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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author's father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait...
Author
Publisher
Voracious/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America's most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors, but also artistic collaborators, political activists, and philanthropists whose legacies are expansive and enduringly...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young scout guides a wagon train of pioneers out west; Townsend Harris is appointed the first U.S. Consul-General to Japan in 1856; during the Civil War, a Union calvary brigade stages a daring raid behind enemy lines; a gold miner finds himself falling for his partner's fiancée; a police officer and his prisoner join together to defeat violent whiskey runners in pre-Civil War Texas; the story of the Allied invasion in Normandy during World War...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report....
Series
Publisher
Christian Broadcasting Network
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Joy wants to escape from the hospital, where she must have her tonsils out. How can she find confidence to face the surgery? Superbook takes Joy, Chris, and Gizmo to meet Paul and Silas, who deliver an evil spirit from a fortuneteller. See the amazing way Paul and Silas react when they are beaten and jailed for obeying God. Discover the secret to being content in every situation, an witness a miracle!" -- Package art.
Series
Publisher
Christian Broadcasting Network
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Instead of leading a Bible study, Chris would rather play a hero in his video game. But what does it take to be a real hero? When Superbook takes Chris and Joy on an adventure, Gizmo is left behind! The robot frantically tries to locate his friends while they witness Noah building an ark even though there is no rain, and Rahab bravely hiding the Israelite spies that Joshua sent into Jericho. The children learn how to be a hero in God's eyes!" --...
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Physicist, chemist, and pioneer in the study of radioactivity, Marie Sklodowski Curie spent her life setting precedents. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice. As the first female professor at the University of Paris, she had to overcome the condescension and antagonism of France's male-dominated academic establishment. She also courted controversy of the sort that still threatens to quash the careers...
Series
Publisher
Christian Broadcasting Network
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When a boy named Jia Wei is mocked for inviting students to a Bible study, Chris wonders--shouldn't he keep his beliefs to himself? Chris is stunned to learn that Superbook has taken Jia Wei to meet Peter, who is jailed for preaching about Jesus. Chris, Joy, and Gizmo on a hazardous missionary journey with Paul and Barnabas. Discover how the apostles face the mockery, hardship, and danger as they bravely take the Gospel into the world." -- Package...
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