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Publisher
Smart Kids/Penton Overseas, Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (70 min.), 1 CD (70 min.), 1 book (48 p.) ; in package.
Language
Italiano
Description
The three components of this interactive language learning set provide seeing, hearing, and doing activities that teach essential vocabulary such as counting, colors, family members, foods, animals, basic phrases, and more. DVD contains 21 bilingual music videos with lyrics subtitled on the screen. CD contains 21 bilingual songs to take anywhere you go. Book contains lyrics and activities to practice vocabulary.
63) Lucky
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104, 20 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Zulu
Description
A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city, only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 51 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Women in four African countries are shown organizing around issues of marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation and entrepreneurship. A film about African women is a rarity, even more, one made by an African woman. In Femmes Aux Yeux Ouverts, award-winning Togolese filmmaker, Anne-Laure Folly presents portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin. The film shows how...
65) Thunderbolt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 103 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A story from the burgeoning video industry of Nigeria combines melodrama and issues of ethnicity, gender, culture and identity in post-colonial Africa. Thunderbolt will come as a bolt out of the blue to most Americans, even aficionados of African cinema. It is one of the best examples of the little-known but burgeoning video industry of Nigeria. Most films in this Library of African Cinema catalog ironically are seen more in the West than in Africa...
66) Snow bow
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What role does truth play in the retelling of historical events in performance and art? Is performance a stage practice or do we construct and perform our identities throughout our lives? These and other questions are explored in this moving documentary about west coast dancer John Henry, as he deals with his legacy in the face of the end of his life. Singing myself a lullaby by Douglas Rosenberg and Ellen Bromberg, was funded by a grant from the...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
xx, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides an inside look at the admissions process at top-rated colleges--specifically those that accept thrity-five percent or less from their applicant pools--and offers advice for students on how to make their application stand out from the crowd.
69) Crab cab
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : color illustrations. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
516 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Tony Kushner's Angels in America is that rare entity: a work for the stage that is profoundly moving yet very funny, highly theatrical yet steeped in traditional literary values, and most of all deeply American in its attitudes and political concerns. In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to know). This essential, fully updated edition is packed with real-life advice on everything from making friends to managing stress. Hilarious, outrageous, and telling stories from students on over 100 college campuses cover the basics, and then some, including...
Publisher
Smart Kids/Penton Overseas, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (70 min.), 1 CD (70 min.), 1 book (48 p.) ; in package.
Language
English
Description
The three components of this interactive language learning set provide seeing, hearing, and doing activities that teach essential vocabulary such as counting, colors, family members, foods, animals, basic phrases, and more. DVD contains 21 bilingual live action music videos with lyrics subtitled on the screen. CD contains 21 bilingual songs to take anywhere you go. Book contains lyrics and activities to practice vocabulary.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, Special Forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an anti-narcotics raid. Months later, he regained consciousness in a US military hospital, with no memory of how he'd gotten there-- and a prognosis that he would never walk again. After multiple surgeries and numerous setbacks, Morgan was a single father confined to a wheelchair and tortured by his pain. Light came in the form of Napal, the black Labrador...
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A decade after their wild boat ride adventure on the Thames river, J, Harris, and George reunite for another vacation. Older, richer, and fatter, but not wiser, the three men stumble through mishaps and surprises as they journey to Germany. First saying their goodbyes, J and Harris seek the approval of their wives, worried about leaving their kids. Their wives are supportive, secretly considering their husbands' trip from home as a vacation for themselves...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district. Initially rejected by publishers for being viewed as too brutal and accurate in its descriptions of poverty and female sexuality, Stephen Crane published the work at his own expense. Following the success of Crane's novel "The Red Badge of Courage," this...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea-if you gazed intently, enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About...
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Coming of Bill (1919) is the story of Kirk Winfield, an aspiring artist, and his marriage to wealthy heiress Ruth Bannister. Ruth's strong-willed aunt, Mrs. Lora Delane Porter, is a proponent of eugenics and upon the birth of the couple's first child takes an active role in his upbringing. Bill sets out on a dangerous mission to South American in hopes of improving the family's finances, but returns to find his home quite different from how he...
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