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This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
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335 pages ; 24 cm
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"A thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident -- only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy"-- Provided by publisher
A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine -- a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who...
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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A heedless little boy and his dog slam the door as they run out to complete an errand, unknowingly dislodging a red ball that bounces through the neighborhood and triggers an escalating series of mishaps.
7) Apollo 13
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1 videodisc (2 hrs. 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
9) Timberline
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199 pages ; 22 cm.
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"1875-1885 high-country train wreck. Mountain man Maple Jack and Roamer trail the killers in a blizzard"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They'll need to work together to escape - with...
11) I remember you
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Leah and Samuel, two complete strangers who are involved in the same accident, are soon haunted by an overwhelming sense that they have met before. They develop an immediate, almost supernatural connection but Leah is gripped by a debilitating fear of water since the accident and her career and her sanity are at stake. She gradually discovers that meeting Samuel was not a coincidence, nd that they share an incredible past that they both are now.
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A drama that charts the emotional odyssey of a struggling novelist whose life is turned upside down one wintry night following a fatal car accident. The incident sets him on a soul searching, decades long journey towards redemption, a quest that profoundly touches the lives of both his girlfriend and the accident victim's mother.
15) Bang
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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When a driver, who is not paying attention to where he is going, crashes into a trash can, he sets off a series of accidents with unexpected outcomes.
16) Christmas angel
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1 videodisc (90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Eddie and Stewart's mother is struck by a car just before Christmas, her life hangs in the balance. As Eddie fights against time, he must produce a miracle. But even with some help from above, can he save her?
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting--a riveting history that reads like a thriller"-- Provided by publisher.
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"On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before, not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend...
19) Oopsie-do!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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". . . a lively and bouncy story about what to do when you make a mistake." -- Publisher description from front flap.
20) Gravity
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"Dr. Ryan Stone (Oscar winner Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Oscar winner George Clooney). On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the...
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