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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Based on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before."
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native American pro baseball players to face off in a World Series, teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice, and the fight for Native American representation in sports"--
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
During the Republican-dominated Reagan years of the 1980s, two charismatic Democratic presidential contenders came to the forefront, hoping to define their party as the one of vision, inclusion and big ideas. And even though the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Sen. Gary Hart both came up short in 1984 and 1988, their candidacies would help shape their party’s trajectory for decades to come.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
NewsHour's Ray Suarez talks to Maryland's Democratic governor Martin O'Malley and Romney campaign adviser Tevi Troy about how the presidential election campaigns will use the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Obama administration's health care law. Origina?
6) The champion
Author
Series
Contender volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In Taran Matharu's The Champion, the explosive final book in the Contender trilogy, Cade and his friends wage the ultimate battle for their lives-and the fate of Earth itself-in the Game set by the cruel and mysterious Pantheon.
Author
Series
Contender volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cade Carter and his friends have survived the qualifying round of the mysterious overlords' twisted games, decimated by the loss of so many of their comrades during the fight. But they have no time to mourn, for the next round of trials is about to begin. When the group discovers that their next foe will be even more ferocious than the last, Cade leads them on a quest out into their strange new world to find anything that might give them an edge....
Language
English
Description
MUSIC MAN tells the story of professor and inventor Ge Wang who teaches computer music at Stanford University where he began the innovative Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Wang believes everyone who loves music should be able to play it. To that end, Wang was the first to turn the IPhone into a musical instrument when he created the "Ocarina" phone app which became one of the most popular in the world when it was launched in 2009.
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