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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JUSTIN THEROUX, SEASON 2 STREAMING NOW
"An Impressive and disturbing vision of the American psyche."—Washington Post Book World
From legendary writer Paul Theroux, an international bestseller that is a spellbinding adventure story of an American family that rejects its homeland and tries to find a happier life in the jungles of Central America.
...Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (481 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fugitive: A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
Presumed innocent: Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola."--back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
"At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 148 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave college to seek employment during Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Herbie Gneiss works at a toy factory until he is drafted, prompting a former co-worker who has fallen in love with Herbie's mother to rob a bank run by a man they believe to be a communist.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 263 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author chronicles his present-day journey to find Ciudad Blanca, the legendary White City rumored to exist in the rain forests of Nicaragua's and Honduras' Mosquito Coast, following in the footsteps of the explorer and World War II spy Theodore Morde, who set out on the same journey on April 6, 1940.
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting exploration of the phenomenon of psychosomatic disorders, mass hysteria, and other culture-bound syndromes occurring around the world. In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 21 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the bayous and swamps east of New Orleans reside members of one of America's least-known ethnic group, the Spanish-speaking "Islenos" of St. Bernard Parish. Their ancestors came to this country over two hundred years ago from the Canary Islands off the West coast of Africa, and today their descendants continue to make a living as fishermen and trappers. This award-winning video documentary examines the Islenos' unique history and culture, which...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security. Accomplishing the impossible, Gideon steals the parchment--only to learn that hidden beneath the gorgeously illuminated image is a treasure...
14) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
xvii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Liquid Land, Ted Levin guides us past the dire headlines and into the magnificent swamp itself, where we come face-to-face with the plants, animals, and landscapes that remain and that will survive only if we protect them."
"Levin has traveled extensively through the Everglades, often in the company of such dedicated individuals as Archie Jones, the conchologist who for fifty years has been studying and rescuing tree snails, or Frank Mazzotti,...
Author
Publisher
Disruption Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
163 pages : map, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government--not because he liked the work, but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Charles was tasked with measuring the unmapped American landscape. Over the years, this would take him from being eaten up by mosquitos in Alaska, to eating steak...
17) Mules and men
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 309, 32 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Returning to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to gather material, Zora Neale Hurston recalls "a hilarious night with a pinch of everything social mixed with the storytelling." Set intimately within...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 75
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1001 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of Zora Neale Hurston's books were out of print. Today her groundbreaking works, suffused with the culture and traditions of African-Americans and the poetry of black speech, have won her recognition as one of the most significant African-American writers. This volume, with its companion, Novels & Stories, brings together for the first time all of Hurston's best writings in one authoritative set....
Author
Publisher
Distributed by H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
©1992
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Beautifully presented and accompanied by lively and informative essays, this volume presents for the first time the entire art collection of the White House. By tracing the development of the collection from 1800 to the present, Kloss covers the history of the events of the nation as well as a social history of the widely divergent tastes of the American populace. The book is divided into three parts: an overview of the collection's development is...
Author
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017, 2013]
Edition
Deluxe edition [3-in-1].
Physical Desc
634 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kurōzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. But the spirit that haunts it does not have a name or a body, only a shape: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It possessed the father of teenage Kirie's withdrawn boyfriend Shuichi, compelling him to end his life by remaking himself in its image. It grows in ferns, in seashells, in curls of hair, and in the twisting folds of the human brain. As events...
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