Andrew Dunn
Author
Language
English
Description
Backpackers on Wheels is a manual for travel organizing, essentially a "how-to" guide. It is directed at first-time travelers and experienced travelers alike. First-time travelers will benefit from this book by avoiding potholes in organizing their travel. Experienced travelers will benefit from this book by streamlining their travel arrangements and perhaps widening their travel horizons. This book is a practical guide to contemporary travel in a...
2) Skyscrapers
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson Learning
Language
English
Description
Discusses the aesthetic and practical values of skyscrapers and the technology used to build them
5) Dams
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson Learning
Language
English
Description
Discusses the design and construction of various kinds of dams, the benefits gained from them, and some of the negative consequences of damming. Includes several related projects.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Holly is an up-and-coming caterer and Messer is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, all they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof....
9) Ithaca
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as Spring turns to Summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
10) Man up
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong?
11) The Children Act
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.