Steve James
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The legacy of Roger Ebert's life, recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of the world-renowned film critic and social commentator, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.
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Elliot's park volume 3
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The Walnut Cup, the only American stop on the World Squirrel Soccer League tour, is taking place in Elliot's park. When the game ball, a perfectly round walnut, cannot be found, it is up to Elliot and his friends to find it.
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Super happy party bears volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The Grumpy Woods residents find Wallace Woodpecker's pecking preposterously loud, but the bears think Wallace is beating a nice rhythm--it is great for early-morning dancercise"--
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When Librarian Vicki Myron finds a young kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box, she nurses him back to health, deciding then and there that he will be their library cat, and naming him, appropriately, Dewey Readmore Books. Dewey loves his new home, but once he discovers the littlest library visitors- who like to chase him, pull his tail, and squeeze him extra tight- Dewey begins to wonder if he's truly cut out for the demands of his new...
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Super happy party bears volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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"When a few beavers come to town, the Grumpy Woods are even more grumpy than usual. These beavers are chewing down the trees and drying up their river water with a dam. Everyone gets even angrier when the Super Happy Party Bears throw a dance party to celebrate the new dam, but when they dance that dam right down the river, everyone admits the bears aren't so bad after all"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Hop aboard our special mini-bus for an unforgettable tour around the most fascinating destination in the entire Universe - you! In the company of our expert mini body guides, this book will get down to a microscopic level to explore all the various muscles, bones, organs and systems that make up the human body. Get ready to weave through great forests of hair, take a breakneck cruise along an artery (dodging red blood cells on the way) and get up...
9) Hoop dreams
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Follows the experiences of Chicago teenagers Arthur Agee and William Gates as they compete in the world of high school basketball.
10) Reel Paradise
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The extraordinary story of one American family's unique adventure running a cinema in one of the most isolated villages on the planet.
11) Prefontaine
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
Biographical film on the tragically short life of american track and field star Steve Prefontaine, who died in a car wreck at the age of 24 just before the 1976 Olympics.
12) Prefontaine
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
The film features the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track".
13) Hoop dreams
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Follows the lives of two high-school basketball players from inner city Chicago over a five-year span as they aspire to become professional basketball players.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy in the Chinatown community, over the course of a five-year...
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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth--in Harlem--and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?"--Container.
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[2010]
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Lone Wolf McQuade: A renegade Texas Ranger tries to give his new sidekick the slip and becomes involved in a violent battle against a gun runner in this action film featuring martial arts battles.
Hero and the terror: Homicide detective Danny O'Brien (Norris) is known simply as 'Hero' for having brought down L.A.'s most vicious serial killer: Simon Moon (Jack O'Halloran), a.k.a. 'The Terror.' But for years, O'Brien has secretly been haunted by the...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
30 years, 30 stories, 30 filmmakers: 30 years of sports covered in 30 stories by 30 different film directors.
Kings ransom: "On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen when the Edmonton Oilers sent Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. Acclaimed director Peter Berg (Friday night lights, The kingdom) presents the captivating story of the trade that knocked the wind out of an entire country and placed a star-studded...
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
30 years, 30 stories, 30 filmmakers: 30 years of sports covered in 30 stories by 30 different film directors.
Kings ransom: "On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen when the Edmonton Oilers sent Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. Acclaimed director Peter Berg (Friday night lights, The kingdom) presents the captivating story of the trade that knocked the wind out of an entire country and placed a star-studded...
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