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A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular...
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With the Indians in the Rockies" is a biography of James Willard Schultz's close friend Thomas Fox. Based on Fox's stories told by the evening camp-fire and before the comfortable fireplaces of various posts. Two boys, one a Black Foot Indian named Pitimakan and a white boy named Thomas are trapped in the Rockies for the winter, Having nothing but the clothing on their backs, they manage to fashion bows and arrows, the makings for creating a fire...
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Franciscan Media
Pub. Date
2014.
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138 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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In his search for God, Thomas Merton wrote on timeless themes and questions we still wrestle with today. Simplicity, nonviolence, honesty, mystery, and even death and eternity--these topics and more permeated Merton's writings. This book distills the wisdom of Merton's dozens of books and voluminous journals into the enduring themes most relevant to readers today.--Back cover.
9) Edison
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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783 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of one of America's most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about how a small spark can create a big light. No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison. He couldn't focus at school and caused trouble around the house. But where others saw a distracted and mischievous boy, his mother saw imagination and curiosity. When he was only...
11) Tesla
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...
17) The current war
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101 Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 206 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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An unprecedented collaboration of Kino International and the Museum of Modern Art, together with the Library of Congress. Edison: the invention of the movies is a four-disc box set featuring 140 complete Edison Co. films from 1891 to 1918, all restored and newly remastered. This deluxe set also includes 200+ scans of artifacts from MoMA's Edison collection, film-by-film program notes, and two hours of interviews with early film experts.
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