Paul Winfield
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Magic School Bus volume 1
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English
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The principal, Mr. Ruhle, leaves his beloved chicken, Giblets, in Dorothy Ann's care. The Friz takes the class on a field trip to see how eggs are made.
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Magic School Bus volume 7
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English
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Ms. Frizzle's class learns all about color, light beams, reflection and refraction in this dazzling episode inside a light-powered pinball machine!
23) Queen
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English
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The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
24) The terminator
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English
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In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
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Kids' ten commandments volume episode 2
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English
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While Seth's mother is away, he works for the greedy old man Jeshanah, who takes the name of the Lord in vain and works on the Sabbath.
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John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to the office. He was assassinated at the age of 46 in 1963. Arthur Ashe was an African American professional tennis player who won more than forty singles titles, including the Australian Open, the U.S. Open, and Wimbledon. He died in 1993 at the age of 49 of AIDS-related pneumonia contracted during heart bypass surgery years earlier.
But imagine if the lives...
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Magic School Bus volume 13
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English
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When Ms. Frizzle shrinks the class and sends them inside the computer for a guided tour, everything goes haywire. How the CPU will they solve this problem?
28) King
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English
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A powerful portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and events of the Civil Rights Movement leading up to his assassination.
29) Cliffhanger
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English
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Rocky Mountain rescue workers discover a distress call to locate five climbers is really a trap set by a merciless international terrorist, and millions of dollars and their own lives hang in the balance.
31) White dog
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Criterion collection volume 455
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English
Description
A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog.
32) Trouble man
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English
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"Cold as ice, hard as steel, and dressed to thrill, a private investigator known oly as "Mr. T" (Robert Hooks) is hired by two thugs to fing out who's stealing from their gambling operation. Armed with dealy martial arts mastery and an arsenal of weapons, T battles his way through a dangerous maze of violence, turf wars and even murder--while still finding time for the ladies"--Container.
33) Mike's murder
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English
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A frightening tale of a young woman who slips unexpectedly over the knife-edge that separates everyday reality from a shadowy world of drugs, violence and death.
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English
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A story of violence and desire, of tenderness and compassion, so gripping and moving, which lays bare the trials and sufferings, the yearings and aspirations of three generations of an African American family. The journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Herlem, seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather
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Magic School Bus Space Adventures volume 3
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English
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Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
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Magic School Bus Super Sports Fun volume 5
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English
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Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
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English
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After engaging in an affair, a lawyer finds himself suspected of his ex-lover's murder.
A suspense thriller, an American prosecutor finds himself the prime suspect in a sensational murder case, and discovers that the system of justice to which he once vigorously committed himself is now aggressively pursuing him and threatening to destroy his career, family and even his life.
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English
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"A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses"--Container.