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421) Chicken soup for the soul: my kind (of) America : 101 stories about the true spirit of our country
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"These 101 stories showcase an America filled with good people who volunteer in their communities, help their neighbors, and pride themselves on doing the right thing"--Back cover.
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate Renee Fleming curates a collection of essays from leading scientists, creative arts therapists, educators, healthcare providers and artists about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief, to enhancing...
426) No regrets
Publisher
New Kingdom Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A stewardess, after twelve years of dating, along with several marriage proposals in between, meets a business man going through a divorce on one of her job layovers. Sparks fly, unexpectedly a traumatic past is revealed, and the couples lives are changed forever.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers,"...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 'class enemies'--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional conflict that rocked China during the Cultural Revolution....
429) Neptune frost
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Kinyarwanda
Description
Multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman bring their unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision. It is a sci-fi-punk-musical that's a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that they have been exploring in their work, including on Williams' 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. It takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Amy Clipston's Basket of Sunshine, Kevin Weaver and Phoebe Kurtz must decide whether to take a chance on love, despite their age difference. In Kelly Irvin's Candlelight Sweethearts, Esther Marie Shrock and Jasper Cotter bond during a grocery store power outage. In Kathleen Fuller's Reeling in Love, fishing buddies Nina Stoll and Ira Yoder need some prodding to realize they're each other's perfect catch. In Vannetta Chapman's Picnics and Prospects,...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Evergreen Love: Ryan Lapp had promised to marry Lorene Bontrager as soon as he was able to build them a house, but the day never came. Ryan moved away. Five years later, Lorene has settled in to her old maid role, and she's shocked when her younger sister announces her quick engagement to Ryan's younger brother. As they rush to plan the wedding, Lorene is constantly around the family she almost joined. Worse, she's forced to face Ryan himself, who...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Intersection: Separated from his wife, an architect has an affair with a writer, but remains emotionally torn between the two women, leaving his future happiness and that of his 13-year-old daughter, hanging in the balance.
Nights in Rodanthe: Adrienne Willis is a woman with her life in chaos. She retreats to the small coastal town in the Outer Banks where she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs. She has a wayward husband who has...
433) Tales of Manhattan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Just before the opening of his new Broadway show, famed actor Paul Orman is fitted with a new formal tail coat by his tailor. The tailor nervously admits that the coat was cursed by a dismissed cutter, who swore that it would bring misfortune to anyone who wore it, but Orman does not care. After a well-received performance, Orman instructs his valet, Luther, to drive him to the country estate of Ethel Halloway. Ethel was once Orman's paramour, but...
Series
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With frequent stops at pop culture meccas, and unforgettable encounters with humans of singular interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces listeners not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them, and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way listeners have come to expect from NPR.