John Gallagher
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English
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Although his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) worked to create moments of surprise, serenity, and delight in distinctive buildings around the world. In his adopted home of Detroit, where he lived and worked for the last half of his life, Yamasaki produced many important designs that range from public buildings to offices and private residences. In Yamasaki in...
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Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher's salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world's biggest celebrities. Long-time sportscaster John Gallagher has had close to four decades of hosting some of the top-rated radio and TV shows in Canada and, while he was at it, doing enough drugs to wipe out a small village. Along the way there was plenty of drinking, cavorting,...
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English
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Michael Benedikt (1935-2007), who has been occasionally grouped with the New York School poets, as well as James Tate and Russell Edson, published five books of poetry in his lifetime, and edited several anthologies, including the influential The Prose Poem (1976) and The Poetry of Surrealism (1974). This collection brings together for the first time work from all five of those long out-of-print volumes-along with work from his five unpublished manuscripts,...
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English
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The first black American in the NHL tells his story Val James became the first African American player in the NHL when he took to the ice with the Buffalo Sabres in 1982, and in 1987 he became the first black player of any nationality to skate for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Born in central Florida, James grew up on Long Island and received his first pair of skates for his 13th birthday. At 16, James left home to play in Canada, where he was the only...
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Max Meow volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Max Meow and Mindy the Scientist go back in time in a time machine shaped like a taco."--
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Series
Max Meow volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Something strange is going on with Kittyopolis's bees and Max and Mindy need to figure it out to save the bees and Mindy's mom's campaign for Mayor"--
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English
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Rory is born in poverty on a Caribbean island. To give him a chance at a good life, his parents send him to an aunt and uncle in Brooklyn. Rory's dream is to return and rescue his parents from the "hellish island". For sixteen years his dream drives him to excel in everything he does. He returns to the island, but he's too late.
Heartbroken, Rory researches Irish history and discovers 50,000 Irish, including his ancestors, were sold into slavery...
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English
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On his way home for Thanksgiving, Tom MacDonald, a management consultant in the payment industry, learns about a conspiracy led by the Chairman of a leading credit card company, Wasim Mizra. Amid droughts, famine, and collapsing economies, world leaders plan to use a worldwide single currency payment system to control the rationing of food and gas. Mirza intends to highjack the system on Christmas day to fulfill his dark intentions. Tom and his girlfriend,...
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Series
Max Meow volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"After taking a bite of a radioactive space meatball, Max, a regular cat living in Kittyopolis, gains superpowers and begins to fight crime alongside his scientist friend Mindy"--
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Decal Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
13) Come play
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Oliver is a lonely young boy who feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses Oliver's devices against him to break into our world, Oliver's parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.
15) Abandoned
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned follows the sharply intense lives of a mother, father, and infant son as they move into a remote farmhouse, which harbors a dark, tragic history.
16) Underwater
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Based on a true story, the film centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
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FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, the center is built upon repenting for same sex attraction. In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners, including the amputee stoner Jane and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit Adam. Together, this group of teenagers forms...
19) Peppermint
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A revenge story focusing on a young mother who finds herself with nothing to lose, and is now going to take from her enemies the very life they took from her.
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This first volume in a middle-grade anthology series with Marvel Comics, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator John Jennings, features all of your favorite Marvel super heroes in original six-page stories written and illustrated by some of the biggest names in comics for young readers. These mighty team-ups include: Black Panther: Jerry Craft (New Kid), Wiccan: Mike Curato (Flamer), Miles Morales Spider-Man: C. G. Esperanza (Soul Food...