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The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I am the fourth child of my mother, and my father was the thirty-ninth. I grew up in the Mexican countryside town of Colonia LeBaron, founded by my grandfather after he received a vision from God.
#2 I loved going to church with my family. I was always late, though, because I was fascinated by my sister's eyelashes.
#3 My mother, who was also the prophet's wife,...
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This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be.
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Gravitas Ventures
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2022
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After decades of quiet living, 89- year-old former senator and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel comes out of retirement when a group of teenagers convince him to run for president. Through Senator Gravel's official Twitter account, the Gravel teens embark on an unlikely adventure to qualify him for the Democratic debates in order to advance an anti-war, anti-corruption, and direct democracy agenda in the 2020 presidential race.
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The Great Courses
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2022.
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Investigate glaciers, which now cover about 10% of Earth's land area; 25,000 years ago, they covered 30%. Learn how to spot evidence of past glaciation—from sculpted valleys in Yosemite National Park, to the cliffs at Vicksburg, Mississippi (which formed far from glaciers), to Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. Dig into the physics of glaciers: how they develop and the forces they exert.
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The Great Courses
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2022.
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Sedimentary rocks make up a substantial majority of rocks at Earth's surface. In this episode, focus on clastic rocks, which are composed of broken fragments of pre-existing rocks. The fragments can vary in size from clay particles to silt, sand, gravel, and larger pieces. Learn how these rocks form and the rich stories they tell about the past.
14) Full Time
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Music Box Films
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2021.
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Single mother Julie (Laure Calamy) needs reliable transit to get to work–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Out of desperation, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. FULL TIME is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life.
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The Great Courses
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2021.
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Especially popular with the aristocracy and the aspiring middle classes, the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens were 12 acres of woods and gravel walks on the South Bank of the Thames. Experience some of the scandalous stories of overindulgence, social interaction, sex, pleasure, and danger that abounded in and around this quintessentially 18th-century public place.
16) Bozer's Boo Boo
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The Jim Henson Company
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2000.
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When Diggs discovers that Bozer has accidentally dozed a load of gravel over some important bridge rods he faces a dilemma.
17) Saving Faith
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When a zealous CIA chief uncovers evidence of bribery in high places, he compels Washington influence peddler Danny Buchanan to spy on his clients, but when Buchanan tells his story to the FBI, the tables are turned. Believe the power: In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and she'll...
18) Joe
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A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
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Finalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award–winning novelist Hortense Calisher The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher gathers short pieces that chart the author's best-loved themes of mindful consciousness and social worlds. This collection includes one of her well-known New Yorker stories, "In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks," in which a young man drops his mother off at a sanitarium and acquires a new...
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