Björk
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English
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This ultimate guide to one of the world's most beautiful and fascinating island nations is packed with travel tips, cultural and historical facts, and insights from Icelanders into how we can all make our lives a little more Icelandic.
Known as 'The Land of Fire and Ice', Iceland is a country of contrasts, from the enormous glaciers to the active volcanoes, the summer midnight sun to the briefest of winter days, the ancient language to the modern...
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52 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Español
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A little girl visits the home and garden of Claude Monet at Giverny, France, and learns about the artist's paintings and his life. The illustrations include photographs of the painter and his family as well as examples of his work.
27) 1959
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In this intriguing and whimsical novella set in 1959, nine-year-old North Dakota farm boy, Jack Marshall, and a few close friends come to the aid of another friend, Tommy Clemens, who, one foggy morning before school, has seen an alien spacecraft land in a pigsty on his family farm and had an encounter of the fifth kind. Jack is also contacted by the aliens a few days later, and both boys suffer repercussions. Sheriff Frenchy DuBois is called in to...
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Criterion collection volume 60
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2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
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Swedish
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After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each...
30) Free Tibet
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A documentary about the first Tibetan Freedom Concert, held in San Francisco, and the significance of massive rock concerts that support social causes.
31) 12/31 Las Vegas
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English
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Dexter MacCandlass, and a team of FBI agents from the Southern California office investigate a suspected terrorist safe house. Mac's specialty: computer technology, Though the hostiles escape, Mac goes in to gather as much information from their computer as possible. The hostiles are then traced to Las Vegas. In that city another raid on their hideout is a disaster. Mac is kidnapped and taken to their safe house, and tortured for information he knows...
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The night before Christmas Eve, Jenna Barlow is driving down from a large shopping mall in Salt Lake City when her car door flies open and a strange man jumps in. "Please, he begs, take me away from here." She soon learns he has been shot. The 'bad guys' are now following her and her unwelcome passenger shooting at her car.
A chase ensues through Salt Lake County, Jenna finally manages to lose their pursuers and through a level five blizzard, she...
33) Ellie Reinvented
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English
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Ellie Fraser and her two children are, trapped in an abusive, loveless marriage. She met her charming, handsome husband when she was barely out of high school. But, as the years went by Nickolas became less interested in her of the children, and their responsibility is thrown on her slender shoulders. On a snowy New Year's, Nickolas flies into a drunken rage and nearly kills her. When she wakes from a comas she has no memory of her prior life or children,...
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Patricia Novak, wife of Michael Novak wealthy land developer, should be happy, she should have the 'world by the tail', but she is not and her behavior testifies of that. On a snowy New Year's Eve. Michael and 'Trish as he calls her, meets friends for dinner. Patricia collapses at dinner and is rushed to the nearest hospital in critical condition, at the same time, two other women are brought into that hospital. Ellie Fraser was attacked by her husband...
35) The Northman
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.
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Français
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La croissance du christianisme ces dernières décennies a été remarquable, mais s'agit-il d'une croissance en profondeur? Est-ce que nos communautés de foi, nos églises, font et encouragent des disciples de Jésus profondément engagés ? Ce livre est né de la réalisation que les églises à travers le monde, malgré leurs nombreux programmes d'évangélisation et activités, ne produisent qu'un petit nombre de véritables disciples de Jésus....
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This book is a fresh, inviting text on the content of the gospel and the way it influences our understanding of important scriptural themes tied to our relationship to the rabbi from Nazareth, the Lord Jesus. Drawing from the best of recent New Testament scholarship, mission-related themes such as discipleship, atonement, the Kingdom of God, faith, the Trinity, the Church, and life guided by the Holy Spirit are discussed. Accessible, clear, thought-provoking,...
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English
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The growth of Christianity in recent decades has been remarkable, but has it been growth with depth? Are our communities of faith, our churches, creating and nurturing deeply committed followers of Jesus? This book was born out of the realization that churches throughout the world, despite their numerous evangelization and spiritual development activities, are struggling to produce true disciples of Jesus.
How can we explain why so many of us in...
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388 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer -- and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime. A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit in Oslo re-opens with veteran...