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Marco and Alyssa have a once in a lifetime kind of love. The problem - he is literally the man of her dreams. Marco is part of a mythical race known as Dreamers. His job as a Dream Walker is to guide mortals to their dreams and Alyssa is one of his charges.The opposite of a Walker is a Runner - someone that pushes their charges into nightmares. When Marco comes face-to-face with the Runner assigned to Alyssa, his love for her is threatened.Will love...
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Dreamer: Life on Ooba is the first of a three-book series. The series follows the life of Skade who is known as a Dreamer. After living on Ooba for several years, he becomes an outlaw based off of some false accusations. Skade tries to navigate his own abilities while at the same time creating a good name for himself and his family. As more and more people look to him for help, he feels added pressure and stress. He is tasked with a very important...
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Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English humourist and writer. Zangwill wrote the influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot" to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularized by his play The Melting Pot, a hit in the United States in 1908.
He also wrote mystery works, such as The Big Bow Mystery and social satire such as The King of Schnorrers. Dreamers...
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Florida has been the home of many unusual characters throughout the years. Meet Ned Buntline, Laura Riding, Wilson Mizner, Sam Jones, and many others. Storytellers, lawbreakers, movers and shakers, sportsmen, moviemakers, visionaries, and mobsters all left their mark on Florida.
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First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
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Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Denise Scott Brown - four trailblazers who became accustomed to being the only woman in the room. Each has an extensive list of accomplishments in architecture, planning and landscape architecture dating back 60+ years and has taught, mentored and inspired generations of professionals. Since the 1950's, they have worked for and collaborated with some of the leading figures in architecture,...
10) Babylon Dreamers
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Maya Weinberg
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2016.
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Russian
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A group of young immigrants in Israel is trying to win the International Breakdance Championship. The intense competition is primary focus of their lives, but as we watch them practice and rehearse we enter a world of crisis and alienation. Mixer, 27, is supporting his young family and trying to help his younger brother and sister, who still live with their alcoholic mom. Potter, 21, is in the army now; he still dreams of dancing, but has no one to...
11) Wild dreamers
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Atheneum
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2024.
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Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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A small group of Pintupi living in west Central Australia today can remember their first meeting with a white man, their first impressions of the white man's world and their expectations of what the white world had to offer. Benny and the Dreamers reveals for the first time on film the Australian Aboriginal peoples' version of their first contact with white culture which was to change their traditional way of life forever. For some it was a terrifying...
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Leah is blonde, Anglo, and until recently was unable to fulfill the fantasies she'd been having for months about her internet friend. A sudden windfall allows her to seek out her friend, her potential lover, and fulfill those wants, desires, and fantasies.
Carmen, a Latina, has never had feelings like this for an Anglo. And her friends cannot understand her being faithful to a woman she has never met.
When Leah and Carmen meet for the first time,...
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The Great Courses
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2017.
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The 19th century was the "century of utopia" and also marked the transition from utopian to dystopian stories in popular literature. Look at Americans who attempted to build real-world utopias, and in turn examine the work of two authors who reacted to the American attempt at perfect societies. Consider the ways that optimistic, utopian thinking is integral to the idea of the American Dream.
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With this new audio collection of Little People, BIG DREAMS stories, you'll learn about the lives of some amazing people throughout history.
This set includes stories about:
• Stephen Hawking, the scientist who discovered groundbreaking information about black holes
• Muhammad Ali, the medal-winning boxer who floated like a butterfly and stung liked a bee
• Frida Kahlo, who suffered from polio as a child and became one of the world's...
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This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles. Hemingway's hobbies, Amelia Earhart's preferred dessert, Martin Luther King Jr.'s favorite TV show-each portrait reveals the ordinary quirks of these extraordinary...
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He's a reincarnated warrior for the Divine feminine. She walks in dreams. Will the dark win the tie-breaker battle?Kai Matthieus receives a bloody message from a past-life foe. After visiting a psychic friend, he arms himself with three magical tools. Calling in his ex-military teammates, they piece together the enemy's identity and how to stop it. It will take their military skills and paranormal talents if they are to survive the coming battle.Peyton...
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Dreams aren't always what they seem-at least, not for Sihera and Jokahn, two teenagers gifted with a rare magic, allowing them to glimpse into the future. Sihera wasn't strong enough to protect her family. Now, as she is haunted by visions of Jokahn's murder, Sihera is plunged into a high-stakes race against time to save his life.Meanwhile, Jokahn, an orphaned pickpocket unaware of his own power, encounters a beautiful and mysterious warrior princess...
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