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If Beale Street Could Talk (DVD)
Kiki Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Michael Beach, Teyonah Parris, …
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Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple's unbreakable bond and the African-American family's empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year old Tish Rivers.
A daughter and wife-to-be, Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny. Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Tish knows that Fonny is innocent, and is mindful that his good friend Daniel Carty has only recently been freed after an unjust incarceration. While Fonny's mother clings to piety and his father grapples with feelings of powerlessness, Tish's earthy father Joseph and fierce older sister Ernestine are unwavering in their support. Even more anxious to clear Fonny's name is Tish's deeply compassionate mother Sharon, readying to put herself on the line for her daughter and future son-in-law's happiness... and for the couple's unborn child, whose arrival will herald new joys and challenges.
Facing the unexpected prospect of parenthood and holding down a job without her partner at her side, Tish must adjust her perspective on the realities of her existence while visiting Fonny regularly, trying to shore up his spirit even as prison takes its toll. As the weeks turn to months, Tish reaffirms their hopes and resilience, relying on family and inner strength.
(Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress. Also nominated for: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Musical Score)
Sir Wayne and his dragon are BACK and this time they're out to
rescue a princess held captive by a Big Bad Beast. But WHO exactly
will save her? Sir Wayne: who can climb every wall - no moat is too
deep, no tower too tall. Or Dragon: so muscly and lean - he can fly
and fart flames, he's a fighting machine! If ONLY there was a way
to get the best of both... This bestselling series is as funny as
it is farty, for fans of The Dinosaur Who Pooped series, and I Need
a New Bum! Look out for more fart-tastic fun here: The Dragon with
the Blazing Bottom The Knight with the Blazing Bottom
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Viking Quest (DVD)
Jenny Boyd, Nate Fallows, Oliver Walker, Ben Cross, Harry Lister Smith, …
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Harry Lister Smith stars in this made-for-TV action adventure. On a
remote island in ancient Norway, young Viking Erick (Lister Smith)
volunteers to join a band of his fellow Norse warriors on a
perilous voyage to save the captured princess Tasya (Jenny Boyd).
Fighting together with rival clans, Erick must find and save Tasya
from her captors before she is sacrificed to the legendary Midgard
serpent.
The first in a fabulously funny series about a dragon who has lost
his flame - but may just find fire elsewhere . . . Perfect for fans
of The DInosaur That Pooped series. Sir Wayne's dragon has lost his
flame. Are his teeth TOO clean? Is his tongue TOO pink? Perhaps his
diet is to blame. Not to worry - Sir Wayne has a meal plan of EPIC
proportions, including a big lump of lava, one burning bush, some
sparklers and fireworks - the ones that go 'WHOOOOSH'. Oh, and one
VERY mouldy old piece of cheese - almost as green as the snot from
a sneeze . . . What could possibly go wrong?! A hilariously
anarchic picture book, with a truly explosive ending! From the
hugely exciting new picture book talent, Beach. Look out for The
Knight with the Blazing Bottom coming in June 2022!
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Vampire Nation (DVD)
Ben Lambert, Heida Reed, Neil Jackson, Andrew Lee Potts, Claudia Bassols, …
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Andrew-Lee Potts and Heida Reed star in this horror directed by
Todor Chapkanov. In Bucharest, Romania, the human population is
rapidly declining as vampires have taken over and now walk freely
among the humans. After the invention of a synthetic blood
substitute, vampires of Bucharest have been free to live their
lives without bothering the non-blood-loving folk, but not everyone
is happy with the situation...
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Struthers Revisited (Paperback)
Patricia Ringos Beach; As told to The Struthers Historical Society
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Ocean Beach (Paperback)
Ocean Beach Historical Society
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R550
R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
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Ocean Beach, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, is known
throughout the city, county, and beyond as a unique and quirky
place with the feel of a small town, despite being a stone's throw
from the center of a major metropolis. Founded in 1887 in a coastal
area known for its beautiful cliffs and rock formations, Ocean
Beach went through growing pains in the early 1900s before
establishing itself as a family-oriented, self-contained beach
community by the mid-1930s. Full of mom-and-pop stores and very
walkable, Ocean Beach is a favorite destination for thousands of
tourists and San Diegans each year.
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Jacksonville Beach (Paperback)
Maggie Fitzroy, Taryn Rodriguez-Boette, Beaches Museum & History Park
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As a northeast Florida seaside resort, Jacksonville Beach began as
the dream of some businessmen in nearby Jacksonville in the 1880s.
