(0)Robert Redford
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Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves -- but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves. Wolf 8 struggles at first -- he is smaller than the other pups, and often bullied -- but soon he bonds with an alpha female whose mate was shot. An unusually young...
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300 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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This book presents an international look at sustainable home design, it explores a compelling range of design styles and cutting-edge green technologies. The rising cost of fuel and the growing commitment to protect the environment have sparked exciting innovations in prefab home construction around the world. Showcasing many of the unlimited possibilities offered by prefabrication to build incredibly energy-efficient homes, Prefabulous World features...
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233 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Prefab home construction has arrived. The benefits of buildings a prefab home (they are better built, use resources more efficiently, and are healthier to live in) apply just as well to vacation homes as they do to primary residences. Prefabulous Small Houses explores the beauty, variety, design, and environmentally positive benefits of prefab construction through the wide variety of prefabrication methods in use today and with prefabulous examples...
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2 videodiscs (343 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It tells the story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the United States transformed into the "land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Viewers will be transported into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws, and lawmen. The eight-episode limited event series chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull.
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1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follow the great Colorado River as it reveals the most pressing environmental story of our time, the world's growing shortage of fresh water. Join environmental advocates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Wade Davis as they travel the Grand Canyon.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Robert Redford plays an ex-world champion cowboy, reduced to huckstering breakfast food in a suit studded with flashing lights. Jane Fonda is a chic, sharp member of the electronic media, a TV newswoman who'll do anything to get a good story. When Redford rides out of a Las Vegas casino into the desert astride his sponsor's living symbol, a multi-million dollar racehorse, Jane is determined to discover why. She does, one step ahead of a posse of...
13) Quiz show
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption beneath the TV's hottest quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion and the disgruntled ex-champ.
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jim Grant is a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. Grant's world is turned upside down when a brash young reporter exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
17) The sting
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young con man teams up with a seasoned con man to win money from a criminal banker in 1930s Chicago.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The magical, musical story that shows believing can be the greatest gift of all. Follow the heartwarming journey of two orphan girls whose only wish is to find a home for Christmas. With a little help from their guardian angels, they discover that miracles really can happen when they find the power to believe.
19) Jeremiah Johnson
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
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1 videodisc (approximately 181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured their ranks compels the remaining to take one final stand in the grand conclusion to twenty-two films. -- Provided by publisher.