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The lamb of Wall Street : how a trailblazing financial executive found her true calling in creating economic opportunity for impoverished communities around the world / by Bruton, Karen,author.(CARDINAL)885109;
"A female math whiz overcomes gender discrimination to achieve success in the stock options market and invests her profits in supporting struggling communities across the globe, only to be attacked by the SEC and lose her fortune to defend her honor. Karen Bruton's passions collided in 2007 when she found her life's work to use the power of business to make an enduring impact that transforms lives. Before founding Just Hope International, Karen had participated in numerous mission trips to feed the hungry, build churches, and drill wells. Her experiences convinced her that God was calling her to help people living in poverty and that handouts are a dead end to lasting change. While traveling to Peru in 2007, Karen experienced her first "Ah-ha!" moment in Anyana, a small village destroyed by two decades of attacks and oppression by Shining Path terrorists. During that trip, Karen brought guinea pigs, chickens, and seeds to people working to rebuild their lives. They used the livestock and agricultural supplies to grow businesses to provide sustainable and steady income. A hand up, says Karen, is the way to make a lasting difference. That same year, Karen left the comfort of her corporate job, began trading professionally, and pursued her desire to make a lasting impact. She founded Just Hope International with the mission to empower people living in some of the world's most difficult living conditions. Her focus is to help remarkable people provide for themselves by earning a sustaining household income. In addition to Karen's service in Peru, Just Hope has implemented programs in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Panama, Honduras, Thailand, India, Malawi, and Nicaragua. Programs include agriculture training, savings groups, and business mentoring. Today Just Hope serves in Colombia, South America, achieving its mission of economic empowerment through orphan transition work known as Thriving Skills. Just Hope created this program to equip teenaged residents under institutional care with practical knowledge and skills for life once they age out, often by eighteen"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Bruton, Karen.; Financial executives; Nonprofit organizations.; Women philanthropists;
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Messenger by moonlight : a novel / by Whitson, Stephanie Grace,author.(CARDINAL)385672;
"Bestselling author Stephanie Grace Whitson's latest historical novel features an adventurous young heroine who joins the Pony Express. Orphaned Annie Paxton and her brothers may have lost the only home they've ever known, but they're determined to make a better future in St. Joseph, Missouri. Annie dreams of a pretty house with window boxes, and having friends, and attending church every week. But then her brothers spot the ad for a new venture called the Pony Express. "Wanted," it reads, "Young, skinny fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders and willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred." Sure enough, both her brothers land jobs as Express messengers, and Annie puts her dreams on hold to work as a cook at Clearwater Ranch, a station along the Pony Express route. Annie struggles to adapt to her new job--work made all the more challenging when she has so many to feed and few ingredients. The gruff station owner, George, doesn't seem inclined to make her life any easier, or at least not at first. But slowly a friendship builds between them. When Annie attracts the attention of a refined, dashing lieutenant from the nearby fort, she'll have to learn how to trust her instincts and follow her heart, even if she's conflicted about which way it's leading her. "--Orphaned Annie Paxton and her brothers are determined to make a better future in St. Joseph, Missouri. When her brothers spot the ad for a new venture called the Pony Express, they land jobs as Express messengers, and Annie puts her dreams on hold to work as a cook at Clearwater Ranch, a station along the Pony Express route. Her work is made all the more challenging when she has so many to feed and few ingredients. The gruff station owner, George, doesn't seem inclined to make her life any easier, but a friendship builds between them. When Annie attracts the attention of a lieutenant from the nearby fort, she must learn how to trust her instincts and follow her heart, even if she's conflicted about which way it's leading her.
