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English
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"An aspiring young chef explores food and adventure, illness and mortality, coming of age and coming out in an inspiring memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyond. Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the season fifteen "Fan Favorite" of Bravo's Top Chef. After the taping wrapped and before the shows aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, which eventually became terminal. Not one to ever slow...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more...
Publisher
Eagle Vision
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
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"[A] unique feature music documentary celebrating a rock 'n' roll icon: Bruce Springsteen. Working with the filmmakers, Springsteen's fans have helped create a film that reflects on their personal insights and experiences to explore what this timeless artist means to them. Their stories are at times touching, at times humorous, at times extraordinary and they all come from the heart. Combined with previously unseen archive footage of performances...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women-Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale-to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families. Through...
5) Caraval
Author
Series
Caraval ; 1
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett...
Publisher
Warner Brothers Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood has touched generations of filmgoers for over half a century. The five-time Academy Award winner has made an indelible mark as one of Hollywood's most iconic actors and insightful directors. In honor of Eastwood's long standing 35 year relationship with Warner Bros. through Malpaso Productions, this definitive collection celebrates Eastwood's entire filmography at the studio from Where Eagles Dare (1968) through Gran...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, the film takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver-tongued pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities, yet have the aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The girl they call "Winnipeg's Sweetheart," Deanna Durbin, captured the hearts of movie fans everywhere with her irresistible charm and golden voice. From her debut film in 1936 to the release of her last film in 1947, Deanna was an international superstar and box-office sensation. Then at the height of her fame, she walked away from Hollywood forever. Now her movie magic lives on in this special 6-film set, The Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Pack. This...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The residents of a small, peaceful Kansas town are suddenly plunged into chaos when a nuclear mushroom cloud appears on the horizon, leaving them completely isolated and wondering if they're the only Americans left alive. But in this time of crisis, as sensible people become paranoid, personal agendas take over and well-kept secrets threaten to be revealed, some people will find an inner strength they never knew they had and the most unlikely heroes...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Little Miss Marker: The adorable child actor single-handedly melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gangsters when she's left as an IOU or marker for a debt. Now and Forever: The irresistible child actor stars with screen legends Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in this endearing tale of love, honor and sacrifice that will steal your heart away; now and forever.
12) The Wolf man
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Upon the death of his brother, Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with Jenny, a village girl. He is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Talbot kills the werewolf but is bitten during the fight. Bela's mother tells him that this will cause him to become a werewolf at each full moon. Talbot confesses his plight to his unbelieving father, Sir John, who then joins the villagers in a...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world?and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, cest partie! The Mona Lisa, shes gone! No one knew who was behind...
15) Lissy
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"La región italiana de Alto-Adige es la parte más septentrional del condado y limita con Suiza y Austria. La majestuosa cadena montañosa de los Dolomitas abarca la zona creando paisajes hermosos e inhóspitos. Pero este lugar de belleza también esconde un lado malvado. Porque dentro de las sombras de los imponentes picos de los Dolomitas, un hombre ha forjado un reino de terror. Desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando solo era un niño, Herr Wegener...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
"The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise - the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux." Thus John...
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