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1) Timbuktu
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
349 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sm̀i reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvr̀, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The international award-winning, bestselling phenomenon, now available in English for the first time. Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people. But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen: an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum's collection,...
5) The herd boy
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
While doing a good job of caring for his grandfather's sheep and goat on the grasslands of South Africa, young Malusi dreams of everything from owning his own dog to becoming president one day.
6) The cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither Andersen nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
7) The Sacketts
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (193 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louis L'Amour's epic western saga of brothers who blazed a name across the untamed post-Civil War New Mexico frontier.
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