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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous....
Publisher
Jim Pattison Group
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (58 min.) : 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents an aerial view of Canada enhanced by a sound track consisting of brief lyrical segments and musical soundtracks from Canadian artists including Celine Dion, Bruce Cockburn and the Rankins."
Author
Publisher
Monacelli Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
220 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 37 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographs of the Colorado Plateau, featuring the land formations at national parks, such as, the Grand Canyon, the Arches, the ruins at Mesa Verde, and Canyon de Chelly, with writings and quotations that honor these sacred lands.
Author
Publisher
Sunbelt Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
107 pages
Language
English
Description
"There are over 300 individual earthen art elements in the extreme southwestern United States: southeastern California and southwestern Arizona. A considerable amount of the fragile earthen art may not be discovered, recorded, and protected in time to prevent its loss. Many of the geoglyphs located along the Colorado River are believed to be of significant spiritual importance to the Native Americans living in the area. Great care was taken to respect...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A seemingly innocuous twenty-year-old photograph turns Grace Lawson's peaceful life upside down when her husband, Jack, mysteriously vanishes with the photograph and unanswered questions threaten her marriage and everything she knows.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
200 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 21 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Divided by continent, YOU ARE HERE represents one (idealized) orbit of the ISS. This planetary photo tour -- surprising, playful, thought-provoking, and visually delightful -- is also punctuated with fun, fascinating commentary on life in zero gravity. In the spirit of his bestselling An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, YOU ARE HERE opens a singular window on our planet, using remarkable photographs to illuminate the history and consequences of...
Author
Publisher
Mountain Trail Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xi, 219 pages : colored illustrations, map ; 24 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a book of essays from nineteen authors who collaborated with nature photographer Howie Garber. The spirit of this collaboration is to protect the remaining open areas of the Wasatch. Garber's photographs celebrate the diversity and splendor of a unique place.
Author
Publisher
Cameron
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
144 p. : col. ill. ; 29 x 36 cm.
Language
English
Description
Above Yosemite. "What John Muir would have given to see Yosemite from above!" exclaims Harold Gilliam in his book-length test to this photographic tone-poem. Indeed, not even mountain climbers or hang-glider pilots can view a fraction of this most treasured National Park. Teddy Roosevelt call it America's mightiest beauty, and the Sierra Club was born to watch over it. This handsome volume is an enduring record of nature's masterpiece, the finest...
Author
Publisher
Bucher Publ
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
299 p. : chiefly col. ill. : 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Klaus-Dieter Francke's photographs present an ethereal geography of our planet, depcitions that could be mistaken for masterful drawings. He introduces us to a primeval, almost uninhabited place where knotted roots, meandering rivers, glaciers and dunes define the passage of time. In a few cases, humans and animals are seen traversing its broad expanses. Views of the Earth as you've never seen it before!
Publisher
Leisure Arts
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
318 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introducing the scrapbookers new best friend. When it comes to making the most of your memories, take a page from the Creating Keepsakes experts. Beginners and more experienced scrapbookers alike will turn to this hefty new reference guide time and time again for helpful insights and daily inspiration on tools, techniques, layouts plus all the can't-miss tips you'd expect from The Scrapbooking Authority. Inside this reference book you'll fine: more...
13) The photograph
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After finding a hidden family photograph, a woman searches into her estranged mother's past and becomes involved in a romance with a journalist.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Frances and Elsie believe in fairies. The photographs the girls take of the winged beings put them at the center of a real-life controversy that sweeps through a recovering World War I England during 1917. Everyone is caught up in the excitement, including two of the era's most renowned men: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and master illusionist Harry Houdini. But are the photographs real or just a cleaver hoax?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians. The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures , of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants...
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"[T]his surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled chateau they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of memory is...
Series
Arthouse films volume 005
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of curator and patron Sam Wagstaff, his relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and his influence on the 1970s New York art and music scenes.
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