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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are...
2) Barrio Cuba
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Laguna Productions
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Esta es la histora de seres que buscan su pedazo de felicidad en La Habana. Seres que apuran la vida, que se rebelan contra un destino incierto y se empen?an una y otra vez en encontrar una salida. La realidad les golpea, pero ellos nunca pierden la esperanza de un futuro mejor, de recuperar un amor, de conseguirlo, de superarse...
The leading characters live life to its fullest, propelling themselves over and over against an uncertain fate, searching...
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A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
[2008]
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2 videodiscs (234 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A woman must overcome obstacles and persevere during a time when women's rights were scarce and independence was all but forbidden. A compelling portrait of one woman's strength, courage, and defiance.
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.
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2020.
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From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s-history holds many surprises, and lives are changed...
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MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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256 pages.
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"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people. Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of "Latino"...
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"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. The decline of white working-class Americans, a demographic that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm -- but never before written about as searingly from the inside. Former marine and Yale Law School graduate J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social,...
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Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
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In a small village in Java, Indonesia, three young Muslim girls begin to explore their passion for heavy metal music after watching a Metallica concert on YouTube. They worry about what their parents and friends--and even their Imam--will think about the new interest. But they persevere regardless, and find new meaning in their lives and new ways to connect to their religion.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2014
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334 pages
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Documents the author's efforts to eat food produced within ten miles of her home in Puget Sound, Washington, exposing the cause-and-effect consequences of a processed-foods diet while sharing the stories of the farmers she befriended who epitomized the sustainable lifestyle.
11) Green book
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
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During the nineteen sixties, a bouncer, whose nightclub closes for renovations, finds a temporary employment as a driver for black pianist Don Shirley going on a tour into the Deep South states.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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ix, 308 pages ; 22 cm
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"Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah Mouton felt alienated from the stories she learned in class. She yearned for stories she felt connected to--true ones of course--but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and herplace in it. What she encountered was almost always written by white writers who prospered in a time when human beings were treated as chattel, such as the Greek and Roman myths, which felt as dusty...
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Herder
Pub. Date
[2022]
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542 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"El autismo es una criatura reciente. Pero, pese a su escaso tiempo de existencia, ha dado lugar a un profundo debate entre psiquiatría y neurología, abandonando a veces el enfoque social. Este libro nos propone entender el autismo como un trastorno que no se pliega a la simplificación biologista a la que tiende la psiquiatría. Para ayudar en el sufrimiento de quien lo padece y de su entorno, conviene aplicar multitud de enfoques, ajustándolos...
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"Joanne Samuel Goldblum, CEO and founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, and Colleen Shaddox, a journalist and activist, give a book shedding light on the realities faced by those living in poverty across the United States and provide a road map for eradicating poverty via policy changes"--
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
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2 videodiscs (290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s. After returning from the Civil War, two men spark a feud between their families that leads to battles and causes the families and their neighbors to seek vengeance against each other.
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Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2004
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6 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the heartland of an empire called America, where a traveling carnival harboring Ben Hawkins, a troubled healer, will clash with an evangelical ministry led by Borther Justin Crowe."--Container....
17) Appaloosa
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
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1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a lawless town from the murderous rancher. Their efforts become complicated and their friendship is tested when a young widow arrives in town.
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The sweeping Downton Abbey saga continues, beginning six months after the unexpected death of Matthew Crawley, heir to Downton Abbey, husband to Lady Mary, and brand new father to a baby boy and successor, in a car accident. Although it is the 1920s, Britain still observes mourning rituals that are almost Victorian in their solemnity. Nonetheless, life goes on at Downton Abbey and the Crawleys are beginning to snap out of it.
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Crown
Pub. Date
2019.
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xvii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers,"...
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