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6124) Imagina
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
¿Alguna vez imaginó lo que podría ser cuando sea mayor? Cuando era muy joven, Juan Felipe Herrera recogía flores de manzanilla en campos ventosos y dejaba que los renacuajos nadaran en sus manos en un arroyo. Dormía afuera y aprendía a despedirse de sus amiguitos cada vez que su familia se mudaba a un nuevo pueblo. Fue a la escuela y aprendió a leer y escribir inglés por sí mismo y llenó blocs de papel con ríos de tinta mientras caminaba...
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Wenders became fascinated by the craft and philosophy of Japanese fashion designer, Yohji Yamamoto, as he prepares his new season's collections. Wenders uncovers the essence of Yamamoto's work while exploring the enigma of style, the language of images and the very nature of human identitiy.
6126) House of Gucci
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape, any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the government. They were blocked by prejudice, jealousy, and the...
6128) Pollock
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition.
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Description
"Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew. Then, on March 24, 2005, FBI agents arrested her and her father. Falsely accused of being a potential suicide bomber, she spent weeks in a...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Description
Blevins offers a tribute to the "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West. Stories include those of John Colter, who escaped captivity by the Blackfeet Indians, and Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear and crawled 300 miles for help.
Author
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
Presents a narrative documenting the transformation in George Washington's attitudes towards slavery, culminating in his determination to emancipate his slaves. Though raised as slaveowner, he began to see the evils of the system and grew to understand that the problem of the "peculiar institution" would become central to the American experience.
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
In this memoir, Haven Kimmel shines the spotlight on her mother Delonda, who, realizing she could change her life, got off the couch in her den, bought a used Volkwagen beetle, and went back to school, which gave her the chance to gain both self-respect and financial independence.
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Full screen ed.
Description
When America enters WWII in 1941, swing becomes a symbol of democracy, and entertainers like Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw take their music to the armed forces overseas. In Nazi-occupied Europe, gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt blends jazz with his own musical traditions. In New York Billie Holiday is unofficial queen despite a growing addiction to narcotics. Duke Ellington, assisted by the gifted young arranger, Billy Strayhorn, brings...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
6137) The King and I
Pub. Date
1999
Description
An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but ruins the country's traditions during her work.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Description
With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker that his family sent him to reform school. Race-car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her "girls cant drive." And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play. Kid Athletes tells all of their...
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