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1) Shipwreck
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In 1873, a storm wrecks a ship on the rocks near a tiny fishing village in Nova Scotia. The people in the village, including the parish priest and young Will Murdoch, bravely work to save the ship's crew. Found in the shipwreck is a rich young woman with a newborn baby and a terrible secret. With the help of the priest, young Will discovers the truth.
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Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and cousin Tilda. Wyatt's account of the astonishing--not least to him--events leading up to his...
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2021.
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"The human story has always been one of perseverance-often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing...
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
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x, 337 pages ; 24 cm
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"The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down--and protect--before others can get their hands on it. Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives...
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Algonquin
Pub. Date
2020.
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xiii, 333 pages ; 23 cm
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Presents an anthology of thirteen short stories by contemporary young adult authors, ranging from fantasy to the experience of Mexican Americans living in border cities. Each story is followed by an author's note, commentary by one of the editors on suchtopics as voice, imagery, and mood, and some, with story prompts.
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Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
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405 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure - and to kill.
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Fox film noir volume 8
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2005
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
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"A man awakens in a Honolulu hospital with no memory of his identity. He has three personal items : a wallet, a letter from an angry ex-lover, and a note from one Larry Cravat, an apparent business associate. Searching for Cravat, the amnesiac heads to Los Angeles, enlisting the help of a saloon singer, her boss and a police lieutenant. When he starts asking questions, he's blindsided by goons and chased by cops, but ultimately makes a shocking discovery."--Container....
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Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2003
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64 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
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Discusses the sixteenth-century exploration of California's coast, including the adventures of such Spanish explorers as Cortes, Juan Rodri?guez Cabrillo, and Sebastia?n Vizcai?no, as well as Englishman Sir Francis Drake.
12) A secular age
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007
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x, 874 p. ; 24 cm.
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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2011.
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4 DVDs (1334 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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LEXX follows the nomadic existence of four misfit characters who have inadvertently stolen the most powerful weapon of destruction ever made: a Manhattan-sized, genetically-modified insect-ship. Filled with eccentric stowaways, outrageous planets and more , Lexx: seasons one & two are a must-see mix of laughs and sci-fi action.--Container.
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WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nova travels deep into Japan's ancient foundries, following the craft of the traditional sword-smiths and attending Samurai fighting school to reveal the art and science behind making what many call the perfect sword.
15) The underdogs
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Underdogs (Tracey West) volume 1
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In Barksdale Academy (in the town of Barksdale) most canines strive to be Best in Show; Nova, Duke, Harley, and Peanut have never won anything, but this year Nova is determined to get her pack to pass their agility exam--even though Duke is aftraid of thehigh ramp, Harley just wants to chase squirrels, Peanut can not make it through the hoops, and Nova herself gets so excited she keeps knocking the whole practice course over.
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of 'CSI' and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. In Forensics on Trial, NOVA investigates how modern forensics can send innocent men and women to prison, and sometimes even to death row. Nova will investigate today's shaky state of crime science as well as cutting-edge solutions that could help investigators put the real criminals behind bars.
17) The black queen
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Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is dead. Murdered the night of her coronation, her body found the next morning in the old slave cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating. Tinsley McArthur was supposed to be queen. Not only is she beautiful, wealthy, and white, it’s her legacy—her grandmother, her mother, and even her sister wore the crown before her. Everyone in Lovett knows Tinsley would do anything to carry...
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 DVD (ca. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Specially developed macro camera lenses are used to portray a year in the life of a working bee colony. Stunning images take viewers inside the innermost secrets of the hive. Sequences include the "wedding flight" of the colony's virgin queen as it mates in mid-air with a drone; the life-and-death battle between two rival queens for the colony's throne; and the defeat and death of a thieving wasp at the entrance to the hive. The film also explores...
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WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2003
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1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nova examines the designs, setbacks and test flights in the battle waged between Boeing and Lockheed Martin to build the Joint Strike Fighter. The winner of the most lucrative contract in military history is revealed.
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