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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
All aboard for a wild ride on the Island of Sodor as Thomas and his engine friends deliver some Curious Cargo, from giraffes and cows to birds and bunnies and more! Thomas meets a tall challenge while taking a giraffe to the Sodor Wildlife Center, Percy learns to be gentle with the animals of Sodor, and Belle and Toby discover the importance of listening to others. Join Thomas on his wildest adventures yet! Special features included.
Pub. Date
[2011], c2004
Language
English
Description
Dangerous cargo comes in all shapes and sizes. Transportation of these potentially deadly loads is one of the most meticulously thought-out procedures in the world of shipping. Special trucks and containers are as vital for the movement of dynamite as they are for the storage of hazardous chemical materials. On the road, this type of cargo is monitored by satellite tracking with a multitude of safety precautions built into the journey.
5) White cargo
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"They should have killed millionaire Wendell 'Cat' Catledge, but they let him live while they sent his family and his yacht to a watery grave. They let him live knowing he could never find them in the deadly drug towns of Colombia, where they ruled as untouchable kings. They, late one night Catledge receives a phone call -- and one word launches one man's total war against a ruthless and terrifying evil."
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Ever wondered what it's like to get caught red-handed at the border? Fraudulent visas. Narcotics mules. Stolen art. Human trafficking. Illegal citrus. It's all part of a day's work at JFK airport in New York. Forbidden Cargo brings you an inside look at the operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents at the busiest international airport in America. Nearly half a million...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
By the mid 1800 the street corners of New York City were home to several thousand homeless, abandoned and orphaned children. Relief came with the establishment of the Children's Aid Society in 1853 by one Charles Loring Brace. The society would gather likely orphans and send them west by train in groups of anywhere from 6-100, stopping at predetermined destinations where it was known foster homes were available. Agents were to visit these foster homes...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Alex Haley's Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slavery. The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people"--Provided by publisher.
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
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"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
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English
Description
This film investigates the underwater evidence off the American and British target beaches of Normandy; and with the help of survivors, dramatic reconstruction, 3D graphics and a team of leading nautical archaeologists, re-creates what really happened 58 years ago and explains why so much went wrong.
14) Flight or fright
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
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