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Earliest Publication Date
2002
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From the Atlantic ocean to Minnesota Lake country, there are certain places that remind us how special "America the Beautiful" really is. From the Pacific northwest all the way down the coast, see why the West has long been America's final destination.
Earliest Publication Date
2002
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From sea to shining sea, this musical tribute carries you across 3,000 miles of imagery and song, on a journey that lets your eyes, ears, and heart experience America. Gaze in wonder and appreciation at our landscapes and landmarks. Hear the music that says "American the beautiful, America the United, " in so many different ways.
Earliest Publication Date
2001
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It's Halloween time and Barney and his friends are decorating for a party at the school. Evening arrives, the party begins and the costumed trick-or-treaters go on a search for goodies. Learn about Halloween safety, cooperation and being good friends.
4) Black Beauty
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Earliest Publication Date
1890
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One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead and a heart of unyielding courage.
Earliest Publication Date
2002
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Celebrate the beauty and grace of the land while enjoying favorite hymns written to praise God. Enchanting scenery from around the world, set to timelessly inspirational melodies.
6) Kidnapped
Earliest Publication Date
1932
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
Earliest Publication Date
2002
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Start where America's mighty Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico ... voyage up river and gaze at the glorious majesty of the Great Lakes, each with its own spirit, personality, and inviting coastlines ... then head due west to take in some of our country's most incredible scenic highlights, such as the timelessly popular Yellowstone National Park and the indescribably vast scale of the Grand Canyon -- one of the world's most spectacular sights....
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2002
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Your journey begins in the stark beauty of the Death Valley National Monument. It ends with enthralling close-ups of the rare naenae birds in the crater of a dormant volcano in Hawaii.
Earliest Publication Date
2001
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Middle-aged man falls in love with a much younger woman in this satire of sexual obsession.
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Earliest Publication Date
1931
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
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Earliest Publication Date
1920
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"Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows these boys as they get into predicament after predicament. Tom's classic whitewashing of the fence has become part of American culture, and the book paints a nostalgic picture of life in the middle of the nineteenth century. Tom runs away from home to an...
Earliest Publication Date
2006
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A hard-drinking river trader and a prim missionary become unlikely travel companions on a river expedition in the war-torn African jungle in 1914 as they battle nature, a German gunboat, and each other.
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2001
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Four stories set in the Klondike, including the classic adventures of an unusual dog, part St.Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
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Earliest Publication Date
2007
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The most celebrated work of Dante is the Divine comedy--a vision of hell, purgatory and heaven that provides a strangely surrealistic view of medieval attitudes on religious dogma and the price of disobedience.
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Earliest Publication Date
1965
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Agatha Christie's first novel, introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to...
Earliest Publication Date
1892
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In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress. But though she bears the stigma of the shame her peers would confer upon her, others feel the guilt for her transgression more acutely--notably the pious Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the...
18) Treasure Island
Earliest Publication Date
1901
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"Robert Louis Stevenson's cherished, unforgettable adventure magically captures the thrill of a sea voyage and a treasure hunt through the eyes of its teenage protagonist, Jim Hawkins. Crossing the Atlantic in search of the buried cache, Jim and the ship's crew must brave the elements and a mutinous charge led by the quintessentially ruthless pirate Long John Silver. Brilliantly conceived and splendidly executed, it is a novel that has seized the...
