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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. In Season 2, Claire and Jamie arrive...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Appears on list
Description
As a child in Spain, Puri always knew her passion for chocolate was inherited from her father. But it’s not until his death that she learns of something else she’s inherited—a cocoa estate in Vinces, Ecuador, a town nicknamed “París Chiquito.” Eager to claim her birthright and filled with hope for a new life after the devastation of World War I, she and her husband Cristóbal set out across the Atlantic Ocean. But it soon becomes clear...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was her award-winning investigations on the plight of her people, the Uyghurs, whose existence and culture is being systematically destroyed by the Chinese government. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs is Gulchehra’s stunning memoir, taking us into the everyday world of life under Chinese rule in East Turkestan...
133324) The Great American Songbook
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Entertainer extraordinaire Michael Feinstein hosts a brand-new documentary on the evolution of the American popular music, told through stories of the greatest songwriters of all time, including Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin and more.
133325) Red Cliff
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In 208 A.D., General Cao Cao leads an army to destroy two warlords who stand in his way, but the warlords band together to take on the giant army and the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
133326) Scientology: An Overview
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
It has been attacked, venerated, questioned and praised. The adjectives used to describe it are many and varied. It is the only major religion to have emerged in the 20th century. It is growing at an incredible rate. People from all walks of life use it every day. Its followers number in the millions. It is in the news. It is talked about in the media, TV, and the worldwide web. Everyone seems to have an opinion of it. What is Scientology? This video...
133327) 1001 Classic Commercials
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
A comprehensive collection of memorable small-screen commercials that provide a history of American pop culture in a simple and straight-forward form.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Science Comics gives us a high-interest graphic novel packed with facts on robots and drones: past, present and future. Kids apply the information to coding with Artie the programmable robot that draws whatever you code on any sheet of paper. Use Snap Circuits to enjoy hours of educational fun while learning about electronics and circuits with hands-on manipulatives and easy-to-follow activity guides. Kits are sold in their entirety, components are...
133331) Becoming nobody
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Ram Dass shares the essence of his core wisdom through his iconic humor, joy, and honesty. Historical footage compliments an engaging conversation with director Jamie Catto as they explore the life experiences that helped to free Ram Dass from the attachment to his "somebody-ness" a journey that transformed him into the radiant soul who now inspires a new generation. It is the quintessential portal to Ram Dass' life and teachings.
133332) The seashell on the mountaintop
Author
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
A thrilling scientific investigation and the portrait of an extraordinary genius named Nicolaus Steno, the man whom Stephen Jay Gould called "the founder of geology."
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"The decade that gave us the "yuppie" was all about big business, big government and big changes. The balance in global dominance shifted as the superpowers - China, the USSR, the U.S., and England - realigned and either asserted themselves or faded away. Our world changed forever during these fateful ten years, and this captivating two-disc set clarifies the major events - and major players - that shaped our globe."--Container.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"The decade that gave us the "yuppie" was all about big business, big government and big changes. The balance in global dominance shifted as the superpowers - China, the USSR, the U.S., and England - realigned and either asserted themselves or faded away. Our world changed forever during these fateful ten years, and this captivating two-disc set clarifies the major events - and major players - that shaped our globe."--Container.
133335) The spanish princess
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The story of Princess Catherine of Aragon, first wife of King Henry VIII.
133337) W./E
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Winthrop's research reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought.
133338) Lawrence of Arabia
Pub. Date
[1962]
Description
Cinematic account of the life of T.E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia.
133339) A thousand years of good prayers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A Chinese man who travels to America to see his divorced daughter remarry cannot complete his journey when he realizes a generational and geographical divide has developed between them.
133340) Hugh Grant collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain: A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Sirens: An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of...