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202) Johnny Appleseed
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This is an introduction to the life of John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, who is famed for his distribution of apple seeds and trees across America.
203) August: Osage County
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"The darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them"--Container.
204) Black Hawk's war
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This book discusses Black Hawk's War, from the Battle of Stillman's Run to Black Hawk being released to the custody of his Sauk enemy, Keokuk.
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"This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. It is a book that does for America's inner frontier what...
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Almanzo Wilder comes to Walnut Grove with his sister Eliza-Jane, the new schoolteacher. The Ingalls decide to adopt Albert. Nels Oleson is reunited with his estranged sister. A faith healer convinces the citizens of Walnut Grove to trust him. Caroline's father discovers a talent as a storyteller while grieving after the loss of his wife. Laura and Mary are held captive by escaped convicts until Charles disarms the criminals. Albert and a friend accidentally...
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Provides a never-before-seen perspective on one-room schools in the Upper Midwest. This visually stunning film features a unique country school designed by Frank Lloyd Wright along with dozens of more traditional structures of brick, stone, or wood - in all stages of restoration or decay - in picturesque rural areas of Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska. Shot in the midst of all four seasons, Country School features...
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"The Harper family refutes the old expression "there's no such thing as bad publicity" when Bubba gets a video camera and his heavily edited footage winds up on Raytown public access cable TV. Mama could use a personality coach, which might have helped in her campaign against neighbor Iola Boylen for president of the Church Ladies League. But despite her crankiness, Thelma Harper does the right thing after the bank ATM spits out $20 bills like a slot...
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"Season 4 offers a rare glimpse of Mama Harper as a young housewife with daughter Eunice and son Ving in a flashback sequence instigated by Bubba's late-night beer-drinking antics. After plenty of fumin' and fightin', Bubba and his grandma finally see eye to eye. Elsewhere, Bubba goes from prom dud to prom stud with two dates to choose from. Mama can't resist getting involved, just as she still can't resist a bargain. When Thelma gets hooked on K-RAY...
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Story of a young pioneer family's struggle to build a new life for themselves on the American Frontier of the 1870s. Celebrates the resilence of the human spirit as the Ingalls face the challenges of frontier life, a hard, sometimes joyous, sometimes tearful existence. Adapted from the stories written by one of the Ingalls children and based on their pioneer life.
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"This is a graphic biography of the green dreamer of the American Frontier, the legendary John Chapman, from Brown University scholar Paul Buhle (Red Rosa) and award-winning cartoonist Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln). John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, made himself the stuff of legend by spreading the seeds of apple trees from Wisconsin to Indiana. Along with that, he offered the seeds of nonviolence and vegetarianism,...
218) The good life
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In the Midwest, where football is the most important thing next to family, Jason doesn't fit in because he doesn't care about the game, and instead withdraws into the world of classic movies.
219) Represent
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"In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on the status quo in campaigns that promise to reshape local politics on their own terms. Myya Jones, Bryn Bird and Julie Cho each share the singular goal of improving their community through public service. Myya attempts to spark a youth movement and unseat the incumbent mayor of Detroit; Bryn, a farmer and working mother in rural Granville, OH, runs for township trustee on a male-dominated...
220) The good life
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In the Midwest, where football is the most important thing next to family, Jason doesn't fit in because he doesn't care about the game, and instead withdraws into the world of classic movies.