David Morse
Author
Series
Edens Lost and Found volume 3
Language
English
Description
This documentary focused on Philadelphia is hosted by actor and Philadelphia resident David Morse. It describes how concerned citizens like activists Doris Doris Gualtney and Iris Brown, muralist Jane Golden, sculptor Lily Yeh, musician Kenny Gamble, and gardener Mary Corby have come together to return the city to its Eden-like state through multiple environmental projects.
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Language
English
Description
In 1966, Peggy Ann Bradnick was walking home from school with her siblings, until she was abducted by ex-convict and mental ward patient William Diller Hollenbaugh. Based on a true story, law enforcement and compassionate citizens race against the clock to rescue Peggy Ann before it's too late. The search for the Mountain Man still stands as the largest-scale manhunt in Pennsylvanian history.
3) McCanick
Author
Language
English
Description
An out of control narcotics detective with a secret past hunts down a harmless low level criminal who knows the real truth about his past.
4) 12th Hour
Author
Language
English
Description
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm.
Author
Language
English
Description
Embark on a Soulful Journey: From First Love's Innocence, Through Soul-Reflecting Companionship, to Self-Transformation for Love's Ultimate Discovery.
In The Mirror, The Window, The Door, we traverse the path of love through three distinct stages of life. This collection of works encapsulates the profound journey of self-discovery and emotional growth that one undergoes in their quest for soulful connection.
The first stage, represented by the...
Author
Language
English
Description
With decades of experience in multicultural marketing, author David Morse reviews the history of marketing to black, Hispanic, Asian, and LGBTQ consumers. He explains how including appropriate cultural cues in advertising can build brand loyalty that will pay huge dividends. He also cautions that missing the mark with advertising that excludes or is culturally offensive can be a costly mistake. Replete with scores of examples of campaigns that have...
7) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...
11) The Green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
On the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary miracles have come to life through a gentle giant who has supernatural powers that bring a senses of spirit and humanity to the guards and other inmates.
12) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A hard-drinking, has-been cop faces obstacles when he is assigned the task of transporting a witness from the jail to the courthouse so he can testify against members of the NYPD.
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set amid wholly unique and fabulist worlds, the stories of The Book of Disbelieving present a cast of characters tangled in challenges of faith, whether in god, in nature, in memory, or even in reality. These are stories of villages built atop fish, of holidays designed to encourage literal leaps of faith, of widows left to make sense of memories both real and imagined.--Publisher.
14) 12th Hour
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm. Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which have developed naturally as part of human evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address a problem with the spatial and temporal scope...
15) Collaborator
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to his childhood home to look in on his mother, famous playwright Robert Longfellow (Martin Donovan) is taken hostage by Gus (David Morse), an ex-con neighbor he has avoided since he was a boy. As the drama unfolds on the cable news channels, the two men unexpectedly bond until the mood darkens and shots ring out.
17) McCanick
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a criminal is released from prison, a narcotics detective starts a manhunt to keep the criminal from revealing details about the detective's true past.
18) Proof of life
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman's husband for ransom-- 3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice's only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
19) Proof of Life
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When a U.S. citizen working in South America is abducted and his employers cannot buy his release, the man's wife hires a kidnap-and-ransom specialist for a daring scheme to free him in this fast-paced thriller.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) delivers a provocative mix of drama and musical theater in this acclaimed movie that won 2000 **Cannes Film Festival** Best Picture and Best Actress honors (for lead actress Björk). Rural factory worker Selma (Björk) is a single mother losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. To protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma saves money to get him an operation. At night, Selma escapes into...