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Romance fiction.; Pony express; Orphans;
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Church of Marvels / by Parry, Leslie,1979-author.(CARDINAL)601670;
A ravishing first novel set in the vibrant, tumultuous world of turn-of-the-century New York, about four outsiders whose lives become entwined over the course of one fateful night. New York, 1899. It's late on a warm city night when Sylvan, a night soiler who cleans out the privies behind the tenement houses, pulls a terrible secret out from the filthy hollows: an abandoned newborn baby. An orphan himself, Sylvan can't bring himself to leave the baby in the slop. He tucks her into his chest, resolving to find out where she belongs. Odile is the girl on the wheel, target for the famed knife thrower in a show that has long since lost its magic. Odile and her sister, Belle, were raised in the curtained halls of their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow, The Church of Marvels, but the sideshow has burnt to the ground, their mother lies dead in the ashes, and Belle has run away to Manhattan. Alphie wakes up groggy and confused in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum. The last thing she remembers is a dark stain on the floor, her mother-in-law screaming. She had once walked the streets as an escort and a penny Rembrandt, cleaning up men after their drunken brawls. Now she is married, a lady in a reputable home. She is sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband's vile mother and will do anything to prove her own innocence. But then a young, mute woman is committed alongside her, and when she coughs up a pair of scissors from the depths of her agile throat, a plan is hatched to save them both. On a single night, these strangers' lives will become irrevocably entwined as secrets come to light and outsiders struggle for acceptance. From the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, from a spectacular sideshow to a desolate asylum, Leslie Parry makes turn-of-the-century New York feel alive, vivid, and magical in this luminous debut.Discovering an abandoned newborn while working behind the tenement houses of late-nineteenth-century New York, Sylvan finds his life intertwined with that of a sideshow performer's daughter and a woman wrongly trapped in a lunatic asylum.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Abandoned children; Sisters; Asylums; Mentally ill;
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Zig Ziglar's life lifters : moments of inspiration for living life better / by Ziglar, Zig.(CARDINAL)165078; Life lifters.;
Subjects: Conduct of life.;
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A kingdom of quartz [manga]. by Bomhat(Manga author and artist),author,artist.; Ungurath, Belynda,letterer.;
"Blue finally achieved her dream of entering Helios Training Academy and even managed to win some people over with her bright smile and indomitable spirit. Just when things were looking up, a mishap during a magic class triggered Blue's dark power and left Tannith cursed. Blue is then seized by the Seraphim, the Church's pitiless adjudicators, and taken before the king to answer for her crime. The king seems all too willing to put her to death, but Cassian and Killian step forward to plead for her life. Can Blue undo the curse on Tannith and prove her innocence...or is it too little, too late?" --Rated Teen, 13+First published :
Subjects: Manga.; Graphic novels.; Fantasy comics.; Action and adventure comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Angels; Orphans; Demonology; Imaginary places;
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Delta jewels : in search of my grandmother's wisdom / by Steele, Alysia Burton.(CARDINAL)410459;
Family Tree -- Map of Mississippi Delta Region -- The Inspiration -- Tennie (Tennessee) S. Self, Clarksdale -- Albertine T Reid, Sherard -- Florida B. Smith, Charleston -- Katie M. Richardson, Tunica -- Lillian B. Matthews, Indianola -- Lillie B. Jackson, Tutwiler -- Deloris M. Gresham, Drew -- Joyce Dixon Myers, Ruleville -- Ruby Hooper-White, Ruleville -- Jean C. Woodley, Dundee -- Velma T. Moore, Grapeland -- Myrlie Evers, Jackson -- Gram's Story: Hat. Coat. Purse -- Curtistene Short Davis, Leland -- Rosie H. Bynum, Leland -- Easter W. Summerville, Leland -- Rachel J. Scurlock, Charleston -- Maude W. Coleman, Greenville -- Gram's Story: My Mississippi Burning -- Annyce P. Campbell, Mound Bayou -- Leola W. Overton, Clarksdale -- Gram's Story: I Felt Like an Orphan -- Juanita W. Turney, Greenville -- Gram's Story: Gram, Me and Rick James -- Rena Butler, Clarksdale -- Ivey B. Anderson, Mound Bayou -- Gram's Story: Gram Married at 17 -- Mildred W. Lee, Marks -- Gram's Story: "Say Goodnight, Lisa" -- Rebecca "Ma Beck" Hawkins, Indianola -- Ora D. Jackson, Merigold -- Viola J. Sisson, Greenwood -- Ceola L. Causey, Drew -- Ollie L. Mack, Yazoo City -- Bettie L. Clark, Yazoo City -- Leola B. Dillard, Yazoo City -- Alma B. Tucker, Webb -- Bessie M. Thompson, Charleston -- Gram's Story: Gram Wasn't Sure I Learned Anything -- Margie T. Johnson, Hollandale -- Mary L. Chatman, Cleveland -- Gram's Story: Pop Didn't Have to Say a Word -- Delcia R. Davis, Indianola -- Easter Lee Sharp, Shaw -- Gram's Story: Decently and in Order -- Daisy Idleburg, Mound Bayou -- Gram's Story: I Never Skipped School Again -- Ruby Perry Patton, Shelby -- Annie McFarland Mister, Grenada -- Emma Eudora McGee Horton, Charleston -- Lillie V. Thompson Davis, Marks -- Gram's Story: Funny, I'm Just Like Gram -- Magolia M. Fox, Grenada -- Margaret Henry, Mound Bayou -- Gram's Story: Gram-Sweat Pants, a Blazer and High Heels -- Dorothy A. Kee, Coffeeville -- Lela J. Bearden, Sumner -- Gram's Story: A Gram Legacy -- Lillie M. Roberts, Coffeeville -- Beatrice P. Smith, Charleston -- Herma S. Mims Floyd, Sumner -- Larvarah Jones, Ruleville -- Corine Thomas, Lambert -- Irene Thornton, Lambert -- Mary Ella Young, Ruleville -- Glennie Mae Houston, Tillatoba -- Virginia Hower, Clarksdale."Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele--picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team--combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman--child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi--a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Illustrated works.; Steele, Alysia Burton; African American women; African American women; African Americans; Elders (Church officers); African American grandmothers; Intergenerational relations; Intergenerational relationships.;
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The Academy Award for best picture goes to... [videorecording] by Affleck, Ben,1972-film producer,film director,actor.(CARDINAL)646193; Ali, Mahershala,1974-actor.(CARDINAL)787472; Arkin, Alan,actor.(CARDINAL)348089; Ball, Alan,1957-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)382230; Beaufoy, Simon,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)847024; Bening, Annette,actor.; Birch, Thora,actor.(CARDINAL)847768; Boyle, Danny,film director.; Burke, Jim(Producer),film producer.; Cardellini, Linda,1975-actor.(CARDINAL)340080; Chheda, Tanay Hemant,actor.; Clooney, George,film producer.(CARDINAL)529899; Cohen, Bruce,1961-film producer.; Colson, Christian,film producer.; Currie, Brian,1961-screenwriter,film producer.; Dale, J. Miles,film producer.(CARDINAL)601192; Farrelly, Peter,film director,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)764898; Faust, Blye Pagon,film producer.; Golin, Steve,film producer.(CARDINAL)843645; Goodman, John,1952-actor.(CARDINAL)344847; Hawkins, Sally,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)690380; Heslov, Grant,1963-film producer.(CARDINAL)786800; Jenkins, Richard,1947-actor.(CARDINAL)543428; Jinks, Dan,film producer.; Keaton, Michael,1951-actor.(CARDINAL)340077; Khedekar, Ayush Mahesh,actor.; McAdams, Rachel,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)546744; McCarthy, Tom,1966-film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)787267; Mendes, Sam,film director.(CARDINAL)848019; Mortensen, Viggo,1958-actor.(CARDINAL)686550; Patel, Dev,1990-actor.; Rocklin, Nicole,1979-film producer.; Ruffalo, Mark,actor.(CARDINAL)357185; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.(CARDINAL)344061; Singer, Josh,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)788240; Spacey, Kevin,actor.(CARDINAL)347745; Sugar, Michael,film producer.(CARDINAL)340613; Tandan, Loveleen,film director.; Taylor, Vanessa,1978-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)615046; Terrio, Chris,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)482450; Toro, Guillermo del,1964-film director,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)351807; Vallelonga, Nick,screenwriter,film producer.; Wessler, Charles B.,film producer.; Binge Box (Firm),publisher.; Celador Films,presenter.; Cinetic Media (Firm),production company.; DDY (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)619180; DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006),presenter.(CARDINAL)340063; FilmFour (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)346669; Fox Searchlight Pictures,presenter.(CARDINAL)341211; GK Films (Los Angeles, Calif.),presenter.(CARDINAL)787683; Innisfree Pictures,production company.; Jinks/Cohen Company,production company.; Participant Media,presenter.(CARDINAL)300208; Smoke House Pictures,production company.; TSG Entertainment,presenter.(CARDINAL)343576; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ),presenter.;
American beauty: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.Argo: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Željko Ivanek, Titus Welliver, Keith Szarabajka, Bob Gunton, Richard Kind, Richard Dillane, Omid Abtahi, Page Leong, Farshad Farahat, Sheila Vand.Green book: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, P.J. Byrne, Mike Hatton, Von Lewis, Don Stark.Slumdog millionaire: Dev Patel, Tanay Hemant Chheda, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Freida Pinto, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Rubina Ali, Madhur Mittal, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan.Spotlight: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian D'Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup, Paul Guilfoyle, Jamey Sheridan, Len Cariou, Neal Huff, Michael Cyril Creighton, Michael Countryman.The shape of water: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer, Nick Searcy, David Hewlett.American beauty: An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.Argo: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Based on the declassified true story.Green book: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime. Inspired by a true friendship.Slumdog millionaire: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Every chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible questions. When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers watch to find out if he can answer the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.Spotlight: The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.The shape of water: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (aspect ratios vary by movie).
