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"For one young girl, summer is the season of no school, of days spent at the pool, and of picking golden limes off the trees. But summer doesn't start until her Lola--her grandmother from the Philippines--comes for her annual visit. When Lola visits, the whole family gathers to cook and eat and share in their happiness of another season spent together"--
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Until 1348, people in Sienna and Florence enjoyed the richest, safest, and most comfortable lives in their history. But almost overnight, their certainty of life-and even any hope of a good death-was gone. This program assesses the aftermath of the ferocious damage unleashed by the bubonic plague on the two city-states. Historians Alexander Nagel and Nicholas Terpstra, from the University of Toronto, and professional artisans-chief among them, sculptor...
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Tour the Wurlitzer factory in North Tonawanda, New York and see the manufacturing of coin-operated phonographs. A color sequence reveals the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company factory and its surroundings. The film switches to black-and-white and reveals the different stages of Wurlitzer production.
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Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
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Just a day after the cease-fire, news correspondents in this program journeyed into Baghdad to offer firsthand perspectives on the political, social, and religious fault lines exposed with the fall of Saddam Hussein. Balanced in its assessment, the program features interviews with Iraqi clerics, businessmen, scholars, and street protesters, as well as U.S. Army soldiers and their commanders, providing valuable insights into the complexities and problems...
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Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.
It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.
And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Russian generals talk with freed prisoners of war; Winston Churchill, Field Marshalls Montgomery and Brooke, and General Simpson inspect the Siegfried Line; Generals Eisenhower and Simpson view a battle area. 2. An American ship brings lend-lease equipment to LeHavre, France. 3. A ceremony in a Dutch town where the public square is renamed in honor of the 30th Infantry ("Old Hickory")...