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Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years. (Fellow filmmaker John Marshall was the sound recordist.)
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Ivory and bone volume 1
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Debut author Julie Eshbaugh's sweeping prehistoric fantasy--with allusions to Pride and Prejudice--will enthrall listeners with high-stakes survival, blinding betrayal, and star-crossed love. Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe--that's the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined...
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Ivory and bone volume 2
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While working to secure her future with Kol, Mya finds herself facing an impossible choice when she learns her brother has arranged an unfavorable marriage.
6) First Fire
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Cold. Dark. Raw. Without light and heat, how would you live? Take a journey back to the Paleolithic Era and experience the dangers and benefits of facing fire for the first time. Explore how the earliest people learned to harness energy in this Reader's Theater script that offers differentiated roles with various reading levels to ensure that all students have the opportunity to succeed. A list of Tips for Performing Reader's Theater helps students...
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Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
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Geronimo Stilton. Cavemice volume 12
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When the Cavemice discover a giant oyster in the lagoon near Old Mouse City, they call on Geronimo Stiltonoot to help them fish it out of the water before the saber-toothed tigers find the pearl.
10) Shoo, caveflies!
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Geronimo Stilton. Cavemice volume 14
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When their cousin is stung by a cavefly and falls into a deep sleep, Geronimo and Thea set out in search of the rare pink stinkrose, whose petals are thought to provide a cure.
14) Stone underpants
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Pod lives in the Stone Age and finds that he often has a cold bottom! So he invents underpants! Unfortunately his choice of material is not always practical. Will he find something that is both warm and flexible, so he can play with his friends?
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It is very cold in the Stone Age. How will Pod keep warm? He invents . . . underwear! But what will he use to make them? With full-color illustrations and carefully leveled text, this humorous tale about creating the first pair of underwear introduces young children to reading.
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Lug volume 1
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"Lug is a cave boy who would rather paint than fight. When he is banished from his clan, he and his two friends discover that the Ice Age is coming, and must figure out how to save their people"--
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"Can Shinoni and Keena, two Ice Age teens separated from their tribes, overcome their differences to outwit their pursuer and survive the unforgiving wilds? The climate is changing, game is disappearing, and two peoples of the Ice Age compete for survival in a savage world. Keena, from a powerful band of Neanderthals, and Shinoni, daughter of a Cro-Magnon shaman, are torn from their families by Haken, a ruthless hunter. The girls dislike each other...
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