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1) A web
Author
Publisher
Peter Pauper Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a spider as it collects items to decorate its web from a landscape filled with insects, leaves, flowers, feathers, and seeds, all labeled for identification.
3) Land girls
Series
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 223 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
4) Daredevil
Language
English
Formats
Description
By day, blind attorney Matt Murdock toils for justice in Hell's Kitchen. By night, he's Daredevil, a man without fear. He's a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets with an uncanny "radar sense" that allows him to see with superhuman capabilities. When the love of his life is targeted by New York City's ruthless Kingpin and his deadly assassin, Bullseye, Daredevil may be about to meet his match.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An oddball couple of private detectives named Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon and quickly discover all is not as peaceful as it seems in this little theatre town.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an abandoned house and a vineyard an ocean away. Mauro travels to Andalusia de Jerez in Spain with every intention of selling the property and returning to Mexico. That is, until he meets the unsettling Soledad Montalvo, the wife of...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents thirteen tales about the sorrows, joys, and constants of modern China, including the story of an awkward youth who uses the perks of his government to court two women and a couple who toils in factories only to learn that their son has been wasting their money.
Author
Publisher
Fernwood Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Providing a concise chronicle of its various cultures, this handy reference recounts the broad and complex history of Nova Scotia, Canada. Beginning with an exploration of its indigenous people, the Mi'Kmaq, this overview delves into the stories of the first European settlers before reviewing the dominant English colonists and how they shaped the province. Documenting the different challenges each group faced, this reconstruction illustrates the Mi'Kmaq's...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 353 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Using copious materials--including diaries and scrapbooks--from the castle's archives, the current Countess of Carnarvon tells the story of Catherine Wendell, the beautiful and spirited American woman who married Lady Almina's son, the man who would become the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, while paying particular attention to the staff who offer the Castle continuity between generations.
14) Gaelic Scotland
Publisher
Arc Music (UK)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (61 minutes)
Language
Gaelic
Publisher
Reliance Big Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
A woman leaves her husband on the first day of their marriage after discovering that he doesn't have a toilet. He desperately sets out on a mission to win back his love by standing up to the age-old traditions and values of India.
16) Vessel: a memoir
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First HarperVia hardcover [edition].
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son. Assuming his new role as head of the family, Cai toils alongside his mother and older sister to pay the medical bills that have become a part of a rapidly changing Chinese society. As Cai works his way through...
17) Waste tide
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of these clans, a role passed down from his father and...
19) Corpo celeste
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min., 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Having recently returned to her native Italy after living in Switzerland for 10 years, quiet but curious 13-year-old Marta is left to her own devices while her loving but worn-out mother toils away at an industrial bakery. Marta's only source of socialization is the local church, where she is sent to attend preparatory classes for her confirmation. But the doctrines of Roman Catholicism offer little in terms of life lessons or consolation, and she...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Neolution is pushing the boundaries of science beyond what anyone thought possible. But at what cost? The mysterious P.T. Westmoreland is the key to all of it. Seemingly 170 years old, he is on the brink of bringing his project to its sinister conclusion. For Sarah and her sisters, this is the start of a deadly endgame that will have extreme consequences--not just for them, but for the future of the entire human race.
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