David Davis
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Resets more than thirty familiar fables in Texas, with such titles as "The Coyote and the Mustang Grapes" and "The Cowpoke Who Fooled His Friends," and such morals as "An hombre is judged by the bunch he rides with."
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Santa flies in on a book mobile to bring a poor library gifts. In a parody of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore, a harried librarian and her facility get a surprise holiday visit from Santa and his bookmobile.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xvi, 440 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, beginning with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters; the rise of the Cotton Kingdom; the daily life of ordinary slaves; the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade; the sexual exploitation of slaves; the emergence of an African-American culture; and much more. A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
From a mockingbird in a gum tree to four javelinas and eight boots a'scootin', this Western romp features a dozen icons of the Lone Star State. Clever rhymes and repetitions count down the twelve days of Chrismas, as darlin' discovers a new surprise each day.
11) Fandango stew
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Penniless Slim and his grandson Luis ride into the unwelcoming western town of Skinflint, and manage to rustle up a delicious meal for all its citizens out of one lone bean.
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous taxi dispatcher for a New York City taxi company. He tries to maintain order over the varied collection of strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (613 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No longer the new girl in town, Mary has come to think of the newsroom staff as family. But along with the good times and close friendships come the often trying and ultimately hilarious situations every family faces. From Mary explaining the facts of life to Phyllis' daughter to going on a blind date to attending her disastrous high school reunion, Mary has to cope with every situation thrown at her.
18) Catch-22
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (267 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small Colorado town becomes the battleground between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial lifeforms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien facehuggers are released in the crash. Also released is a hybrid Alien/Predator. A man and his son hunting in the forest near the crash site soon become the first victims of the facehuggers. A Predator receives data about the crash on his home...
20) Out to sea
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two men decide to become dance instructors on a cruise ship so they can meet women and con them out of money.