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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature
Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.
In 1908, near
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Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Improve Your Health with Gentle Tai Chi. Whether you hope to prevent cancer, are facing a current diagnosis, or are in recovery after treatment, exercise is known to be a crucial factor in your improved health. Higher physical activity is linked to lower cancer risk, and studies show strong evidence that exercise is a vital component for your ongoing wellbeing. The mind/body aspect of tai chi, with its soothing and gentle movements are an ideal form...
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese, Barbara Rubin, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Ridley Scott, and Ousmane...
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In traditional Chinese medicine, the gentle art of Qi gong allows one to consciously activate the body's natural healing intelligence and direct vital energy to the places in need of restoration and repair. Internationally acclaimed Qi gong master Lee Holden presents a step-by-step training video with easy-to-learn practices that will help viewers relieve pain, clear stress and tension, and harness the body's unequaled capacity for self-restoration....
87) Game girls
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Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Game Girls follows Teri and her girlfriend Tiahna as they navigate their relationship through the chaotic world of Los Angeles' Skid Row, aka the 'homeless capital of the U.S.' A dilemma fuels the tension between the two women, while Tiahna seems comfortable being a player in the underground economy of Skid Row, Teri is driven by a powerful desire to get out.
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Ballroom basics volume 7
Publisher
ZYX Music
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Presents instruction on dancing the jive and the samba.
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Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Jillian Michaels introduces a new yoga workout unlike any other. Combining hard-core yoga power poses with her dynamic training techniques, Michaels gets real weight-loss results fast. Contains two complete 30-minute workouts that include a warm-up and cool down. Begin with the Level 1 workout which focuses on quickly flowing yoga sequences to burn mega calories. Then progress to Level 2 which adds twists and balance poses for an even greater burn....
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English
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June 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, including animation, CGI, and stunning live-action images, the documentary brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time ever.
96) Hershey
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Series
Publisher
Kaleidocope Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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What a sweet treat! This title is packed with the history of The Hersey Company through narrative nonfiction, informative sidebars, Fun Facts, and more.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation--The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom,...
98) The Prince
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English
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The Prince has long been both praised and reviled for its message of moral relativism and political expediency. Although a large part is devoted to the mechanics of gaining and staying in power, Machiavelli's end purpose is to maintain a just and stable government. He is not ambiguous in stating his belief that committing a small cruelty to avert a larger is not only justifiable but required of a just ruler.Machiavelli gives a vivid portrayal of his...
99) Utopia
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English
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Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island in this political work written in 1516. Book I of Utopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty, crime, injustice, and other ills do not exist. Locating his island in the New World, More bestowed it with everything...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. As a child, she had been told he was "crazy," that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than she had been alive, and what little she knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed her his autobiography. Typewritten in all...
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