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3061) Disney Pixar: Volume 2
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Up: Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Is your mama a llama? Lloyd the llama is looking for his mama. "Is your mama a llama?" he asks a bat, a swan, a cow, a seal, and a kangaroo. Young children will share Lloyd's delight when the answer to his question is finally, "Yes!"
Three cheers for Catherine the Great : Sara's feisty Russian grandmother asks for "no presents" for her birthday -- and gets them -- just in time for the borscht and blintzes party!
Five creatures : Told from a small...
Author
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Since September 11, 2001, a concern has been that terrorists or their supporters would seek to immigrate to the United States (I.e., seek lawful permanent residency (LPR)). The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) conducts background checks and the FBI conducts name checks for those applying for LPR. GAO was asked to review USCIS's processes for screening individuals applying for LPR. GAO assessed: (1)...
3071) Kate plays Christine
Publisher
GrasshopperFilm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In July 1974, 29-year-old TV host Christine Chubbuck went on air in Sarasota, Florida for her morning talk show "Suncoast Digest" and shot herself on live TV. The incident became a national news story and is rumored to have been the inspiration for Sidney Lumet's Oscar-winning film Network. This film follows a young actress named Kate Lyn Sheil who is hired to portray Chubbuck in a new film.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
3074) Tommy guns
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country's independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Another group of soldiers, completely cut off from the outside world, blindly follow the brutal orders of their commander in the name of serving their...
Publisher
NIS America, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dive into the depths of a treacherous world covered in toxic fungi with void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 2. From the developers at Nippon Ichi Software comes the second installment in the Void Terrarium series. Within this world overwhelmed by decay, a single light of hope persists: a young girl named Toriko, the last surviving human. Her robot friend-turned-caretaker, Robbie, has nursed her back to health within the comforts of a shattered terrarium...
Author
Publisher
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
This group, which consisted of between 90 and 120 men, women, and children, was founded in 1970, on a farm in Elijah, Missouri. In 1976, the founder of the group bought a secluded 220 acre farm from the Campus Crusade For Christ, located on the Missouri-Arkansas border, approximately seven miles southwest of Pontiac, Missouri. They made this property their settlement house and named it Zarephath-Horeb. They stockpiled food, weapons and trained themselves...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Mork, a misfit on Ork because of his sense of humor, was sent off to study Earthlings, whose "crazy" customs the "Orkans" had never been able to understand. Mork landed in a giant eggshell near Boulder, Colorado and was befriended by pretty Mindy McConnell, a music store clerk. Mork looked human but his strange mix of Orkan and Earthling customs led most people to think of him as just some kind of nut. Aware of his origins, Mindy helped him adjust...