Keith David
Author
Language
English
Description
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story explores the extraordinary life and legacy of one of the most important religious figures of the 20th century. Thurman was a prolific writer, celebrated preacher and recognized by Martin Luther King, Jr as the "spiritual foundation" for the Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Language
English
Description
A stirring story about regret, love, and second chances woven together in a vignette style. The story follows four very different women who sit at a crisis point in their lives - their desires clouded by fear, duty, tragedy, and regret. As each story unfolds, the characters struggle to find the courage to live for themselves, to reclaim the relationships they have lost along the way, and make time for the things that really matter.
3) Inside Islam
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
It is the second largest religion in the world. Its name is derived from the word for peace, yet to many Westerners, it is synonymous with violence and terror. Widely practiced and equally widely misunderstood, Islam is a religion that has been at the heart of human experience for well over a thousand years. In the world after September 11th, it is especially critical to understand the origins and practice of Islam, and its role in the world today....
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
日本語
Description
When a frightening creature attacks his remote village, young warrior Ashitaka is able to put the great beast out of its misery. It is a boar god corrupted by sinister magic, transformed into a monster by a wound from a mysterious iron ball. Ashitaka has received a wound as well, which bubbles with supernatural putrescence, so he must travel far to the east seeking a cure. In Iron Town, Lady Eboshi employs freed prostitutes, former serfs, and even...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Backs Against The Wall: The Howard Thurman Story explores the extraordinary life and legacy of one of the most important religious figures of the 20th century. Born the grandson of slaves, Thurman became a "spiritual foundation" for the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring many of its leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr, Jesse Jackson and Congressman John Lewis. In the mid-1930s, Thurman was the first Black American invited to meet Mohandas Gandhi...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their arch rivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September of 2001, baseball offers the hope that things will one...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Cody Banks is just your typical teen, but he has one secret - he is a teen CIA agent. His assignment is to befriend a school classmate to get to her dad, who is unknowingly helping an evil organization. Can he complete his mission and get the girl?
Cody Banks es solamente un joven típico, pero tiene un secreto - es un agente joven de la CIA. Su tarea es hacerse amigo de una compañera de clase para llegar a su papá, quien ayuda sin saberlo una...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
11) Jackie Robinson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage.
12) Marked for death
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Burned-out after losing his partner on the job, Drug Enforcement Agent John Hatcher hopes to find some calm and serenity by returning to his hometown. But things at home have changed, and not for the better. Jamaican drug lords, led by a black-magic high priest named Screwface, have completely infiltrated the small town. But this gang soon learns that they have met their match in John Hatcher.
13) Larger than life
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jack Corcoran is a motivational speaker who inherits an elephant. He intends to sell it, but accomplishing that isn't all that simple.
14) Pitch black
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A remote planet. The marooned passengers of their crash-landed ship soon learns that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding...
16) The war
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
17) Armageddon
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government calls upon an oil-well driller and his colorful crew to save the world by flying to an asteroid that's on a collision course for earth and setting off a nuclear bomb to divert it.
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
19) Coraline
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Coraline Jones is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door that leads her into a world that's just like her own-- but better! But when this fantastical adventure turns dangerous and her "other" Mother tries to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness and bravery to get home"--Container
20) Nope
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
