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The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history --- a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in a last, desperate attempt to...
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Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 6
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English
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"'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor-- even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Experience the awesome spectacle of earthquakes, volcanoes, and severe storms as National Geographic cameras travel the world, venturing to the very brink of erupting volcanoes, into the paths of deadly pyroclastic flows, along massive fault lines, and aboard vehicles barreling toward massive tornados, all in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Stunning visual footage and a powerful soundtrack bring natural disasters to life like never before."
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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4 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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How did the fierce wolf become a playful puppy? Why are there so many varieties of dogs? And how did they earn their place as "man's best friend"? This collection seeks to answer these questions-- and more.
Pub. Date
[2007]
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5 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The "super outbreak" of April 26-27 alone involved more than a hundred separate twisters, killing over 300 people and cutting a path of destruction across the south. Witness: Tornado Swarm 2011 tells the story of this once in a century event, as captured by those who lived to tell about it.
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Deluxe teaching edition.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 curriculum packet (in cardboard container; 22 x 29 cm)
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English
Description
"Liberty! is an exuberant documentary about the American Revolution and our fight for freedom. This Peabody Award-winning six-hour series chronicles the events leading up to the declaration of war and the lasting effects these events had on shaping our country today."--Container
Pub. Date
2014.
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2 videodiscs (270 mins) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows the lives of ordinary Americans who believe that a major catastrophe may end modern life. These individuals stockpile food, water, and weapons in an attempt to survive an impending devastating disaster.
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[2005]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin.
Pub. Date
[2011]
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4 videodiscs (585 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
National Geographic delves into its second season of the popular series Alaska State Troopers. Each episode presents a 'day-in-the-life' look at the job. Responding by land, air, and sea, with backup sometimes days away, they face danger to protect the people and wildlife of Alaska. Episodes include Spring Break Madness; Arctic Force; Justice Below Zero; Manhunt; Shots Fired; Armed and Dangerous; and many more. Bonus features: a behind-the-scenes...
13) Planet Earth
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collectors edition.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 550 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An 11-part series that presents rare footage of Earth's landscapes and wildlife.
15) Your brain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
With the help of professional caregivers, learn how these baby animals from the wilderness are raised. Includes timber wolf pups; Sitka deer; a black bear cub; and Mush the baby moose.
18) It had to be you
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The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way-handsome, intelligent, popular-until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death...
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope -- the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to "sniff" the atmospheres of exoplanets as we search for signs of life beyond Earth....
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