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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...
3083) 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...
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
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...
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...
3090) A thousand miles behind
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After losing his wife and daughter, Preston Avery finds himself suddenly trapped in grief and isolated in a now empty house. As the days bleed together, all hope seems to be lost until a motorcycle mysteriously appears one. In an act of restless despair, he sets out on a solo trip across California. On the road, he crosses paths with a young woman named Tracey, who is finally able to break through his fog of grief just long enough to throw him a lifeline...
3091) Happily ever Esther: two men, a wonder pig, and their life-changing missions to give animals a home
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter, had their lives turned upside down when they adopted their pig-daughter Esther--the so-called micro pig who turned out to be a full-sized commercial pig growing to a whopping 600 pounds--as they describe in their bestselling memoir Esther the Wonder Pig. The book ends with them moving to a new farm, and starting a new wonderful life where they will live on the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary to care for other animals...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Join Kelly, Grandma Iris, and Buddy the bulldog as they solve murders in the small Midwestern town of Marchville. This omnibus edition contains three complete mysteries: March Street Murder, March Street Mayhem, and March Street Malice" --
March Street Murder - Welcome to the March Street Cafe. My name's Kelly, and I'll be your server today. I think I've said those words a hundred times. But I'm more than just a server. I'm a painter. In fact, a...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"King of the '80s nostalgia explosion, Heathcliff is back, ruling the neighborhood with an iron paw and a sense of adventure. When Heathcliff is not grabbing fish from the market or teasing the neighborhood bulldog, Spike, he is full of love and goodwill for others, despite himself"--Container.
3095) Poetry speaks who I am
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Say cheese: The Nutmegs decide to have a family portrait taken - including Heathcliff. Every time the photographer tells the group to "say cheese," mice appear and Heathcliff dashes to catch them, leaving the studio a shambles in his wake.
Meow Meow Island: During an afternoon of deep-sea fishing, Heathcliff and the Nutmegs land their boat on a small island for a picnic and soon learn the island is inhabited by a tribe of wild cats called Meow Meows....
3097) The best of soul train
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
For over thirty-five years, Soul Train was a national institution, the premier U.S. television show for showcasing the latest names in the world of black music--Container.