Craig Nelson
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English
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A New York Times Bestseller
"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."-The Wall Street Journal
Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched...
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Disney Pixar
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Bob Parr, Mr. Incredible, is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen, Elastigirl, is out saving the world.
"It's a solid double..."--Chicago Sun-Times.
"This one still delights..."--New York Daily News.
"This follow-up is every bit the start-to-finish sensation as the original..."--Rolling Stone.
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English
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Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America-Pearl Harbor-based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2014.
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English
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"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which three million Cambodians would die in the "killing fields." THE KILLING FIELDS is an epic story of friendship and survival produced by David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) and directed by Roland Joffé (The Mission). Sam Waterston plays Sydney Schanberg, whose war coverage entraps him and other journalists. Dr. Haing S. Ngor...
11) 3 women
Series
Criterion collection volume 230
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendent. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines.
12) Silkwood
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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The story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear facility worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
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