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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Colorado's forests provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat, world-class recreational opportunities, wood products, and unparalleled scenery. But many of Colorado's forests are in poor condition, with increasing threats from record-setting wildfires, damaged watersheds, invasive insects, and ongoing bark beetle epidemics. Forest management is one of the best ways to reduce threats to our forests, and a thriving forest products industry can help...
5) Moonlight
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate...
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Description
A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Whoopi Goldberg returns as the lounge singer who goes undercover as a nun to help an ailing inner-city school.
12) Urban legend
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
When New England college student Natalie finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about Pendleton's own legend--a twenty-five-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal Psych professor.
13) Freedom writers
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
14) Son-in-law
Formats
Description
L.A.'s funkiest college student, Crawl, is hilariously out of his element when he spends Thanksgiving at the family farm of a straitlaced college co-ed.
15) Won't back down
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
16) Dangerous Minds
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a tough class of inner-city teenagers.
17) Brooklyn Castle
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
I.S.318 is an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level, that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he'd only rank fifth best.
18) Urban Danger
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Danger is stalking the city. Like it or not, its a fact: Life in urban areas is about to change radically due to developments most people are not aware of. Find out what the issues are and what YOU can do, to not only survive but also thrive. Far from a "survivalist" film, "Urban Danger" takes a commonsense look at our roots, finding practical solutions to problems we face today. You will meet many people from all walks of life who will show...
Series
Pub. Date
♭2012, ♭2011.
Description
For three decades hundreds of cryptic tiled messages have been appearing on major city streets across the U.S. and South America. Finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been Justin Duerr's obsession. For years he has been collecting clues and piecing together key events, ultimately leading him to a revelation more surreal and enigmatic than he could ever have imagined.
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