Stockard Channing
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This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-fourth president, Barack H. Obama. Hilariously illustrated by Small, this celebration by St. George shows us the foibles, quirks and humanity of forty-four men who have risen to one of the most powerful positions in the world.
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Every year, 100 million monarch butterflies set off on an incredible journey across North America. These beautiful creatures fly 2,000 miles to reach their remote destination in a tiny area high in the mountains of Mexico. Scientists still puzzle over how the butterflies achieve this tremendous feat of endurance, and how, year after year, the monarchs navigate with such hair's breadth precision. Visit the spectacular locations they call home and meet...
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A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
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Celebrate American history and learn about the public and private lives of our Presidents; Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill; A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President; The true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it. Suports early reading; leadership; history knowledge.
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The events of Hitler's climb to power tell only part of the story. Neither Adolf Hitler nor the Germany of 1939 exploded onto the world stage fully formed. Both evolved. Both were running from failures in their past. Both were looking for someone to blame. Together they entered into a macabre dance to find security and a stronger identity. Whipped into a frenzied fear inflamed by the "Hitler-roar", Germany happily surrendered its voice to one man....
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Batman beyond, the movie: The aging Bruce Wayne hangs up his cape as the once invincible Batman. But when troubled teen Terry McGinnis stumbles upon the Dark Knight's secret, a new alliance is forged. And a triumphant new Batman is born.
Golem: Willie Watt is an easy target for bullies like Nelson Nash and the rest of the jock crown of Hamilton High. But Willie has found a new friend: a two-story tall machine used for the construction of buildings....
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"A striking portrait of a woman artist's struggle for life."--Arthur Miller Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.
9) MaryLand
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MaryLand is a story about two sisters, about what binds them together and what has driven them apart. Becca and Rosaline find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary.
11) Pulling strings
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After his daughter's Visa request to visit her grandparents in America is rejected, a single father and his loyal best friend do everything it takes to win over the Embassy worker who turned her down.
13) Twilight
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"Harry Ross [is] a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups"--Container.
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Michael is a guardian angel who appears to children when they need an imaginary friend. From the ages of five to ten-years old, Jane Claremont was one of his charges. Now she is about to marry TV series star Hugh Danderford. Michael appears to Jane again but neither one of them know why. Soon Michael falls in love with Jane and gradually seduces her. Now Jane must decide if she will remain committed to Hugh, or stay with Michael.
15) A girl thing
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Psychiatrist Dr. Beth Noonan has a thriving practice. Every day she helps her patients deal with the unexpected twists and turns of their lives. But she has some problems of her own and she'll need to first help herself if she's going to help her patients.
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"Explores almost 200 years of Deaf life in America and presents a broad range of perspectives on what it means to be deaf. The film is propelled by the stories of people, both eminent and ordinary, and sheds lights on events that have shaped Deaf lives: the creation of schools for deaf students, the debate about American Sign Language, the campaign for a deaf-friendly telephone (the TTY), the fight for a deaf president at Gallaudet University, and...
17) Anything else
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When an aspiring young writer falls head-over-heels in love with a free-spirited, hard-to-please young woman, he soon discover's he is going to have to work doubly hard to make their love work.
18) Smoke
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Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
19) Le divorce
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Isabel Walker travels to Paris to visit her pregnant stepsister Roxy, by chance arriving on the same day that Roxy's husband Charles-Henri leaves the marriage, apparently for another woman. As Isabel stays to offer help and support, the two young women start living it up with the locals and American expatriates, and Isabel finds herself being wooed by an older French man- who happens to be related to Roxy's ex-husband.