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English
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On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, and any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wildlife activists go undercover to expose ways in which the illegal wildlife trade and the oil and gas industries are contributing to the extinction of increasing numbers of species.
44) One in a million
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Annie Higgins has given up on love: shes too busy trying to get her tiny business off the ground. Infuriated by the advertising agency across the hall making fun of her job, Annie accepts their crazy challenge to make a random stranger Instagram-famous in just thirty days. And even when they choose Dr Samuel Page PhD, historian and hater of social media, as her target, Annie's determined to win the bet whether Sam likes it or not. But getting to know...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1190L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Russian Hacking in American Elections explains how Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. It also discusses the response from the United States and the investigation into the events while encouraging readers to form their own opinions. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division...
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English
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Harry Bergen-Murphy does not feel ready when he starts first grade, but by day 100 he has become an expert on several important things, including being a first-grader.
In just one hundred days, Harry will learn how to overcome first-day jitters, what a "family circle" is, why guinea pigs aren't scary after all, what a silent "e" is about, how to count to 100 in tons of different ways, and much more. He'll make great friends, celebrate lots of holidays,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history. Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
1110L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Women scientists have made key contributions to the pursuit of science and some of the most important discoveries of all time. In Marie Curie, learn how the Polish chemist and physicist chose to pursue a career in science and discovered radium, earning the Nobel Prize twice. Features include a timeline, a glossary, essential facts, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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Series
Lexile measure
990L
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English
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When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and lonely, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely--until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her snobbish relatives are taking her to...
51) King for a day!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
390L
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The pups from Nickelodeons PAW Patrol are putting on a King Arthur playif Marshall can save the day!" --
52) The tiger's wife
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
1130L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Women scientists have made key contributions to the pursuit of science and some of the most important discoveries of all time. In Jane Goodall, learn how the British primatologist chose to pursue a career in science and discovered new chimpanzee behavior, changing the way we understand our closest animal relatives. Features include a timeline, a glossary, essential facts, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
54) Thanksgiving
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Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2011].
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Every year families gather to share a wonderful meal and give thanks for their blessings at Thanksgiving. This book introduces readers to the history of this American holiday and explains why certain foods are eaten on this special day." -- From publisher website.
55) Labor Day
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
Publisher
Capitol Records
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
2 disc special edition, Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (64 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Based on the first part of The Beatles' career the period in which they toured and captured the worlds acclaim. Explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon. It explores their inner workings how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together all the while, exploring The Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable,...
59) Die another day
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in business with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world.
60) Right next door
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English
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Father's Day: Robin Masterson's ten-year-old son, Jeff, figures he needs a dog more than anything in the world. And there just happens to be one right next door! But the friendly black Lab belongs to Cole Camden, the "unfriendliest" man in the neighborhood. Still, Jeff persists...and soon his mom and Cole are looking at each other in a whole new way.
The courtship of Carol Sommars: Peter Sommars is fifteen, and what he needs is a little more independence....