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1101) The amazing Spider-Man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When a vintage B-29 bomber strays from its course over the Pacific, its crew--a highliving pilot, a prim missionary and two stowaway orphans, and a plane full of animals--is forced to beach it on an unmapped tropical island. Stranded, they plot their way back to civilization.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Suzi Eszterhas knew that she wanted to be a wildlife photographer from the time she was a small child. She got her first camera when she was six and proceeded to take pictures of her cats in her backyard, pretending that they were lions on the savanna or tigers in the jungle. In this book, Suzi will talk about her dream, and about how it isn't like what she thought it would be when she was a kid - ie, it's not glamorous and it's a lot of hard work,...
1105) Daughter from danang
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial "all-American girl", hailing from small town Pulaski, Tenn. But her birth name was Mai Thi Hiep. Born in Danang, Vietnam in 1968, she's the mixed-race daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. Fearing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For the five years between 1908 and 1913, DW Griffith directed some 450 films for the Biograph Company, delivering at a rate of two or three films per week. These films, one and two reels in length, are sometimes regarded as apprentice works, films in which Griffith borrowed, invented, and perfected the forms and techniques that he later used to such memorable effects in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920), Orphans...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins. 'Be thankful', she was told; surely her life in Sweden...
1108) In A League Of Their Own
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN follows the fortunes of the first all-Aboriginal Australian Rules football team to enter a mainstream AFL-affiliated competition, through their first bone-jarring season. After 30 years of running their own competition on a remote island community north of Darwin, the Tiwi Bombers have finally been accepted into the AFLNT to compete in the Big League. When they ran out onto the oval for the first time they were representing...
1109) Thing With No Name
Publisher
Perinspire Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of two HIV+ Zulu women in rural South Africa, their struggle to survive, and the clash of tradition with treatment in a growing, yet unspoken epidemic.. Putting a face to the magnitude of suffering caused by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa — more than 5 million Africans are currently infected — Thing With No Name follows two women through a course of antiretroviral drug therapy. The film is set in the mountains of KwaZulu...
1110) The road home
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sent from Michigan to Pennsylvania, Lena Rose Schwartz grieves the death of her Amish parents and the separation from her siblings. But life in Lancaster County won't be forever. Once her beau proposes, she will return to her family. However, she soon discovers that Lancaster holds charms of its own. Is she willing to open her heart to new possibilities? Lena Rose Schwartz hadn't planned to leave her Old Order community in Centerville, Michigan. But...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For the five years between 1908 and 1913, DW Griffith directed some 450 films for the Biograph Company, delivering at a rate of two or three films per week. These films, one and two reels in length, are sometimes regarded as apprentice works, films in which Griffith borrowed, invented, and perfected the forms and techniques that he later used to such memorable effects in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920), Orphans...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa Rica, teaching English in rural Thailand, and caring for orphans in India. There's a name for this kind of endeavor--voluntourism--and it might just be the future...
1114) Moriarty the patriot: 1
Author
Series
Moriarty the patriot volume 1
Publisher
Viz Medic, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class caste system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles...
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