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Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"One hundred years ago, American patriots picked up rifles and fought against British tyranny. That was Boston. There the enemy was King George III and his British troops. Now, In Last Chance, Texas, in the Big Bend River country, it's Abraham Hacker, a ruthless cattle baron who will slaughter anyone who tries to lay claim to the fertile land and everything on it. For Last Chance, freedom is under siege one violent act at a time. Until wounded Texas...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Charles O'Brien falls in love with April Burke, a beautiful, much younger Englishwoman, when he offers to help her reclaim and restore her family's Irish estate, in a saga set against the Irish struggle to regain land taken from them by England's colonization.
8) Blood memory
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Targeted for assassination after doing a story on an attempt by the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes to file a claim on their ancestral lands, Denver reporter Catherine McLeod uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians.
9) Joe Kidd
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
10) Wish you well
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A Mind to Stay is a unique and extraordinary historical narrative of generations of a Black family with roots in slavery and in the South. This family won their freedom with emancipation but, instead of fleeing the poverty and oppression of the White plantation, decided to stay on the homeland of their White masters and then to purchase it for themselves within a decade. In a true counterpoint to the predominant tale of the Black exodus north in...
Author
Pub. Date
Ã2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a teenage couple abandons their baby at the gate of the estate owned by Lydia Blessing, Skip Cuddy, the estate caretaker, decides to raise the child himself, a decision that has a profound effect on the lives of everyone in the community.
16) The secret river
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
18) The widow's tale
Author
Publisher
RB Large Print
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed and still grieving, Cristiana Helyngton finds her life wrenched apart by her late husband's greedy and ambitious relatives, who are determined to have control of her lands and her daughters. Kidnapped, defamed, and imprisoned in a nunnery, she must find a way to save herself before she can save her children.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
Ã2006
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
The telegraph trail (1933, 54 min.): A villainous freighter is out to stop the country's first telegraph line. He enlists the aid of local renegades to carry out his plan, but John Wayne rides to the rescue.
Somewhere in Sonora (1933, 57 min.): Falsely accused of misconduct during a rodeo race, a cowboy heads for Mexico. Once there, however, he learns that a group of outlaws plans to rob a silver mine owned by the father of the girl he loves.
The...