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This intimate, fascinating biography of Quaker visionary Charles Walker illuminates his struggles for racial justice and his role in promoting the teachings of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. Volume 2 focuses on his contribution to the movement of the 1960s and his relationships with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders.
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Después de Ciudad en llamas, la épica, ambiciosa y ganadora bestseller del New York Times-"El Padrino de nuestra generación" (Adrian MacKinty)-, llega la segunda novela de la legendaria trilogía de crimen de Don Wilson, el autor bestseller internacional #1 de la trilogía El cártel (El poder del perro, El Cártel y La frontera).
Hollywood.
La ciudad donde los sueños se hacen realidad.
Ahora que su bando está perdiendo la sangrienta guerra criminal...
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Después de Ciudad en llamas, la épica, ambiciosa y ganadora bestseller del New York Times—“El Padrino de nuestra generación” (Adrian MacKinty)—, llega la segunda novela de la legendaria trilogía de crimen de Don Wilson, el autor bestseller internacional #1 de la trilogía El cártel (El poder del perro, El Cártel y La frontera).
Hollywood.
La ciudad donde los sueños se hacen realidad.
Ahora que su bando está perdiendo la sangrienta...
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Belmont Library Latest: National Arab-American Heritage Month (April 9, 2024)
NPR: Books We Love 2023
NPR: Books We Love 2023
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Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care of the house, and has dinner ready when her husband gets...
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"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...
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"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...
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2024.
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"Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that...
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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
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[2023]
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There is another world that waits for all of us when we close our eyes and sleep, a place called the Dreaming, where the Sandman, Master of Dreams, gives shape to all of our deepest fears and fantasies. But when Dream is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for a century, his absence sets off a series of events that will change both the dreaming and waking worlds forever.
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"A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women's rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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The Snowy Mountains Scheme remains one of the greatest engineering feats in the world today but behind the story of engineering and construction is the story of the people who built the dream, the story of the people behind the power. An estimated 100,000 people worked on the Scheme between 1949 and 1974, the year of its completion. Two thirds of them were immigrants from over 40 countries around the world. The Snowy is a story of social, cultural...
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Vertical Entertainment
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2022.
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English
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Cole Baird appears to have everything, but behind the façade he’s trapped by his surroundings and falling behind in pursuit of his life’s dream. He now has a choice: continue a life to which he never aspired or follow the path to fulfillment.
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Shattered Dreams and Broken Hearts is a spiritual and inspirational guide for family survivors who have lost someone to suicide. Expressing .her grief throgh poetry, is not only therapeutic to the author, but can also be therapeutic to others suffering from similar losses. One can relate to the various stages of grief that one must go through in order to survive a horrible tragedy or senseless loss. One never knows when it is going to affect their...
14) Dreams of Chonta
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Pragda
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2020.
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English
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Diego, an Afro-Colombian undocumented musician leaves his family behind in Pacific Coast of Colombia, facing a solitary life and a minimum wage job at a cemetery all to become an ambassador of his music and his culture in New York City. With unprecedented access to the New York’s underground Latin American music scene, Dreams of Chonta takes to a scene where the greatest musicians from around the world blend to create, perform, live and breath...
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Returning home when Gran, the treasured matriarch, falls in a coma after a car accident caused by her mother, Maggie finds Sullivan's Island is holding even more secrets as she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind and finding love.
In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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English
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Harrod Blank, who introduced the world to the art car with his moveable epic Wild Wheels, is back with an in-depth look at the personalities behind these multi-wheeled works of art. This time, he focuses on Gene Pool's "Grass Bus", Harry Sperl's "Hamburger Harley", Hyler Bracey's horn and whistle adorned "Bighorn" and his own two vehicles, "Oh My God!" and the one of a kind "Camera Van". Broadcast on National Geographic TV in 1997.
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As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
19) Instant Dreams
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Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
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Instant film production came to a halt after Polaroid shut down in 2008, but a group of engineers are trying to recreate the lost formula behind instant film. The documentary follows three people with a deep love for Polaroid and along with archival footage delves into the chemistry, artistry and history behind this technological behemoth of the 20th century. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the **Slamdance Film Festival** and **San Francisco...
20) Impossible Light
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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On March 5th, 2013, San Francisco’s skyline was transformed by an amazing sight: 25,000 LED lights that, for perhaps the first time save the 1989 earthquake, caused people to consider the Bay Bridge instead of her iconic sister. How did this happen? Who was behind the eight million-dollar installation? How in the world did they pull it off? The story behind the making of THE BAY LIGHTS—a project whose very “impossibility made it possible”—answers...
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