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Author
Language
English
Description
Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem we face, from teenage
...62) Crocodile Dundee
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test--a trip to New York City.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreigngoods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
67) Sea marks
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An Irish fisherman becomes smitten by an English woman he has glimpsed only once at a wedding.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
If you were to meet ten average Americans on the street, nine of them would say they believe in God. So why is the gospel of love dividing America? Dan Merchant put on his bumper-sticker-clad jumpsuit and decided to find the reason. After talking with scores of men and women on streets all across the nation, and also interviewing many well-known activists in today's 'Culture Wars', Dan realized that the public discussion of faith doesn't have to be...
73) When heaven fell
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Will you be complicit, complacent, or courageous? In a culture with an ever-narrowing definition of tolerance, Christians can no longer stay silent about the divide between the Bible's truth and the world's lies. From bestselling author Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer, No Reason to Hide examines the toxic roots behind the alarming symptoms of a nation in spiritual freefall--and why your faith must empower you to engage rather than hide. As you read, you'll be...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of 'hill people' families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.