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Author
Publisher
Island Press
Language
English
Description
"When the residents of Leadville, Colorado awoke the morning of February 23, 1983, it was to the Arkansas River gushing blood red with toxic mine waste headed straight to a pump station supplying public water. The event sparked a Superfund cleanup that drew national attention at the same time the mining industry abandoned the people it had supported with employment for more than a century.
That volatile formula catapulted the town into a modern-day...
2002) Faith of my fathers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Congressman John McCain explains how he learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It's 1917, on the eve of the Russian Revolution, and a young doctor (Radcliffe) arrives in the middle of the night to lead an eerie, back-woods hospital. Fresh from med school, he is completely unprepared for the bizarre people and alarming medical maladies that face him, so, in an unexpected twist, he turns to his older self (Hamm) for advice. It's a fascinating, dark and original comedy with two of Hollywood's leading talents that surprises and...
2004) Emma: 2010 BBC version
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A young gentlewoman's matchmaking schemes for herself and others cause upheaval in her English village.
2005) Wild Bill
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Jeff Bridges portrays Wild Bill Hickok, the hard-drinking, quick-shooting gunslinger.