From the beginning, it was a place people came to have fun. The
earliest visitors arrived by ferry and train and even by plane,
landing on the beach. The first narrow-gauge railroad ran from
Jacksonville to what is now the foot of Beach Boulevard in the
heart of town, originally named Ruby and then Pablo Beach. In the
1920s, when Florida was experiencing a land boom, some local
businessmen pushed to change the name to Jacksonville Beach to
attract more tourists, investors, and full-time residents. For many
decades, Jacksonville Beach was known as "the world's finest
beach." People came to enjoy its boardwalk and roller coasters, as
well as the ability to drive on the beach, dance on the pier, swim,
fish, and later surf. From the beginning, they took pictures of
their grand adventures, which can be seen in the pages of this
book.
This is a story set in the huge slum clearance scheme in Nottingham
(The Meadows) in the 1970s. Three very unlikely squatters: John
Brown, a banker and Freddy Baldwin, a renowned musician, who both
had wife troubles, although very different from each other. Then
the most remarkable of them all: Annie, a child who had cared for
her father, during his terminal illness (cancer) and who was then
considered too young to be living alone in her own home. Afraid to
be evicted, possibly into care, she appealed to her own sister, who
had then turned her out, to face an unforgiving world, where rape
and motherhood awaited. It is a story of deceit, unrequited love
and, then, as the story evolves, just maybe a brighter future for
them all.
In 1895, five Cleveland businessmen opened Euclid Beach Park.
Located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, on the east side of
Cleveland, this parcel of land would become a magical place that
was more than just an amusement park--it was an institution of the
community. However, in 1900, "the Beach" faced financial collapse
under the original owners. After being rescued by the Humphrey
family, Euclid Beach began its ascendancy in the 1901 season.
During its 74 years of operation, particularly the "Humphrey
years," Euclid Beach Park offered a vast array of major rides and
attractions and also utilized industry innovations in ride design,
construction, and park management. Few amusement parks have
garnered the affection, memories, and respect that surround the
wondrous spot called Euclid Beach Park.
Sculpted from the swamp, saw grass, and sand of Florida scrubland,
Palm Beach Gardens emerged as a pristine embodiment of the dream of
eccentric--but brilliant--billionaire John D. MacArthur, who
appealed to the Florida Legislature in 1959 for the creation of
this new city. A larger-than-life character who relocated an
80-year-old, 76-ton banyan tree several miles down roads and across
railroad tracks to mark the entrance to his city, MacArthur later
fully financed the Palm Beach Gardens interchange on Florida's
Turnpike to promote growth in the western part of the city. Palm
Beach Gardens, with 30 percent of its 4,000 acres devoted to green
space, was ecologically sound before the environmental movement
began. With the RCA Corporation and nearby Pratt & Whitney
providing employment in the early years, schools and churches
nourishing families, and a strong strain of volunteerism among
residents, by 1970 Palm Beach Gardens was the fastest-growing
municipality in the nation. Although "Mr. Mac" did not play golf
nor particularly like the game, he encouraged its development in
the "Gardens" because of its positive influence on real estate
sales and tourism. Indeed, he invited the Professional Golfers'
Association (PGA) to make its home there and declared Palm Beach
Gardens the "Golf Capital of the World"--today, there are 17 golf
courses in the city.
The second book in the fabulously funny - and hugely farty - A Very
Fiery Fairy Tale series. Perfect for fans of The Dinosaur that
Pooped. Sir Wayne and Dragon are back! And on yet another adventure
to get Dragon's flame round the right way... Luckily Wayne knows
JUST what to do BUT! Is doing everything in reverse ALL day long
really a good idea? And when the start to dress as each other,
swapping EVERYTHING round, what on earth might happen?! Our story
begins with a knight on the town, Sir Wayne seemed happy, but
Dragon was down. "It's just so unfair," he said to his friend.
"Each time I breathe fire it comes out the wrong end!" A
hilariously anarchic picture book, with a truly explosive ending!
From the hugely exciting new picture book talent, Beach. Look out
for The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom - out now!
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Long Beach (Paperback)
Roberta Fiore, Carole Shahda Geraci, Dave Roochvarg for the Long Beach Historical and Preservation Society
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In 1906, Sen. William H. Reynolds purchased an abandoned barrier
island along the south shore of Long Island and vowed to turn it
into a great city. What is now Long Beach, the "City by the Sea,"
soon drew visitors who came for its summer resorts, boardwalk,
dance pavilions, casino, and luxury hotels. Two world wars,
Prohibition, and easy railroad access turned summer residences into
year-long homes for thousands eager to live by the seaside and
raise families in what has been known as "America's Healthiest
City." The images of Long Beach reflect the diversity of the city's
architecture, culture, religions, and unique neighborhoods.
Photographs show the storied inhabitants and bungalows of the West
End, water-lined homes of the canals, the 2.1-mile boardwalk, and
long white sand beach.
