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2) At all costs
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English
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"That Rare Beast: A Superior Page-Turner That Manages To Pull At Your Heart. --David Baldacci The Brightons are just an ordinary, small-town, law-abiding family. Until somebody else's mistake uncovers the truth--Jake and Carolyn Brighton are the FBI's two most wanted fugitives. Jake and Carolyn have lived a lie for fourteen years to protect themselves. But now they have to protect their thirteen-year-old son, Travis. Their only chance is to return...
3) Halt's peril
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
4) Republic
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English
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A Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man.
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English
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The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. Senator Ted Cruz takes readers inside the justice system, showing how the wrong hands on the levers of power can strangle...
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Ember in the ashes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Laia and Elias fight their way north to liberate Laia's brother from the horrors of Kauf Prison, a mission that is complicated by hunting Empire soldiers, the manipulations of the Commandant, and lingering ghosts from their pasts.
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New Day Films
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (157 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Simultaneously a murder-mystery and an exposè of endemic corruption today, GIVE UP TOMORROW looks intimately at the case of Paco Larrañaga, a student accused of killing two sisters on the provincial island of Cebu. In a way that is both specific to the country and disquietingly universal, the film exposes a Kafkaesque extravaganza populated by flamboyantly crooked public officials, cops on the take, and a frenzied legal and media circus.. GIVE UP...
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Vision Video
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The third episode in this series looks at England in the early 18th century, and the transformation of a people and a nation through a religious revival begun by a preacher named John Wesley.
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Vision Video
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (251 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The Magna Carta is widely regarded as a foundational text of the British legal system and of the U.S. Constitution. As an essential guarantor of basic freedoms Magna Carta has inspired imitators across ages and across continents. To what extent is it right to see the Great Charter as a fount of freedom, democracy and rule of law, and how relevant is it today? Examining politics, science, society, law and warfare, this five-part series show how the...
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Susan Abod
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Imagine your house is making you dangerously sick. Common products like paint, carpeting, new building materials and insecticides are now your worst enemies. Your bones ache, you're feverish, you suffer from extreme headaches, disabling fatigue, mental confusion, asthma and nausea. The longer you stay in your house, the sicker you get but you can't imagine how or where you're going to find a safe home. You are one of the missions suffering from the...
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First Run Features Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Unlocking the Cagefollows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. Arguing that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights, Steve and his legal team are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a "thing"with no rights to a "person"with...
14) Dear Zachary
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Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Shortly after his best friend, Dr. Andrew Bagby, was slain by jealous ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, filmmaker Kurt Kuenne was shocked to learn that Turner was pregnant with Bagby's unborn child. Hoping to create a film that would serve as both a memorial to Bagby and an introduction to the father the boy would never know, Kuenne quickly began production on a film celebrating the life of his late friend. Traveling across the entire continental...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This is the biggest leak in history: 11.5 million files exposing the most secret world of offshore finance.. Under the ICIJ, 378 investigative journalists around the world worked on the leaked files behind closed doors. On April 3rd 2016, representing 109 media organisations, they released the Panama Papers, exposing political leaders, businessmen, celebrities, sports stars and even criminals, using shell companies to hide their assets and depriving...
16) CIA vs KGB
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history...But the war between the secret services was one dimension of a much larger conflict. A confrontation that almost boiled over just under the surface of the cold war. Economic pressures, secret diplomacy and espionage...
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Pragda
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (126 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Ecuador was shaken in 1981 by the suspicious death of President Jaime Roldós and his wife. The film examines the conspiracy generated by his human rights advocacy, and the drama of his three children, faced with the manipulated image of their parents by a populist party created by their own family.. Winner of Best Documentary at the Havana Film Festival.. “...integral to the success of Ecuadorian cinema on a local and international scale.” –...
18) Defendant 5
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
Young Australian filmmaker Heidi Lee Douglas goes to Tasmania to make a documentary about the destruction of the island’s ancient forests. As anti-logging protests escalate, logging giant Gunns Ltd reacts to public pressure by suing Heidi and 19 others for
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The Video Project
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (144 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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What is the impact on freedom of speech and the press when a big corporation attempts to suppress criticism and manipulate the media?. Documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten found out when he debuted his previous film, BANANAS!, which portrays the struggle of 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers who brought a lawsuit challenging fruit giant Dole Food’s use of a banned pesticide. Shortly after BANANAS! was selected to premiere at the Los Angeles Film...
20) The Offended
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
An award-winning documentary on the legacy of the internal armed conflict in El Salvador, THE OFFENDED features the director’s charismatic father, Rubén Zamora, a key political leader and current Salvadorian Ambassador before the UN, who was captured and tortured by the National Police during the country’s civil war.. Illustrated with shocking archival footage, Zamora’s testimony, as well as that of others who suffered a similar fate, the film...
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