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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable color and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous creatures in the sixteenth century, they believed they must be from heaven and called them Birds of Paradise. The people of New Guinea make even greater claims. They say the birds possess supernatural powers and magic. But to find these birds in New Guinea and to witness their extraordinary mating displays...
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Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable color and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous creatures in the sixteenth century, they believed they must be from heaven and called them Birds of Paradise. The people of New Guinea make even greater claims. They say the birds possess supernatural powers and magic. But to find these birds in New Guinea is one of the toughest assignments, and to witness...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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National Bestseller: The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume.
The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television.
Included...
The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television.
Included...
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English
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The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume. The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu-where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties-these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television. Included in this three-book collection are: My Family and Other Animals: Ten-year-old...
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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(Hummingbirds): "Hummingbirds represent one of nature's most interesting paradoxes-they are the tiniest of birds, yet they qualify as some of the toughest and most energetic creatures on the planet. Stunningly beautiful high-definition, high-speed footage of hummingbirds in the wild combined with high-tech presentations of their remarkable abilities help us to understand the world of hummingbirds as we never have before."--
(Birds of the gods): "The...
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English
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Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding...
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Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple. He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing. But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow...
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BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Celebrate Christmas in Hope Valley
Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Whether it's in the fictional town of Hope Valley in the early 1900s or in our lives today, nothing is more profound than celebrating God's most important gift to the world.
When God Calls the Heart at Christmas is about a celebration of faith, family, friends, and the most meaningful Yuletide traditions. Inspired by best-selling author
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When the Lord Daimyo's son is poisoned, Lily must prove her father is innocent of the crime. Can a lonely girl born in the Year of the Tiger save her family without revealing a forbidden connection to the old gods? Prequel short story for the Tiger Lily medieveal Japanese fantasy series.
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Follow Your Heart to Hope Valley Inspired by best-selling author Janette Oke and the Hallmark Channel original TV series When Calls the Heart, these forty devotions from Hope Valley are about finding moments of grace, joy, and beauty amid the unexpected circumstances of life. In this collection, Brian Bird, executive producer and co-creator of When Calls the Heart, and Michelle Cox illuminate the "God-moments" from the fictional, 1910 mining town...
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Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our...
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An autobiography of a boy born in 1941 in South Texas. When he arrived on the scene his family
consisted of Dad, Mom, Older brother, and ? The perfect family in those days was in sight. Unfortunately the baby was not the little sister all had hoped for. He sensed he was a disappointment to those who should have loved him most. Living a life feeling unacceptable is a tall order. Ray P. did the best he could. Everything changed when he turned 16....
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THE LORD GOD BIRD is a startling novella filled with dark images of America in the South in 1949. Jake Hamrick, a 19-year-old who has been obsessed since childhood with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird that is on the verge of extinction, leaves Illinois for Louisiana to find the creature, accompanied by Robin, his tiny girlfriend. They search in the bayous where the bird was last reported, and Robin, as obsessed as Jake, dresses like the bird,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 God may not do something when you want him to do it, but he will always, always, be ridiculously late.
#2 God doesn't do anything when you want him to, but he will always be ridiculously late.
#3 Waiting is a painful but necessary part of the process of learning to rely on God.
#4 Waiting is a painful but necessary part of the process of learning to rely on God....
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We often worry about things that are out of our control, it is human nature. We devise plans to solve every problem that could possibly arise, losing sight of Who is in control. God reminds us many times throughout His Word that He is in control and will supply our every need according to His will.
He does this numerous times throughout scripture by comparing His children to the birds of the air. In the book of Matthew, Jesus asks us to consider...
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First comes love, then comes marriage...
Bu,t what if it isn't love? What if it's about control and power for one person? In this compelling narrative, Laura Fiorentino takes the reader on the journey of her lifetime as she discovers what it means to hold on to family and love.
When she was a child and her father died from an illness, young Laura tried to make sense of the world. Why did this happen and where did he go? With a remote mother and the...
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English
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I am an ordinary man who traveled through some extremely painful events physically, mentally, and emotionally that took me to the brink of death. My story is about an amazing connection with God that was, built at the lowest moments of my life. God gave me something I can't ignore any longer. God chose to reveal Himself to me in the most unusual way that led me to use skills I did not know I possessed so I could convey my conversations from the misunderstood...
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Does God care about combat veterans?
This book is the author's effort to show that God does care, and that He is always working to vie us healing and a meaningful life.
Freedom Bird challenges the political, emotional, and irrational climate that surrounded the Vietnam War. The author aims to have readers see the failure of human endeavors that leave the counsel of God out of the picture. This is contrasted with the difference that God's grace, love,...
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