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4) The rivalry
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English
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Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates. This fierce rivalry between rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas tackled some of the day's most passionate and controversial issues - above all those of slavery and the American concept of freedom. As seen through the eyes of Douglas' young wife Adele (Lily
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Pub. Date
2016.
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xi, 90 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"Using her deep knowledge, her skills as a storyteller, and her imagination, Dava Sobel illuminates one of history's most significant and far-reaching meetings. In the spring of 1539, a young German mathematician--Georg Joachim Rheticus--journeyed hundreds of miles to northern Poland to meet the legendary, elderly cleric and reluctant astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Some two decades earlier, Copernicus had floated the mind-boggling theory that the...
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2021.
Physical Description
99 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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English
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"Canadian Rajah is the incredible -- and true -- story of Esca Brooke Daykin. He was the first-born son of the legendary "White Rajah of Sarawak" but was exiled from that country (a British colony, now part of Malaysia) to the backwoods of Eastern Ontario. Esca's very existence was erased from his birth country's history books. He waged a lifelong battle to have his true identity and parentage recognized. Esca's life spans continents, races, generations...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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100 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Five decades after Gloria Steinem began raising her voice for equality and championing the voices of others, she remains a lodestar for the American feminist movement. Emily Mann's new play traces the progress of Steinem's extraordinary life, including her time at Smith College, her undercover Playboy exposé, her mother's breakdown, the founding of Ms. magazine, and her deep involvement in the women's movement as an activist and organizer. This...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
40 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In 1856, 15-year-old Bella Lee Dunkinson began hanging around the local railroad in western Tennessee. Engineer John Hardiman took a liking to the spirited girl and gave her a boy's responsibilities helping with the engine. One stormy night, the engine was slipping dangerously on wet rails. While John was putting sand on the tracks, Bella found herself alone in the cab driving the train up a steep and dangerous mountainside. After her heroic and triumphant...
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English
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"This new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its original production. One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. This two-part epic, subtitled 'A Gay Fantasia...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
101 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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English
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"What You Won't Do for Love is an inspiring conversation about love and the environment. When artist Miriam Fernandes approached the legendary eco-pioneer David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expected to write about David's perspective as a scientist. Instead, she discovered the boundless vision and efforts of Tara Cullis, a literature scholar, climate organizer, and David's life partner. Miriam realized that David and...
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English
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"Disgusted and bored by the trend for titillation and sham on the London stage, Shaw wrote these plays both to educate and entertain his audiences. In The Devil's Disciple, a clergyman turned soldier and the Shavian ideal of a Puritan hero - 'like all genuinely religious men, a reprobate and an outcast' - willingly risks his life for a stranger. Caesar and Cleopatra, a brilliant satire on contemporary Britain, contains an utterly unexpected portrait...
14) I still believe
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 Blu-ray disc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The true life story of Christian music megastar Jeremy Camp and his remarkable journey of love and loss that proves there is always hope in the midst of tragedy, and that faith tested is the only faith worth sharing.
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Pub. Date
1958.
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x, 302 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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This volume is the first complete publication, in English, of Albert Camus's major work as a playwright before "The Possessed". All four plays are the superb stage pieces one would expect of a versatile man of the theater -- Camus was an actor, director, and adapter as well as a playwright -- and each testifies to the intense and lucid concern with moral problems characteristic of his more familiar fiction and essays. -- From publisher's description....
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