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"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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At the dawn of World War I, the United States was only a rising power. Our reputation was relatively benign among Middle Easterners, who saw no imperial ambitions in our presence and were grateful for the educational and philanthropic services Americans provided. Yet by September 11, 2001, everything had changed. The United States had now become the unquestioned target of those bent on attacking the West for its perceived offenses against Islam.
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Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2009
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xiv, 306 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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The author, a former international banker, relates her experiences trying to understand global poverty and working with the poor, and suggests ways in which the situation should be addressed.
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Olive Branch Press
Pub. Date
©2007
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ix, 196 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
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English
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If you have ever wondered "Why is there so much violence in the Middle East?," "Who are the Palestinians anyway?," "What are the occupied territories?" or "What does Israel want?," then this is the book for you. With straightforward language, Phyllis Bennis, longtime analyst of the region, answers basic questions about Israel and Israelis, Palestine and Palestinians, the US and the Middle East, Zionism and anti-Semitism; about complex issues ranging...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
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Unabridged
Language
English
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On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after...
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In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Theatre de Champs-Elysees. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with President...
48) The lesson
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Bulgarian
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In a small Bulgarian town, Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher and devoted mother, struggling to keep her life together. Her unemployed, alcoholic husband has secretly spent their mortgage payments on booze, the agency where she translates legal documents for extra cash is going under, and a thief in her class has stolen the last of her money out of her purse. With few options left, Nade turns to a local loan shark for help,...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xii, 498 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system. Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery - the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They're desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology...
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Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Barbs of a conservative sort, with subjects ranging from Kosovo to airport security. P. J. O'Rourke is both incisive reporter and absurdist, relevant and irreverent, with a clear eye for everyone's confusion including his own. O'Rourke understands that peace is sometimes one of the most troubling aspects of war.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (183 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director/co-writer Burhan Qurbani’s audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred D oblin’s 1929 novel (famously adapted by Reiner Werner Fassbinder in 1980). After surviving his perilous journey, Francis vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while undocumented in Germany without papers, without nationality, and without a...
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Anna and Lola volume Book 1
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English
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When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
54) Parachutes
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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476 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II."--
Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close...
56) Troll hunter
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
The government says there's nothing to worry about, it's just a problem with bears making trouble in the mountains of Norway. But the locals don't believe it and neither do a trio of college students who want to find out the truth. With a video camera, they trail a mysterious 'poacher' who wants nothing to do with them. However, their persistence lands them straight in the path of the objects of his pursuits: trolls.
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Publisher
Alpha Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 368 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Presents the principles of Spanish vocabulary, grammar, and usage for immediate use, along with a Spanish/English-English/Spanish dictionary, a guide to pronunciation, cultural information, useful phrases, and exercises.
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Mhz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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3 videodiscs (ca. 269 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
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Annika Bengtzon is a journalist and working mother of two struggling to keep her marriage alive. Fearless in her search for the truth, she won't take no for an answer from anyone: not from prestigious academicians, or drug dealers or from colleagues inside her own profession. Contains episode one - Nobel's Last Will; Episode two - Prime Time; and episode three - Studio Sex.
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