David Lawrence
2) Face-off
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"Artie Lieberman tries out for Peabody's lacrosse team. He is excited to make the team! But whe he is bullied by a group of bigger boys, he's not sure he wants to keep playing. Can he stand up to the bullies? Is it even worth it?"--Page [4] of cover.
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When the last of D.H. Lawrence's novels was published in 1928, it was a prototypical class story regarded as notoriously pornographic. It remained on the banned books list until the early 1960's because it concentrated on the bold and passionate adulterous affair between Constance Chatterley and the gamekeeper of the Chatterley estate, Oliver Mellors. Constance had married wealthy Sir Clifford in 1917, and he was wounded in the war and confined to...
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"A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side...
5) Trapped under the sea: one engineering marvel, five men, and a disaster ten miles into the darkness
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Documents the disastrous 1990s mission during which two members of a five-man diving team were killed while completing construction on a ten-mile tunnel at the end of Boston's Deer Island waste treatment plant.
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"A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the New World. But when the colony's leader, John White, returned...
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Les Blank attended USC School of Cinematic Arts and pursued a Ph.D. in communications. These sudent films, made from 1960-1962, represent his initial interest in making narrative films. Three of the films freature his wife at the time, Gail Blank, and he himself appears in two of the films as a clean shaven young actor.
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Camp nowhere: A group of kids create their own camp with the help of an out-of-work drama teacher.
Baby secret of the lost legend: While on an expedition to Africa, a scientist and her husband discover a newborn brontosaurus. Soon they find themselves under attack by an evil paleozoologist who will stop at nothing to capture and exploit the prehistoric beast.
My father the hero: Andre, a Frenchman divorced from his American wife takes his teenage...
