day Unlearning Racism workshop. As the workshop begins, a European-American man offends his African-American workshop partner by making a joke during a one-on-one dialogue. The incident sparks anger among African-American participants, who openly confront the offender. White participants in the workshop express their frustration over...
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[2021]
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English
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Antiques Roadshow returns to Portchester Castle in Hampshire on the south coast of England. Mark Smith is stunned to see a Victoria Cross medal, the highest award for bravery in combat, and hears a story of incredible heroism during the First World War – with the staggering valuation of the humble bronze medal leaving its owners lost for words. Mark Hill covets a rare Dunhill ‘aquarium’ cigarette lighter decorated with moths and a colourful...
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Two billion of us wear them, yet only 20% of us use them for sports. Through interviews with athletes, celebrities, designers, CEOs, and collectors, this program takes an entertaining look at how running shoes have become the footwear of our day and a dominant force in popular culture. Viewers will find out why the shoe was invented and how to get the perfect fit, follow the tale of two brothers and the bitter rivalry that created two running shoe...
20) Cyberchase
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In Coralina, the CyberSquad and Digit marvel at the cybersite's colorful coral reef. Inez hopes to bring back a piece of coral as a gift for her aunt until they learn coral is alive and the reef is under threat! Something is causing the ocean to become hot and murky, and it’s bleaching the coral. With the help of an action hero crab, can the kids find the source of the heat before it's too late?
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