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21) Bowling for Columbine

Pub. Date

2002.

Description

The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.

22) The watchmakers: a story of brotherhood, survival, and hope amid the Holocaust

Author

Lenga, Harry

Pub. Date

[2022]

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Told through interviews with his son, watchmaker Harry Lenga's extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers together -- and alive -- during the darkest times of World War II. Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father's trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when...

23) The Devil's playbook: big tabacco, juul, and the addition of a new generation

Author

Etter, Lauren

Pub. Date

[2021]

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"Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided-and the vaping epidemic was born. Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company, and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company-the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive...

24) Daniel Boone: Season 2,Discs 5 & 6

Pub. Date

[2006]

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Set in and around Kentucky and Virginia during the colonial period preceeding the American Revolution, Daniel Boone takes us on suspenseful action adventures with his fellow frontiersman and women.

25) Reading the American past: selected historical documents

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26) Cuz (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): or, the life and times of Michael A

Author

Allen, Danielle S

Pub. Date

[2017]

Appears on these lists

CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors

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The author relates how her cousin was imprisoned at the age of fifteen for attempted carjacking and how she took him in upon his release, only to lose him to the deadly streets of South Central L.A.

27) The complete idiot's guide to T'ai Chi and QiGong: illustrated

Author

Douglas, Bill

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Overview: T'ai Chi - a martial art used for health, meditation, and self-defense - and QiGong - a large variety of physical and mental training methods based on Chinese philosophy - are widely recognized to heal physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. T'ai Chi has demonstrated its health benefits by being linked with everything from slowing the aging process and increasing balance and flexibility to lowering stress levels and enhancing...

28) Australia

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Blu-Ray, DVD

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In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....

29) The Muppet Show: Season Two

Pub. Date

[2007]

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A musical-variety program with a cast made up of Muppets and guest stars. So, go bonkers with Beaker, goofy with Gonzo and join the brave cast of "Pigs in space" for Muppet fun.