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Henry chapter books volume 2
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Henry, a young boy with autism goes on a class field trip to the natural history museum, with instructions to find something new.
2) Old Henry
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An action western about a farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse comes for the money, he must decide who to trust. Defending a siege, he reveals a gunslinging talent calling his true identity into question.
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Returning to the middle-class neighborhood where he grew up, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) chooses to live in indulgent isolation. Real life, however, refuses to cooperate with his plans. Nosy neighbors interrupt him with curious visits and prying questions. Then the situation escalates as a stain on Henry's stucco wall is seen to have miraculous powers. His last-ditch hideout becomes a shrine when his backyard turns into an arena for passionate debate...
4) Happy cat
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The joys of giving and receiving are celebrated in this story about a cat who seeks shelter on a snowy day.
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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
7) Snow is fun
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When the branch a little bird is sitting on snaps and he falls into the snow, his friends come to help him and soon they are enjoying the snow together.
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From Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson and Academy Award winning producer Odessa Rae, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since World War II. Rapper Abu Hajar, together with other celebrated creative personalities of the Syrian uprising, a Post-Rock musician (Anas Maghrebi), members...
10) Payback
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After a successful heist, Porter is left for dead. Once he recovers, he seeks vengeance and wants his share of the money. PAYBACK is a remake of the 1967 film noir classic *Point Break* also based on the novel *The Hunter* by Donald E. Westlake.
11) Combat Sheep
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A group of four ex-Army mascots (sheep!) have found themselves on the scrap-heap of life: the army no longer wants them and they are now misfits in society. As they re-group, under Commander Harris, they come to the realisation that their military training could serve them a purpose in life, and they become 'Combat Sheep', employing deft means of escape, disguise, and bluff to get them out of some truly ridiculous situations.
12) Take a Chance
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Archie Burton is watching the exercising of his horses, one of which, TAKE A CHANCE, is entered for the Gold Cup. With Burton is Grayson, his trainer. Grayson's wife, Cicely, arrives. She is irritated by her husband's seeming indifference towards her and is friendly with Carfax, a young man whose real object is to learn the secrets of her husband's stables ...
13) Just say yes
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When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
14) Off the rails
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Mihi ever after volume 3
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Mihi and her friends head back to the Rainbow Realm to save Princess Pat from a destructive quest.
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"Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week and her only plans are to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, hang out with her best friend, Henry, and avoid her former best friend-turned enemy (and neighbor), Mack. But things go awry when Ivy wakes up one morning to find Weston, the gorgeous and very fictional main character of H-MAD, in her bedroom, claiming to be her soul mate. Ivy's fanfic writing has somehow brought Weston as she's...
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At 24, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She's sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet--a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds--introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she's preferred women to men for years now, she soon...
17) Home Fries
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Desperate to discover the identity of her husband Henry's mistress, Mrs. Lever (Catherine O'Hara) orders her sons, Dorian (Luke Wilson) and Angus (Jake Busey), to scare their stepfather into telling the truth. But instead of merely frightening Henry, Dorian and Angus give the man a heart attack. Even worse, the brothers soon discover that Sally Jackson (Barrymore), the very beautiful—and very pregnant—drive-through cashier at Burger-Matic, hears...
18) Time to make art
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When a little girl asks meaningful questions about creating art, her questions are answered by a diverse group of artists throughout time and history, in this inspiring picture book that encourages young readers to see the artist in themselves.
19) H4
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H4 translates Shakespeare's plays, Henry IV parts I and II, into a futuristic Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community.
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