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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America's natural heritage.Based on speeches delivered at town meetings and government hearings, this book joins The Singing Wilderness and...
63) Ask no questions
Publisher
Allied Vaughn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Chinese state TV blames his faith for a fiery public suicide, Chen Ruichang is detained in a Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing facility and forced to accept the government's account. But Chen, a former insider of the state TV himself, believes it was all a government plot. A CNN reporter smuggled out footage of the event that day but was then muzzled by Beijing. Now, her eyewitness testimony helps untangle an intricate conspiracy, as Chinese...
Author
Publisher
Harriman House
Language
English
Description
Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal...
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Kids don't just learn one way . . . and that matters a lot for homeschool parents. One of the benefits of a home education is a curriculum designed to fit each student. But that means knowing how your child learns. Not every child receives knowledge the same way. It's up to the teacher to figure out the best way to reach each one. Based on the 8 Smarts identified by Kathy Koch -- word, logic, picture, music, body, nature, people, and self -- 8 Great...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 bestselling author--a book about an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This season explores new areas of ancient technology, engineering, and communications that engender fresh perspectives about unexplained phenomena throughout time. From meteor impact and over 10,000 crop circles in over 50 countries to complex ancient temples and towering obelisks in Turkey and Egypt to over five decades₂ worth of extensive data collected by MUFON, a vast collection of UFO investigators, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos and other ancient astronaut...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The magical series reveals what it's like to be a puppy or kitten during the most important, experimental year of their lives. Witness the world through their eyes and discover that beneath their cute visage lies a world of drama, love, learning, and courage.
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Sid the Science Kid inspires children to ask questions about how the world works, embracing every child's natural passion for fun and discovery. In this Encyclopedia of Discovery, Sid and his friends investigate over 26 exciting topics with the help of Teacher Susie, Sid's dad and mom and Professor Cordova. Get ready to learn concepts like the difference between primary colors and secondary colors. It's also time to learn about time. And have you...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning actor Martin Clunes travels the U.S. islands in this fun and informative voyage around America’s amazing coasts. Along the way, he sees dazzling and diverse landscapes, gets up close and personal with wildlife ranging from endangered foxes to great white sharks, and chats with insightful historians and memorable locals. Join Clunes on this island-hopping quest to witness the wonders of America, from sea to shining sea.
74) In Cold Blood
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
75) Barack Obama
Series
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the career of Illinois Senator Barack Obama, and his candidacy in the 2008 presidential race.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
Follow a team of international scientists documenting an archeological sensation: the exploration of royal tombs beneath the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán. Not much is known about this long-lost society. When archeologists discover evidence of a sacrificial chamber beneath the famous Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, they find the clues that may finally tell us who these mysterious people were.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling Little House series.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An ensemble medical show about a group of ex-Army doctors who work the night shift at a hospital and do whatever it takes to help their patients. Using battlefield-tested medical skills, doctors clash with hospital bureaucrats who are more worried about the bottom line than the lives of their patients.
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