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Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through the examination of myth, legend, language and history, an exploration of how the imaginary world of Middle-Earth reflects our own. Includes interviews with the cast, filmmakers, explorers, anthropologists, and archaeologists.
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A new kind of climate change story, narrated by an adorable axolotl [a type of salamander], possibly the last of its kind.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future? Following her astonishing Seasonal Quartet, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary,...
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children.
Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires and dreams, faults and fears, who gave her life unconditionally...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
An investigation into the Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader, Jane Whaley, is a master of manipulation. Starting in 1979 with a small group of followers, the group has expended to include thousands of congregants across three continents. Gives the story of a singular female cult leader, a terrifying portrait of life inside the cult, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades....
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
119 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The mythos, landscapes and characters that Tolkien created are nothing short of spectacular, and it has taken four decades for cinema technology to reach the necessary level of sophistication to bring them to life. Now, Peter Jackson has accomplished the extraordinary feat of making three motion pictures simultaneously to capture Tolkien's vision in its entirety. For the past several years, Peter Jackson and his team of dedicated filmmakers have been...
17) Life sentence
Author
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
306 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
18) Cadena Perpetua
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
Tercera edición.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
93 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A high school girl, the last human on Earth, and her loyal canine companion make their way through the prefectures of postapocalyptic Japan, taking in the spectacular sights and meeting the locals, from the furry to the intimidating to the outright bizarre! After all, when there's no destination, the journey is all the fun!