Simon Jones
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to create a short presentation video with the easy-to-use, yet powerful, HitFilm Express video editing software.
Find out how to give a great presentation and captivate an audience?whether online or in a board room?using video. This course teaches the essentials of creating high-quality video content using equipment you already have and a software you can readily download?HitFilm Express. The full range of the production workflow is covered,...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to create high-quality video content using the free version of HitFilm Express.
Video editing doesn't need to be complicated or expensive. HitFilm Express is free filmmaking software with many robust editing and effects capabilities. For the novice, it's perfect for most basic and intermediate functions, including editing, trimming, effects, compositing, audio editing, titling, and more. This course provides introductory video editing...
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Publisher
Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
p2008.
Language
English
Description
The Hunters are your typical family, with typical concerns, work, money, love, the trials of adolescence ---with one difference: they are protected by a highly atypical dog, their black Labrador, Prince. Prince views it as his sacrd duty to protect his family and to guard its integrity. He finds himself confounded by the odd behavior of the humans he loves. To save the family, Prince must betray the ancient Pact of the Labradors -- a decision that...
5) Lionboy
Author
Series
Lionboy trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.
Author
Series
Erec Rex volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Life is not easy for twelve-year old Erec Rex. His single mother can barely support her six adopted kids. And they've moved into an apartment so tiny that Erec sleeps with the washing machine. Worse, there is a strange force within Erec that is making him do odd things. His urge to obey these thoughts grows, until it becomes impossible to resist them. Then one morning, Erec's mother is missing. The force inside Erec commands him to find her, leading...
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 6
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
In a continuation of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" saga, Arthur Dent returns to Earth from his galactic adventures and discovers that the planet is about to be blown up yet again.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Illustrates the lives and insights of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis through dramatic storytelling and visual recreations, as well as interviews with biographers and historians. Interspersed throughout the film are discussions among a group of seven participants, moderated by Dr. Armand Nicholi, where Freud and Lewis are brought together in a great debate.
11) Klondike
Publisher
Entertainment One Television
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
The story centers on the friendship of two adventurers, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, as they travel North West during the Klondike Gold Rush. Along the way they must navigate harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters.
12) The Unwanteds
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
13) Ptolemy's gate
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
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Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
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Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of his elders, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notches and show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he summons the powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel...
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Language
English
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"The renowned social scientist, professor, and bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delivers his most urgent and compelling book—an eye-opening exploration of the human side of the misinformation crisis—examining what drives otherwise rational people to adopt deeply irrational beliefs. Misinformation affects all of us on a daily basis—from social media to larger political challenges, from casual conversations in supermarkets, to even...
16) The Thief Lord
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
17) The golem's eye
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
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Language
English
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A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence.
The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the Foire aux Escargots. We attend a truly French marathon, where the beverage of choice is Château Lafite-Rothschild rather than Gatorade....
The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the Foire aux Escargots. We attend a truly French marathon, where the beverage of choice is Château Lafite-Rothschild rather than Gatorade....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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We think of money as numbers, values, and amounts, but when it comes down to it, when we actually use our money, we engage our hearts more than our heads. Emotions play a powerful role in shaping our financial behavior, often making us our own worst enemies as we try to save, access value, and spend responsibly. In Dollars and Sense, bestselling author and behavioral economist Dan Ariely teams up with financial comedian and writer Jeff Kreisler to...