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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
" Pre-order Price Guarantee. Terms In this engaging and moving middle grade novel, Saadia Faruqi writes about a contemporary Pakistani American girl whose passion for journalism starts a conversation about her grandmother's experience of the Partition of India and Pakistan-and the bond that the two form as she helps Dadi tell her story. When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is...
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Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lamar dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but when his grandfather is killed in a racist act of violence, Lamar becomes determined to honor his legacy by documenting the fight for justice.
''A powerful contemporary novel about an aspiring 12-year-old filmmaker whose world is turned upside down when his grandfather is slain in a senseless and racist act of violence. From the author of the award-winning memoir, Defiant: Growing Up in the...
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"From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping mystery thriller following one teen's search for the truth about her mother's shocking disappearance—and even more shocking reappearance—during the filming of a true crime documentary. Lights. Camera. Lies. Eighteen-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom's mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
"This riveting documentary by filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania uses an audacious formal conceit to tell the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters. Attempting to answer the question of how and why the Tunisian woman's two eldest were radicalized, Ben Hania reveals a complex history. We watch as the family relives key events in their lives with help from professional actors standing in for the missing girls. Winner of the Best Documentary award...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Women's professional softball has spent decades fighting for survival, forcing the best players in the world to choose between their livelihood and their dreams. This is the story of one woman and her team who sacrifice it all and refuse to let those dreams slip away.
As women's pro softball fights for survival, the world's best players must choose: make a living or follow a dream. Burn the Ships is the story of one woman's refusal to let those dreams...
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From the frigid suburbs of Buffalo NY to his early years living and busking on the streets of San Francisco, to formative experiences with punk band The Nerves and L.A. power pop legends The Plimsouls, to his decades-long, Grammy-nominated solo career, walk a million miles in the shoes of one of America's last great troubadours.
7) The gardener
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A documentary directed by Sebastien Chabot about Frank Cabot's Les Quatre Vents, AKA Cabot Garden, a magnificent private garden in the Charlevoix region near Quebec City.
Gardener and horticulturalist Frank Cabot gives the history of Les Quatre Vents, his twenty-acre English style garden in Charlevoix County, Quebec, and discusses his philosophy of gardening.
Series
Criterion collection volume 360
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A fiction/documentary hybrid that blurs the line between reality and fiction, yet remains a tightly focused movie about making movies. Bonus disc includes 2005 sequel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2; a video interview with Steve Buscemi; and more!
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one: There have been many films about their own making, but few that examine the creative process from so many perspectives as this one. Greaves uses the shooting of one scene...
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