David Morse
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Series
Edens Lost and Found volume 3
Language
English
Description
This documentary focused on Philadelphia is hosted by actor and Philadelphia resident David Morse. It describes how concerned citizens like activists Doris Doris Gualtney and Iris Brown, muralist Jane Golden, sculptor Lily Yeh, musician Kenny Gamble, and gardener Mary Corby have come together to return the city to its Eden-like state through multiple environmental projects.
2) McCanick
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Language
English
Description
An out of control narcotics detective with a secret past hunts down a harmless low level criminal who knows the real truth about his past.
3) 12th Hour
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Language
English
Description
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm.
Author
Language
English
Description
With decades of experience in multicultural marketing, author David Morse reviews the history of marketing to black, Hispanic, Asian, and LGBTQ consumers. He explains how including appropriate cultural cues in advertising can build brand loyalty that will pay huge dividends. He also cautions that missing the mark with advertising that excludes or is culturally offensive can be a costly mistake. Replete with scores of examples of campaigns that have...
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Language
English
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Description
Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden.
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You Shes Sorry, and...
6) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Trouble is brewing in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on welcoming strangers, Village will soon be cut off to all outsiders. As one of the few able to traverse the forbidding Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village's closing and try to convince Seer's daughter Kira to return with him before it's too late. But Forest is now hostile to Matty as well. Now he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only...
7) Collaborator
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Language
English
Description
Childhood neighbors Robert, a liberal playwright, and Gus, a right-wing ex-con, experience an unusual reunion when Gus holds Robert hostage at gunpoint in this acclaimed film.
Author
Language
English
Description
Winter in the Blood is a hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer, the Twilight trilogy) wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes (Julia Jones), has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find...
10) Collaborator
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Robert Longfellow is a famous playwright who can't seem to catch a break. Retreating back to his childhood home to visit his mother, Robert crosses paths with his former neighbor Gus, a right-wing ex-con who is Robert's polar opposite in every possible way. When Gus holds Robert hostage at gunpoint during a drunken reunion gone terribly wrong, the two men unexpectedly bond until the mood darkens and shots ring out.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns...to even the score.
13) Extreme Measures
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Language
English
Description
Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
14) Indian Runner
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Language
English
Description
In his writing and directing debut, Sean Penn delivers a profound picture of two very different brothers, one a cop, one a lawbreaking Vietnam vet, who attempt to get through life...one day at a time.
15) The hurt locker
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with that of their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be...
Author
Series
Cross of Fire volume 2
Language
English
Description
Close to death, Madge is dumped at her home after being abducted and brutally raped by D.C. Stephenson. Convinced his power and social standing will protect him, Steve must stand trial for her death.
Author
Series
Cross of Fire volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Indiana, the Ku Klux Klan gains sociopolitical influence behind the charismatic David 'Steve' Stephenson, who preaches patriotism and morality over prejudice.
18) Passengers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, Claire, a young therapist, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. They share their recollections of the incident. Some say there was an explosion, but the airline claims it never happened. Claire becomes intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers. Despite her better judgment, her professional relationship with him blossoms into a romance. Then the survivors begin to disappear mysteriously,...
19) The negotiator
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"Maverick hostage negotiator Danny Roman is framed for embezzlement and murder. Newly-married and unjustly faced with prison, Roman turns hostage-taker to smoke out the guilty ones. Squaring off against him is respected, methodical negotiator Chris Sabian. Under siege and racing the clock, the two lock in a deadly battle of wits"--Container.