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Don Bluth never felt like a Donald. So, people have always called him Don. A matinee of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs awakened something within him. Despite growing up in rural Texas and Utah, he practiced and worked hard to become a Hollywood animator. And after working alongside his idol Walt Disney, and on films including Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Winne the Pooh, The Rescuers, and Pete's Dragon, he realized that the...
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Somewhere Out There is a story of one person's experience with being, adopted. Most adopted children do not have any medical history or accurate information on their story. The author's search for a medical history sheds light on the many barriers that adopted children face trying to get information.
Adopted from Homestead Maternity Home in Fort Worth, Texas, she learns how the agency "marketed" their services and the similar stories told to adoptive...
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A young man is found collapsed backwards over his bed still fully clothed from the previous day. His housemates, Catherine and Martin, cannot rouse him. They know he should have been at work some time ago but they walk away. Catherine goes to work. Martin has a cup of tea and goes back to bed. About forty-five minutes later, Catherine telephones and asks Martin to check on Billy. Billy is dead. An ambulance was only four minutes away.
At the age...
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Jade Everly is a twenty-four-year-old native New Yorker, pursuing an acting career, while working as a Barista at a trendy cafe. She shares an apartment in Brooklyn with her best friend Reese.
When Reese suddenly springs the news that she is moving out to live with her boyfriend, Jade has no choice, but to let good-looking, cocky, musician and true player Colin move in. Now living together, Jade and Colin hardly see eye to eye, especially about the...
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As an adopted child, I soon realized my life was good. I didn't feel abandoned by the birth parents I never knew. I was just a few days old when my adoptive parents took me to my new home, a small town in Ohio. When I was quite young my adoptive mother told me that my biological mother was 13-years-old when I was born, one of the few facts she knew. Who were these people? Did I look like them? Do I have brothers and sisters? After I married and had...
10) Colony: Season 2
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The continuing story of Will and Katie and their family as they struggle to stay together in occupied Los Angeles in the wake of an alien invasion.
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Candlewick Press
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2019
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Patrick has been desperate for a dog of his own for as long as he can remember, and this summer, with his father away, he longs for a canine friend more than ever. Meanwhile, in his short doggy life, Oz has suffered at the hands of bad people. Somewhere out there, he believes, is an awesome boy - his boy. And maybe, when they find each other, Oz will learn to bark again.
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BBC Video
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[2010]
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A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern adventures, Sherlock and John navigate a maze of cryptic clues...
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In "The Oakdale Affair", we follow further adventures of Bridge. Bridge finds himself sheltering from a storm with a mysterious thief. The pair rescue a young woman who's run afoul of her gangster boyfriend.
It seems that everybody wants the loot that the thief stole, and somewhere out there is a kidnapped young woman who is the key to it all. Bridge will have a lot of juggling to do to keep gangsters, gypsies, and private detectives in line and...
18) Out of the storm
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One look at his warm brown eyes and Kate Jackson knows she's found her husband. It's been twenty years since Daniel went missing in a refinery explosion and was finally declared dead, but Kate never gave up hope, convinced he was somewhere out there, suffering from amnesia. Then, on a trip to Buckhorn, Montana, she sees him--working as a carpenter, scarred, but still her Danny. Yet Jon Harper, as he calls himself, insists he's a stranger. Jon is certain...
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An editor for The Washington Post's Style section offers a look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism.