James Naughton
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Make way for ducklings: After raising her ducklings on an island on the Charles River in Boston, Mrs. Mallard leads her brood to their permanent home in the Public Garden; Time of wonder: Simple rhythmic words that are the essence of pure poetry describe the Maine island that is the home of the author; The doughnuts: Homer is suddenly surrounded by growing stacks of doughnuts when the doughnut machine he is tending goes berserk -- it won't shut off,...
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The little old lady who was not afraid of anything: Once upon a time, there was an old lady who was not afraid of anything! Clomp, clomp, shake, shake, clap, clap. And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life!
Los gatos black on Halloween: The monsters crowd the haunted hall. Los monstruo throw a monstrous ball. This lively poem introduces a spooky array of creatures and Spanish words to little niños everywhere.
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64) Creepy carrots!
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"In this hilarious picture book, "The Twilight Zone" comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his favorite treats are out to get him."--Container.
67) Antigone
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A filmed play adaptation from the Jean Anouilh reinterpretation of the Sophocles tragedy. First written and produced during the Nazi Occupation, this play about a young woman facing a morally corrupt world raises powerful questions of human interaction in regard to collaboration, responsibility and personal integrity.
69) The bunker
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A dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin, before and during the battle for the city.
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Louis L'Amour's lost treasures volume 2
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Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them with his charm and good looks. The southern...
71) Blind faith
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The story of the murder of Maria Marshall, the trial of her husband for her murder, and its effect on the couple's three sons.
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Camel Club volume 1
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"The Camel Club exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric members whom society has forgotten. One man leads this ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's leaders accountable to its citizens. Yet never in Stone's...
74) Childless
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The sudden passing of a teenage girl unsettles the four adults in her life. Jarred by this glimpse of mortality, they struggle to understand, or justify, the current state of their own lives. As each gets ready for the funeral, they speak their private thoughts directly to the camera, leaving it up to the viewer to make sense of these off-kilter, self-serving, yet frequently humorous accounts of the family story.
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News breaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security. House of Bush, House of Saud begins with a politically explosive question: How is it that two days after 9/11, when U.S. air traffic was tightly restricted, 140 Saudis, many immediate kin to Osama Bin Laden,...