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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating look at Walt Disney's last, unfinished project and the controversy that surrounded it. It was going to be Disneyland at the top of a mountain. A vacation destination where guests could ski, go ice skating, or be entertained by a Disney Imagineer-created band of Audio-Animatronic bears. In the summer, visitors could fish, camp, hike, or take a scenic chairlift ride to the top of a mountain. It was the Mineral King resort in Southern...
162) The violin
Author
Series
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Follow violinist, Lilu, as she prepares for her concert performances and uncovers more about the violin. Discover how the instrument is made, how it is played and its role within the orchestra. Get swept up in the magic of the music as Lilu rehearses for a dream summer evening performance. With panels that offer suggestions for music to listen to and exclusive music to download from the LSO, this is a multi-sensory experience in which to enjoy and...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Former vice-chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant, delivers an accessible and powerful resource for everyday Americans seeking to build a strong financial foundation. This book is an easy-to-follow first step toward a fulfilling financial future, helping you understand your relationship to work and money. With an insightful foreword by Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Walmart Inc., you'll learn...
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills-and contend with growing feelings for her close family friend-in this debut romance Jia Deshpande, the ever-confident stylish fashionista, is a writer with Mimosa, Mumbai's top women's magazine, where she begrudgingly writes clichae articles about finding "the one." Out of the office, Jia writes the messy truth of real love on her anonymous blog while balancing competitive family...
Publisher
Doppelgänger Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Phil Tippett: mad dreams and monsters: A portrait of the special effects genius behind many of the most iconic movie creatures of the modern era.
The Frankenstein complex: A delightful group profile of the special effects wizards who turn rubber, latex and resin into cinema's most memorable and terrifying creations.
Publisher
Out of the Woods Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from the life experiences of teens, this collection was crafted by participants in the PATHfinder Club, which has merged with POPS the Club, the organization behind eight previous anthologies. Created by and for 'individuals who have been impacted by incarceration, detention, and deportation,' this anthology provides nourishment and support and increases awareness. Several writers reflect on the effects of absent parents. Readers also hear...
Publisher
Maximum Games
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"You are in charge of an abandoned community garden and decide to roll up your sleeves to restore it to its former glory. Complete tasks given to you by your neighbors to earn rewards, unlock new tools, seeds, ornaments and areas of the garden, and learn more about what lies behind this secluded spot. Plant and nurture your dream garden using gardening techniques based in real life and adapted for everyone to enjoy." -- garden-life-a-cozy-simulator.com...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Take the stress out of wedding planning with this easy-to-follow, 12-month, pocket-sized guide that covers all the ins and outs of modern weddings. From the writer behind The New York Times article "How to Plan a Wedding" comes a portable while comprehensive guide to planning your dream wedding and minimizing stress. Whether you're eloping at city hall or throwing a no-expense-spared reception for 300 guests, this month-by-month guide will help you...
Author
Series
Orchard Inn novels volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What if the dreams you had are no longer the ones you want the most? Chef Aurora Shipley spent years slicing, dicing, and chopping her way up the ladder of L.A.'s competitive restaurant scene, but when her sisters needed her, she dropped everything to help out. But soon she'll be leaving the Orchard Inn and her small hometown behind to head back to the city--especially before Jude Jones stirs up any more painful memories best left forgotten. As a...
Author
Publisher
Walter Foster Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Spotlighting 100 characters from the 1920s to the 2020s, this book features vintage and modern illustrations from The Walt Disney Company and Andreas Deja's personal archives, as well as essays exploring the history of Disney animation. You can re-create and draw the best of Disney's characters while celebrating the Disney design process, character evolutions, and artist interpretations.-- From back cover.
171) Connemara
Author
Publisher
Other Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Hélène is approaching forty. Born in a small town in the east of France, she worked hard to leave it behind and achieve a life worthy of the glossy magazines she pored over as a teen. But now that she seemingly has it all - a husband and two daughters, a successful career, and an architect-designed house near Nancy - she feels unfulfilled, as though the years have passed her by. Christophe just turned forty and has never left his little corner...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A 366-day guidebook to maximizing wealth, love, and creativity from New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks. What if a year from now you could be experiencing more happiness, health and wealth? Learn how to take the big leap - one little leap a day. Gay Hendricks' bestselling book The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level has sold over 350,000 copies since its original publication. That book outlined the idea...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A Dark-Hunter Christmas: Gallagher is in New Orleans at Christmastime without his family. Missing the ones he loves is a powerful force and threatens to cast a pall over the Big Easy's Christmas cheer. But Simi has a few tricks up her sleeve, intent to show him that even though he is apart from his loved ones, he still has people to lean on..."--
"Upon the midnight clear: Meet Aidan O'Conner, a world-renowned celebrity who gave freely of himself...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her undergraduate degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments, she seeks common ground with her Canadian-born younger sister and grieves the beloved cousin she lost touch with back home. After Yuè Yuè receives a call from a girl making accusations, her date ghosts her. Meanwhile, her mother's illness advances...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Season eight begins six months after LaGuerta's murder, and Dexter is still managing life as a dad, brother, and serial killer. As Deb struggles to deal with the consequences of her actions, a mysterious woman comes to work with Miami Metro, offering firsthand information on Dexter's past.
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner-and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true. Computer...
Author
Publisher
Seth Ferranti
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the penitentiary to the streets, it's on and popping. Thug life is more than spitting rhymes or hustling on the corner. Thugs live and die on the streets or end up in the "belly of the beast." Rappers name-drop guns by model number and call out drug dealers by name. Gangsta rap is crack-era nostalgia taken to the extreme. It's a world where rappers emulate their favorite hood stars in videos, celebrate their names in verse, and make ghetto heroes...
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. Has the young nurse finally succumbed to the mounting emotional toll caused from months of caring for the sick and wounded just behind the front lines of General Patton's Third Army? On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load (over...
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one our generation's most beloved horror icons. A classically trained actor and talented director, Englund has starred in many well-received movies in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth as well as directing his own feature film.
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