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1) Ms. Bear
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In this heartwarming, youth-oriented outing, a 7-year-old girl finds the perfect playmate when she stumbles across a lost, lonely bear cub in the forest.
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In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President, Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide mobilization can save us from disaster and presents a brilliant and comprehensive plan for action that...
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Our earth home is in trouble: plastic pollution, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, and hazardous waste all affect many processes that shape global climate and ecosystems. However, we don't have to go out with a whimper. We can fight back. Even better, we can win. The battlegrounds are our homes, schools, workplaces, and vacation spots. By changing our actions, we can stop the downward spiral. Here are more than 365 ways to be environmentally...
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Magic School Bus volume 6
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It's "Accidental Science Project" day and the class has brought in marvelously rotten entries from the back of their refrigerators.
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Our world is infinitely richer than previously guessed, yet it is so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the century. In this dazzlingly intelligent and ultimately hopeful work, biologist E.O. Wilson describes what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever- in many cases animals, insects, and plants we have only just discovered- and what we can do to save them. Wilson...
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WYATT EARP IS SPENSER SPURS... Booklist
"The gunman is Wyatt Earp. The rhapsody plays out in rare Parker stand-alone novel, his best yet and his first western. Told in prose as cool and spare as Parker has ever laid down..."
ROBERT B. PARKER, The undisputed dean of American crime fiction, has long been credited with single-handedly resuscitating the private-eye genre. As the creator of the Spenser, Jesse Stone, and Sunny Randall series
...10) Spirit Bear
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Based on a true story, "Spirit Bear" follows 15-year-old Simon Jackson, an outcast who spends time alone in the British Columbia wilderness. During one of his adventures, Simon is attacked by an animal and, out of nowhere, a Kermode bear appears and rescues him. When he learns that the bears are endangered, he vows to fight for their survival, ultimately securing the protection of 2,500 square miles of Princess Royal Island.
11) Time Flies
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A series of short comic vignettes from playwright David Ives, In the title work, two houseflies try to make the most out of their brief time on earth.
12) Romance
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David Mamet and L.A. Theatre Works present the sardonic tale of pill-popping judge presiding over an anti-Semitic attorney and his Jewish client, a chiropractor trying to bring about world peace.
14) Halcyon Days
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In this work of satire, playwright Steven Dietz provides an unusual back-story to a historical event and chronicles the experiences of several characters as they grow increasingly involved in America's invasion of Grenada in 1983.
15) Earth and Sky
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Sara McKeon, a poet and librarian, becomes involved in the investigation of her lover's murder.
16) Patterns
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Rod Serling's tale of ruthless men and ambitious women clawing for control of a billion dollar empire first aired in Jan 1955 on Kraft Television Theater. The hard-hitting teleplay was such a success, earning Serling instant acclaim and the first of his six Emmy awards, that producers Jed Harris and Michael Myerberg helmed a big screen feature with the same director (Fielder Cook) and most of the same cast for United Artists. The result was an acid-etched...
17) Twelve Angry Men
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Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead in this tense, courtroom drama -- nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture -- about one juror determined to sway the opinions of eleven others.
18) She-Devil
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The author of 32 best-selling romance books takes her accountant away from his frumpy wife. And when this overweight suburban wife discovers what's been going on, she wreaks malicious and delicious revenge...
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Route 66 volume 21
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A woman returning from a long prison stay believes Tod to be her son.
20) Plus One
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Long-time friends Alice and Ben find themselves in that inevitable year that all late 20-somethings experience-in which seemingly every person they know gets married-and agree to be one another's plus ones as they power through an endless parade of insufferable weddings.
