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17141) Catch Me If You Can
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Catch Me If You Can is the true story of Frank W. Abagnale—alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo—one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.
In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a sociology
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2013
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Despite our best efforts, we're all vulnerable to believing things without using logic or having proper evidence—and it doesn't matter how educated or well read we are. But there is a method for avoiding such pitfalls of human nature, and it's called skepticism. By using rational inquiry and seeing subjects from a scientific perspective, we can approach even the most sensitive claims with clear eyes to ultimately arrive at the truth. During
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.
DISC 1: 1. Prologue 2. Shift & Puzzle 3. Aslan in Narnia? 4. The King's Rashness 5. Lord Shift 6. Tirian the Captive 7. Help Arrives 8. Weapons and Preparation
DISC 2: 1. A Good Night's Work 2. "The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs!" 3. Poggin's Story 4. Tash Has Come 5. Narnia Is no More 6. The Great Bonfire Meeting 7. A...
17145) Murder beyond the grave
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The...
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[2011]
Description
When Louis Gilbert turned in his detective badge to become an Anglican priest, he thought his days of solving difficult mysteries were over. Now, as the vicar of an ancient church in a small English village, Gilbert finds himself as the center of one strange mystery after another. And he brings to each one his unique combination of streetwise smarts and spiritual intuition.
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2023.
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In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit...
17148) The Literature of C.S. Lewis
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Pub. Date
2004
Description
14 lectures that "look at Lewis's life and examine the influences that would help to shape Lewis as a man and as a writer".
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2020.
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Every night when he was a boy, Jose M. Hernandez would look out the window and stare at the stars. They were different colors: blue, yellow and white. Some were larger and brighter than others, and some twinkled as if they were alive. Later, when he saw man land on the moon on TV, he knew he wanted to be an astronaut. But Jose̹ struggled in school because his family moved constantly and he didn't speak English. His parents were migrant workers...
17150) Exploring Flight!
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A new addition to the Questioneers series, a full-color nonfiction early reader series based on the new Ada Twist, Scientist Netflix series!
Why do airplanes look the way they do? Why can't birds fly when they're first born? And why do some paper planes fly farther than others?
Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Discover everything there is to know about flight from Ada Twist,...
17151) Masked rider
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Ten full hours of bullets, bank robbers, and brotherhood from 1954, including several rare episodes.
17152) Gunsmoke: dead or alive
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"By the 1956-57 season, Gunsmoke had reached the peak of its dramatic power as radio's foremost adult western, with its powerful scripts and careful characterizations."... "The citizens of Dodge City, Kansas emerged as living, breathing embodiments of frontier America in radio dramas that represent the medium at its most potent. Experience 27 hard-hitting adventures from this landmark season in this 10 disc collection!"--Container.
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