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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
3) Me-- Jane
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Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
4) Joe
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
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1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
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Director Danny Boyle thrills in this 'original, daring' tale of a group of young drug addicts wheeling through blue collar Edinburgh that earned an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Trainspotting electrified audiences and critics with its hilariously dark humor, stunning visuals and sharp honest take on both the exhilarating highs, and the terrifying lows, of addiction.
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Discusses the many ways children can make a positive change in the world, including planting more trees to reduce global warming, protecting endangered animals and their habitats, fighting food waste, and standing up to bullies.
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With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
8) Moonlight
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A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
9) Up
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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 that...
10) Superbad
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
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1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more imporant than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing their virginity with the girl of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their "regret hookup." Their awkward friend Fogell gets a fake ID, with just the name McLovin, and agrees to get...
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Booklocker.com, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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176 pages ; 22 cm
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Orphaned as a child, Lu Chi Fa survived brutality and starvation in China during and after World War II. Once sold for two sacks of rice, in 1951 he fled to Hong Kong and Taiwan for a better life and immigrated to the United States in 1969. He and Becky White told that story in Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan; in 2001 it won the Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award. This book adds details about Lu Chi Fa's early life and follows his quest...
15) The long winter
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGenthe children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and laterare vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me." --
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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xiv, 176 pages ; 20 cm.
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"This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait...
19) Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo, who is a member of the house of Montague, falls in love with the beautiful Juliet, a member of the house of Capulet. The Montagues and the Capulets have been engaged in a feud for many years and as such the love between Romeo and Juliet is a forbidden one.
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Manufactured and Distributed by BMG
Pub. Date
pc2004
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1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the summer of 1982, the Better Youth Organization of Los Angeles planned a North American tour for eleven punk rock musicians. Video filmmakers Peter Stuart and Adam Small recorded the adventures of these musicians, both in concert and on the road.
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