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Kanopy Streaming
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Jean Rouch is known to many worldwide as a French anthropologist and innovative filmmaker. Much of his work is linked to the birth of cinéma vérité. However, Rouch's fifty-year involvement with a particular group of people in Niger shines a more personal light on his work - one of friendship and collaboration. Together with this group, Rouch made numerous ethnographic films and developed their own cinematographic style. These films have been...
2) Happy place
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"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up...
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The hit series is back, to inspire and charm another generation of baby-sitters!
Stacey's so excited! She's invited her friends in the Baby-sitters Club to New York City for a long weekend. It's going to be perfect--a party and a sleepover on Friday, a big baby-sitting job on Saturday, and lot of sightseeing on Sunday.But what a mistake! The BSC is way out of place in the big city. Mary Anne sounds like a walking guide book, Dawn is afraid of everything,...
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'A glorious story that celebrates the power of love' – Bestselling author ADRIANA TRIGIANI 'I adored The House in the Olive Grove. It is a hymn to friendship and love, and is utterly perfect' – Bestselling author LIZ FENWICK Will one week in Greece change their lives for ever? Chef Maria is running a successful cookery school in her home village of Petalidi, Greece – but she is also running from the secrets of her past. Food journalist Kayla...
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
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"It's been a minute-or five years-since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old...
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Hopeless novels volume 2
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"In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared and no memory forgotten, but Holder's past remains a mystery. He is haunted by the little girl he let walk away from him and he has spent his entire life searching for her. He had hoped that he would finally gain closure and be able to rid himself of his guilt the moment they were reconnected. But he could not have anticipated that the exact opposite would occur and even more guilt and...
10) Poetry to Poems
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Poems on Science & Math, Friendship, Love, Death, Nature, and the World, among other topics. Please, enjoy! Charles Ynfante. Spain.
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Three best friends--Heather, who finally sees the beauty of family; Daphne, who is trying to fix her marriage after an emotional affair; and Tori, who has fallen in love with a longtime friend, navigate the joy, and heartache of letting people into their hearts for the very first time.
Heather is happy ... ish. She has a successful business, a cute but contemptuous cat, and best friends Daphne and Tori who know where she's broken and love her anyway....
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Moving from party to restaurant to glittering social event, Truman Capote and his flock of glamorous socialite "swans" rule 1960s New York, and Stephen Greco brings this gossipy, backstabbing, celebrity-filled world to life in a fascinating recreation of the tumultuous friendship between Capote and his most elegant swan, Lee Radziwill, sister to Jackie Kennedy.
On a Thursday morning in May 1961, a well-mannered twenty-one-year-old named Marlene...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters!
Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one girl do?As it turns out--plenty! Claudia breaks her leg because of one of Betsy's mean jokes . . . and now she's talking about quitting the club. Baby-sitting might be too dangerous. The rest of the BSC decides that Betsy needs to be...
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"A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy...
15) Sweaty betty
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Breaking Glass Pictures
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In a cramped row house on the border of Washington, D.C., two stories of big dreams take place. Floyd and his family have raised a 1000-pound pig in their backyard, and are determined to turn her into the team mascot for the Redskins football team. Floyd puts his plan into motion, but the pig, named Miss Charlotte, draws unwanted attention. A few blocks away, Rico and Scooby, two teenage single fathers and best friends, are hanging around the neighborhood....
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Sliding Across Mountains is a book about the power of friendship. In a small town in Tennessee, a writer, a mother, a widow, and a parish nurse form an unlikely friendship and a curling team. These four ladies learn more than sliding rocks down a sheet of ice. They learn what they can accomplish with a team of support and love is not always on the rocks.
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The art of making friends is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Each person has his or her own preferences and style when it comes to communication and connection. This guide will provide you with the tools you need to make meaningful connections with people, regardless of your personal style
18) Cellules grises
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La vie ne tient pas toujours ses promesses. Voilà la conclusion à laquelle parviennent trois vieux complices, dont la retraite a pris la forme d'une prison.
Pour Albert, habitué aux sommets d'une prestigieuse carrière d'enseignant en médecine familiale, le choc est brutal : sans son boulot, il est inexistant.
Paul, ancien urgentologue, est désormais l'otage d'un horaire de gardiennage aliénant, gracieuseté d'un fils qui se reproduit plus...
19) MAD Druggist
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Once upon a time, there was a very kind, loving, generous, and caring man who did good works. Unfortunately, the ungodly hypocrites in authority did not like his radical ways of counseling and made it very difficult for him to hold on to his livelihood. All he wanted in this unprecedented, unheard of, crazy cruel spiritual journey is for someone to give him a break!
The tumultuous pharmacy career finally catches up with Louie, and no one is willing...
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Jackie, Nia, and Cheryl are three individuals whose lives are interwoven together in a story about family, tragedy, hate, love, inspiration, and a higher power. Each of them is forced to call on God to help with their individually issue. Jackie and Nia are also challenged through therapeutic intervention to look inward and unlock the hurt that has caused their lives to become stuck, full of hate, and grief. Cheryl is challenged to take on another...
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