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With Safe Harbor under the control of a dangerous new leader, the stakes are higher than ever. Known as a "planet killer," Earth's largest supervolcano shows signs of erupting. Now the clock is ticking as the mission's timeline is reduced to only months. Ben and his friends are slammed into new roles as mission specialists and forced to complete their training as warriors in weeks instead of years. Their search for solutions takes them from a secret...
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Donald McCaig's heartwarming and suspenseful novel about a sheepdog's devotion to his master and his job is a modern classic that James Herriot hailed as "poignant, authentic, and beautiful" On Christmas Day, Virginia livestock farmer Lewis Burkholder and Nop, his black-and-white border collie, go out to feed the sheep. But the holiday is shattered when Nop fails to return home. Stolen by two hardened criminals who see in the young stock dog a $300...
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When she was not yet a teenager, Kate Hope started "reading law" in the office of "Judge" Hope, her half-blind grandfather, a grumpy eighty-nine-year-old lawyer with problems. One big problem is that he believes in justice for all, not just those who can afford it. He also needs a partner. Together they find a loophole in Colorado law, and Kate becomes a lawyer-technically. She has a law license hanging on the wall in her office, but she has no idea...
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Debra was nearly nine months pregnant with Rachel when the family car was destroyed by a drunk driver. Both should have been killed, but neither received a scratch. Was it a miracle?
Seventeen years later, a high school friend confides in Rachel that she is pregnant and, though considering abortion, asks for Rachel’s advice to determine what path to take. Rachel agrees to help, but she is troubled by the request. It becomes a heavy burden for such...
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The little-known story of the first witch hunt in New England-nearly half a century before Salem. Connecticut's witch-hunt was the first and most ferocious in New England, occurring almost fifty years before the infamous Salem witch trials. Between 1647 and 1697, at least thirty-four men and women from across the state were formally charged with witchcraft. Eleven were hanged. In New Haven, William Meeker was accused of cutting off and burning his...
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War Trials tells the gripping and in-depth true story of a British soldier's role in the drowning of an Iraqi teenager in May 2003, the devastating investigation and resulting court martial. This narrative non-fiction tracks the soldier's life from a tight-knit broken family home in Merseyside through deadly urban conflict in the Middle East, to a different battle fought against PTSD while he awaited a military tribunal back in the UK. The military...
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With the powerful words that marked her long and distinguished career, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick explores where America has gone wrong-and raises lingering questions about what perils tomorrow might hold. In Making War to Keep Peace, the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN traces the course of diplomatic initiatives and armed conflict in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo to illuminate the dangerous shift from the first Bush administration's ambitious...
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Mommy Memoirs is a delightful journey from pregnancies and births to marriages and a hysterectomy! There are few stones left unturned as author Ann Van De Water describes her hectic life as a mother of three boys in short read-it-and-run stories that will have her audience laughing out loud one minute and grabbing tissues the next. These true-to-life experiences filled with humor, tenderness, practicality, and joy, written by a been there, done that...
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Morwen and Fauxon made it home from 1968, but there's no time to relax! The Creator of Magic said they are abusing their powers and doing more harm than good.
Morwen has to prove she is worthy of magic, the Guild, and herself. She's facing seven trials with family and friends as her accusers. Can she survive the emotional toll of each person's accusations?
She has to convince the judges, and most importantly herself that her actions in the Guild...
10) Save The Date
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IFC Films
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2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin. When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan, she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability. With honesty, heart, and humor, she struggles with the trials, happiness, and pain of modern love. In the end Sarah must decide - is it better to stay...
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Pragda
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2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Thanks to recently declassified documents, A HISTORY OF AN ASSIGNMENT uncovers an unknown episode of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The threat of nuclear conflict was not eliminated by the Khrushchev-Kennedy negotiations. Indeed, Fidel Castro, who was not invited to take part in the talks, learned about them from the press and was greatly hurt to see Cuba become a bargaining chip between the USSR and the USA and his own role reduced to that of an extra....
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