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Author
Series
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Using fun, hands-on projects, learn what a circuit is and how it works! This book uses a common tool in electronics, the breadboard, to build your way to an understanding of circuits, circuit components, and the basics of computers. You'll master current, voltage, and resistance. With that you can control outputs like lights and motors as well as inputs like switches and sensors. You'll also discover the difference between analog and digital electrical...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Friday night, and these kids are ready to wrestle! Join Dangerous Daddoo as he dishes out some serious moves to get the kids ready for bed. But what happens when Flying Mom Bomb gets home from work? Are the kids toast? --from Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A funny, quirky picture book based on a little-known historical event -- and an introduction to one of history’s most notable figures, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte's most crushing defeat is widely thought to have been at the Battle of Waterloo -- but have you heard about that time he was defeated by a horde of cute, fluffy bunnies? We call it Bunnyloo. It was the summer of 1807, after Napoleon and Tsar Alexander of Russia signed a treaty...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fighting for land is a tale as old as time. So, when two of the great ancient empires -- Egypt and Persia -- set their sights on the Fertile Crescent, it seemed an epic battle was on the horizon. At first, Cambyses II, the ruler of Persia, proposed love not war, asking to marry his rival's daughter. Amasis, the Egyptian pharaoh, agreed, but then sent an imposter instead of his beloved princess. The claws were out! Cambyses thought of everything he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As World War I swept Europe, young Americans prepared to join the cause ... well, half of them did. Women were supposed to stay prim and proper at home. But Adeline and Augusta -- ahem, Addie and Gussie -- Van Buren had been taught to skate, swim, and even box. They knew women could do much more than sit around in petticoats. The sisters decided to prove this by writing strongly worded letters. No, no, of course not, Addie and Gussie were fighters!...
6) The tale
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
The Tale is a fictional narrative starring Laura Dern as the adult documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Fox, and Isabele Nelisse as her 13-year-old self. -- filmmakermagazine.com
A groundbreaking film memoir, based on the filmmaker's own personal experiences, this HBO Films presentation tells the story of Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern), a globetrotting documentarian and professor living an apparently enviable life with her boyfriend (Common) in NYC. That world...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
9) Nightcrawler
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
10) The last duel
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
King Charles VI declares that knight Jean de Carrouges must settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
11) Duplicity
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ex-CIA officer Claire Stenwick and ex-MI6 agent Ray Koval are both racing to secure the formula for a product that will bring untold wealth to the company that lands the patent first. As the stakes begin to rise, so does the passion between Claire and Ray. Meanwhile, their mutual employers, industry giant Howerd Tully and trailblazing CEO Dick Garsil start resorting to some seriously underhanded tactics as each hopes to gain an advantage over the...
12) Michael Clayton
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
13) The informant!
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
14) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
15) Office space
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In this screwball comedy, a cubicle slave tires of mind-numbing corporate life and actively tries to get fired. Instead, his "straight-shooting" attitude gets him promoted, where he can play out his grand embezzling scheme.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
17) Kung Fu Panda 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Po's long-lost panda father suddenly reappears, the reunited duo travels to a secret panda paradise to meet scores of hilarious new panda characters. But when the supernatural villain Kai begins to sweep across China defeating all the kung fu masters, Po must do the impossible-learn to train a village full of his fun-loving, clumsy brethren to become the ultimate band of Kung Fu Pandas.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With their hearts set on transforming into humans, white fox Dilah and his friends continue their quest, discovering hostile terrain, new friends, fearsome enemies, and an enchanted forest that may be the answer to all their prayers"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Red sparrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Scrat's constant quest for an acorn causes a shift in the ice. Manny, Sid, and Diego end up stranded on an iceberg in the middle of the sea. A group of misfit pirates are determined to stop the trio from ever returning home.
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