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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved...
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English
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"How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town," is a fun-filled social history about the evolution of a once tiny, working-class, ethnic, mining town into one of today's major destination tourist towns and recreation communities that cater to the recreation needs of both its upper-middle class visitors and residents alike. That transformation occurred in the post-WWII period as our nation was moving from the industrial revolution into the industrial age,...
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Cinder spires volume 1
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English
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"Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting...
4) Indelicacy
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid,...
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English
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Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's most prestigious private school on a scholarship. But amid the wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn't always fit in. Then one devastating photo changes everything. Finch snaps a picture of Lyla...
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2020.
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English
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"Some women make headlines; an icon defies them. A vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. Hungry for her art and hopeful for the future, young Grace Kelly has the world at her feet. MGM's rising queen is poised to win the Oscar, but she chafes at the studio's increasing restrictions on her life. When an unexpected friendship develops between her...
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English
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"Spanning 30 years of American history, from the twilight of Kennedy's Camelot to the days leading up to Bill Clinton's election, We Are All Good People Here explores the intimate and complex friendship between Eve Whalen and Daniella Strum. Eve, privileged child of an old Atlanta family, meets Daniella in the fall of 1962, on their first day at the all-girls Belmont College in Virginia, where the two are paired as roommates and become fast friends....
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Home Box Office
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English
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In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pestilence the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. A sweeping epic that focuses on the primordial conflict of good vs. evil, as played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California.
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English
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A gentle but plucky English widow goes to Siam in 1862 to educate the king's wives and children in the ways of western culture. She subtly influences the volatile king, whose avidity for scientific knowledge and enlightenment often conflicts with his traditional arrogance and his adherence to the customs of his country.
10) Metropolis
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Kino International
Pub. Date
[2010]
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2 videodisc (148 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 film notes booklet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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English
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The future. Metropolis is a wonderful city, high above the ground its towers stand. The people prosper, the economy is flourishing, the suspended streets are busy. But Metropolis also has a great secret, so hidden that not even Freder Fredersen, son of founder Joh Fredersen knows about it. He is spending his free time in the Eternal Gardens, when suddenly a woman shows up, with what looks like a class of children. They're from the City of Workers,...
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The Invisible Press
Pub. Date
©2019.
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xiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"To reach the heart of a great story, writers must cross the treacherous terrain of personal, social and mythological urgings aching for release. To help writers navigate the chaos and disorder of a story's arrival, this guide brings forth a legendary compass built of the creative wisdom of our literary ancestors and calibrated to the brilliant teachers of our time. The Universal Grammar of Story is an essential theory of storytelling revealing precisely...
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