John Kelly
1) The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
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English
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Chronicles the Great Plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century, documenting the experiences of people who lived during its height while describing the decline of moral boundaries that also marked the period.
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Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"It's time for Bear to hibernate, but he just can't get to sleep because his cave is crowded with all of his friends. Raccoon snores, Beaver fidgets, and Skunk doesn't exactly smell too good. So Bear gets a great idea and reserves a room at the Hibernation Hotel. "This is the life!" he exclaims, eating all the snacks he wants and bouncing up and down on the bed. But for some reason, at bedtime, he still can't sleep. Could something be missing?"--Goodreads....
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.
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Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Oscar is SO excited, because his parents have finally said he can have a pet! But he doesn't have any idea what kind to get. So he puts an ad in the newspaper in the hopes that the perfect pet will come to live with him. But soon, too many animals show up at his house, and it's CHAOS!
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Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. And unofficially he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin -- the man who had starved four million Ukrainians to death in the early 1930s, another million in the purges of the late 1930s, and a further million in the labor camps of the Gulag -- was worth saving. Hopkins sensed...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
Until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping throughout most of the year, but climate change has reduced the pack ice. Go on one of the first scientific expeditions through the Passage, focusing on the effects of climate change in this Artic region.
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Burt Munro, a Kiwi from far south New Zealand has been building and rebuilding his motorcycle for the last 40 years, dreaming of the day when he and the bike can go to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats and see what they can really do. When Burt's heart goes bad on him, his dreaming is threatened to come to an end. Luckily, Burt is not ready to stop dreaming. He decides to mortgage his house and bring his dream to life. He and the motorcycle head for American...
12) Small town crime
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic ex-cop seeks justice for the murder of a teen prostitute.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and...
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout the world.
Awakening: An introduction to the main characters...
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