This is the remarkable and unlikely story of how a bakery came to
be built in a small Derbyshire village. Of the two orphaned
traumatized children living in no more that an improvised wind
brake (a cott.) on the edge of the great forest of Sherwood, and
the common lands that stretched for miles to the north and east,
who schemed, firstly just to provide enough food to survive. Many
didn't in the harsh economic climate, of the cruel, pre-Victorian
times in which they lived. Of childbirth, that could be a death
sentence, and medical advancement's that came gradually, and
through unlikely ways. It is the story of trickery and
superstition, bordering on witchcraft, and the remarkable
advancement through the industrial age. Of how illness, or injury,
blighted the lives of all, and success could be no more than the
ability to stay alive and healthy. Through it all, runs the theme
of the bakery, based on the people who lived, worked and died
there. It is also a history of the area and the age through which
they lived, from the days of the highwaymen, the coming of the
roads, canals, and railways, of the expansion of the church, and
it's often eccentric priests. And of how disease was largely
conquered by the event of clean water. And a population that was
dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age.
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Palm Beach (Paperback)
Richard A. Marconi, Debi Murray, Historical Society of Palm Beach County
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R557
R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
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Palm Beach is known internationally as a winter resort where the
wealthy enjoy life in a tropical paradise. More than 100 years ago,
Palm Beach was far different from its well-kept beaches, estates,
and fabulous Worth Avenue shopping mecca of the 21st century. When
the first permanent settlers arrived, they found the area covered
by thick jungle that had to be tamed before they could carve out a
new life for themselves. The settlers ended up with a paradise, and
when Henry Flagler decided to build a grand hotel in Palm Beach, he
planted the first seed for the creation of a modern winter retreat
for the rich.
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Struthers (Paperback)
Patricia Ringos Beach, Struthers Historical Society
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Struthers is the story of a small town in northeastern Ohio. The
town began with the stumbling start of John Struthers as he chased
a band of marauding Native Americans through the valley. He later
came to settle in what would eventually be Yellow Creek Park. He
lost a son and most of his fortune after the War of 1812. Later
another son, Thomas, would return as a wealthy entrepreneur to
reclaim the family land in his fatheras memory and help develop the
town. The steel industry played a large role in shaping Struthers,
as have Yellow Creek Park and Lake Hamilton by offering its
hardworking residents places of beauty to relax and enjoy. The
historic images in this book capture moments in everyday life in
Struthers, from its incorporation to present day. This book is for
longtime residents, newcomers, and passersby alike so they may
treasure and remember Struthersas history for years to come.
Settled along 47 miles of beautiful Atlantic coastline, Palm Beach
County has long been a mecca for sport fishing enthusiasts. Graced
with a mild climate and bounded with waters nourished by the warm
Gulf Stream current, Palm Beachas coastal waters host a rich
reserve of marine life. Featured in this captivating retrospective
is a history of the sport fishing industry and tales of legendary
captains, devoted weekend anglers, and wealthy sportsmen. Bringing
to life the sailfish tournaments, fish fries, beauty pageants, and
parades of a bygone era, this work is a tribute to the hardworking
men and women who built this seaside settlement into a haven for
sport fishermen. Follow the evolution of fine fishing boats and
learn about the advancements in marine conservation while enjoying
the natural beauty of this tropical oasis. Showcased within the
book are over 200 vintage images collected from the local libraryas
historical archive, as well as rare photographs from over 30 local
sources, including the West Palm Beach Fishing Club.
Chronicling Indians and aviators, stock cars and sand traps,
"Florida's First Coast" is a delightful collection of vintage
images and local lore, sure to enchant newcomers and residents
alike. A well-loved local, retired U.S. Navy Captain Jack Pate
decided to share the story of the First Coast Beaches after falling
in love with the area himself. Using the extensive collections of
the Beaches Area Historical Society, Captain Jack introduces the
history of the people who settled "the Beaches" area and their
love-hate relationship with the two bodies of water that define it:
the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean.
West Palm Beach was established in 1894, two decades after pioneers
first arrived in the wilderness at Lake Worth. In 1893, Henry M.
Flagler, Standard Oil magnate and Florida railroad mogul, finalized
plans to extend his Florida East Coast Railroad south in order to
turn Palm Beach into a winter playground for the rich. He designed
West Palm Beach as the mainland commercial and residential support
for his new resort. From its humble beginnings, it has become Palm
Beach County's largest city and the seat of government. The city
has suffered fires, hurricanes, boom times, and hard times, always
emerging triumphantly. This installment of West Palm Beach's
fascinating story shares its unique settlement and growth through
the end of World War II.
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