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Adventure stories Juvenile fiction Cats Juvenile fiction Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 1951- Children's television programs Daley, Richard J 1902-1976 Fiction Authorship Fortune Juvenile fiction Mayors Illinois Chicago Biography Minority authors United States Politics and government 1945-1989Summary: This documentary begins as a profile of the Children's Organization of Southeast Asia, which provides shelter to child victims of human trafficking in Northern Thailand, and its leader, Mickey Choothesa. As the filmmakers pursue their subject, suspicions arise as to whether Choothesa and COSA are truly what they represent themselves to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WROSummary: Tubb the pirate: Tubb whishes he was a pirate so he could be brave. Terence of Arabia: Terence doesn't like to be splashed - if only he were someplace dry like the desert. Sploshy of the Arctic: Cooling off in the bathroom on a hot day sounds great to everyone but Sploshy! Super Amelia: Wishing for superpowers Amelia finds herself training to be a superhero. Deep sea Reg: Reg wants to play...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hit Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RUBPhillips, Adam.
Summary: In this book, psychoanalsyt Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor examine the pleasures and perils of kindness. Modern people have been taught to perceive ourselves as fundamentally antagonistic to one another, our motives self-seeking. Drawing on intellectual history, literature, psychoanalysis, and contemporary social theory, this book explains how and why we have chosen loneliness over...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177.7 PHISummary: An intriguing invitation brings six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death. Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ESCKline, Adam (Adam K.)
Summary: "We all have good luck and bad, courtesy of our very own lucky rabbits and black cats. Most people never even notice them. Cecil Bean had certainly never noticed his villainous cat, Millikin, or his devoted rabbit, Leek. At least not until Millikin hatched a deliciously evil plan to have Leek vanish within a magician's hat, leaving Cecil with no good luck at all. Thrown into a shadowy, perilous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLICohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DALSummary: "A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023