Subjects: Biographical films.; Buddy films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Historical films.; Road films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); African American composers; African American entertainers; African American musicians; Americans; Child sexual abuse; Intelligence officers; Investigative reporting; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Laboratories; Midlife crisis; Motor vehicle drivers; Orphans; Pianists; Racism; Science; Security classification (Government documents); Suburban life; Suspicion; Television quiz shows; Terrorism;
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An American dream.
Beginning quite mysteriously in September 1845, healthy green leaves on potato plants suddenly turned black, curled; and then rotted. Then like an uncontrollable wildfire in a wind-swept forest, winds from southern England carried that mysterious blight to leaves of healthy potato plants around the Dublin countryside. As fungal spores they multiplied, cool breezes quickly spread that same unchecked blight to surrounding plants throughout all the potato fields of Ireland. This blight quickly became an imperiling devastation; casting Ireland into a horrifying tribulation. One-third of Ireland's population had become solely dependent on the potato to sustain their livelihood...the Irish potato famine would reduce the already desolate Irish people to penniless dehumanized paupers and homeless outcast...the infamous Irish potato famine had begun. Caught-up in the famine's inescapable grasp was the Andrew and Mattie O'Malley family, innocent Catholic potato farmers with three children: two teen-age sons and a six-year old daughter named Rose. Their survival and existence now at the mercy of English and Anglo-Irish land owners that were loyal members of The Anglican Church of England The British Government defended the vindictive landowners by failing to initiate any reactionary measures to relieve the devastating problems of the Irish people. The effects of not taking measures to address or reconcile those issues, created a host of political, social and economic factors that forever etched irreconcilable resentment and distrust on the English and Irish demographic landscape. But, far worse, was the direct devastation subjected on the helpless Irish people. Over the next six years, more than a million Irish men, women and children would die from mass starvation or from infectious diseases resulting from that mysterious blight and the lack of government intervention. Another million would flee Ireland on questionable sea-worthy disease infested sailing ships dubbed "famine ships" or "coffin ships" to America. This is a story of unrivaled courage shown by an eight-year old Irish girl; orphaned by the infamous Irish potato famine in the 1840's. She came to America alone on a disease infested famine ship during the time of legalized slavery and uncontested bigotry and dedicated her life's work to eradicate both.
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Folktales told around the world / by Dorson, Richard M.(Richard Mercer),1916-1981.(CARDINAL)141298;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.EUROPE -- Fionn in search of his youth ; The cold May night / Sean O'Sullivan -- The King of England ; Johnnie in the cradle ; Applie and orangie ; The Aberdonians and the chocolates ; The lone Highlander ; The minister to his flock / Hamish Henderson -- The blacksmith's son ; Black Patrick's bowshot / John MacInnes -- Annie Luker's ghost ; The grey goose feathers ; The five-pound note / Katharine M. Briggs and Ruth L. Tongue -- Cinderella ; The scalded wolf / Geneviève Massignon -- The unbeliever and the skull ; Santa Catalina ; The mass of Saint Joseph / Aurelio M. Espinosa -- Bertoldino ; The tale of the sister cat ; The dove and the fox / Carla Bianco -- Summoned into the Valley of Josaphat ; About the black spider ; Sennentunscheli on the Wyssenboden ; The knife in the hay / Robert Wildhaber -- The swineherd who married a princess ; The ox as mayor / Kurt Ranke -- The drinking horn stolen from the Huldre folk at (a) Vallerhaug, (b) Vellerhaug, (c) Hifjell ; The altarpiece in Ringsaker Church / Reidar Christiansen -- The hunter's joke / Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa -- Old Fakla and the sleeping knights ; The holy figure in Szaflary ; The ages of man ; Song of the thief / Julian Krzyzanowski -- The magic calk ; Lazybones / Linda Dégh -- The sorcerer and his apprentice / Mark Azadovskij -- Peter the Great and the stonemason ; The two thieves / I.V. Karnaukhova -- The lake spirits of Peristera and Xerovouni / Georgios A. Megas -- MIDDLE EAST -- Nasreddin Hodja and Tamerlane ; The smart brother and the crazy brother ; Dervish Baba / Ilhan Bașgöz -- The sure news is up ahead ; The falcon's daughter ; The sparrow and the king ; The cruel mother-in-law / Hasan El-Shamy -- A dispute in sign language ; A tale of a Jew who bridled the wind / Dov Noy -- ASIA -- Teja and Teji ; The mother serpent ; The king of cheats ; The monk who dueled ; Mataru the grandfather ; Tenali Rama and the king's pets ; The peasant Thanthanpal ; Babar Deva the outlaw / Praphulladatta Goswami -- The romance of the Mongol girl and the Arab boy ; The decapitation of Sufi Islam ; The two thieves with the same wife ; Khastakhumār and Bībīnagār ; The seventy-year-old corpse / Hafizullah Baghban -- The mountain where old people were abandoned / Keigo Seki -- The man who bought a dream / Robert J. Adams -- The adulteress rat ; The Gungutan and the big-bellied man ; Agkon, the greedy son / E. Arsenio Manuel -- The seven young sky women / Hazel Wrigglesworth -- The bridge of Ch'üan-Chou ; Chu the rogue / Wolfram Eberhard -- Liar Mvkang and the rich villagers ; Liar Mvkang sells ashes ; Liar Mvkang and the water snake ; The orphan and his grandmother / Suzan Lapai -- Why people's noses run when they catch colds ; The red pond ; The kindhearted crab and the cunning mouse ; The grave of the golden ruler ; The one-sided boy / Yim Suk-Jay.OCEANIA -- The ghosts of the two mountains ; Adventures and death of Rat ; The maiden who married a crane ; The exiled sister and her son ; The mistreated stepson ; The spirit who swallowed people / Roger Mitchell -- The first getting of the way to cultivate Cyrtosperma ; Maui of a thousand tricks / Katharine Luomala -- The myth of Fuusai / Elli Köngäs Maranda -- AFRICA -- The two brothers ; How the society can get back its medicine ; Bush fowl and Turtle build a town / John Milbury-Steen -- Jọmọ, guardian of the great sword ; He-who-meets-problems-alone and He-who-seeks-good-advice / Deirdre La Pin -- Wanto and the shapeless thing ; Wanto and the success-by-the-stump people ; Chameleon wins a wife ; Eagle, python, and weaverbird ; The ant and the termite ; The boy and the buffalo / Philip A. Noss -- Origin of the enmity between dog and leopard ; Trapper, gatherer-of-honey, and cultivator ; How Nturo rejected Mpaca / Daniel P. Biebuyck -- A girl is cast off by her family ; A Zim steals a Duiker's children ; Hlakanyana does mischief but is caught ; Mbengu-Sonyangaza's sister prepares to undergo purification rites / Harold Scheub -- NEW WORLD -- The duck dog ; The tub of butter ; The string of trout ; The sheep and the ram ; The sword of wisdom ; The big dog ; The scalping of Pérusse / Luc Lacourcière -- Selling toilet paper in the subway ; The laughing hyena ; An unexpected donation / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Winabijou (Nanabush) brings on the flood ; The mermaid ; The legend of Yoho Cove ; Paree at the carnival ; Miracles of Saint Spyridon ; The two brothers / Richard M. Dorson -- Kondoy ; On holy week / Américo Paredes -- Ordeal by water ; Little cockroach Martina ; The poor brahmin / Daniel J. Crowley -- Cases / Luis da Camara Cascudo -- Treasure, envy, and witchcraft ; The mouse and the fox ; The condemned lover ; Quevedo works as a cook ; The Lake of Langui / Jean MacLaughlin -- The twin cycle (Yagua) / Paul Powlison -- The Witranalwe who guarded sheep / L.C. Faron -- Pedro Urdemales cheats two horsemen / Yolando Pino-Saavedra.Authentic field-recorded texts of over one hundred tales recited by story-tellers from forty-six cultures around the world, collected as a representative sampling of the world's folk traditions.
Subjects: Fiction.;
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Inside the yellow cocoon shell [videorecording] / by Phạm,Thiên Ân,1989-film director,screenwriter,editor of moving image works.; Trần, Văn Thi,film producer.; Chua, Jeremy,film producer.; Đinh, Duy Hưng,cinematographer.; Nguyẽ̂n, Thị Trúc Quỳnh,actor.; Nguyẽ̂n, Thịnh,actor.; Lê, Phong Vũ,actor.; Vũ, Ngọc Mạnh,actor.; Deuxième Ligne Films,production company.; Fasten Films,production company.; JK Film,production company.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)347545; Potocol (Firm),production company.; Zorba the Imaginary Friend (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Đinh Duy Hưng ; editor, Phạm Thiên Ân.Lê Phong Vũ, Nguyẽ̂n Thị Trúc Quỳnh, Nguyẽ̂n Thịnh, Vũ Ngọc Mạnh.After a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others' religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former girlfriend who now lives as a nun at a Christian church and school, all of these encounters spurred by a series of dreams that reignite suppressed memories.DVD, region 1 NTSC; 1.85:1, 16x9 wide screen; 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo Dolby.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Belief and doubt; Country life; Faith; Families; Homecoming; Missing persons;
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