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Series
Avatar the last airbender [season 1] volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"After a lapse of 100 years, the Avatar-spiritual master of the elements -has returned. And just in the nick of time. The Four nations (Water, Earth, Fire and Air) have become unbalanced. The Fire Nation wants to rule the world, and its first conquest will be the Northern Water Tribe. It's up to a 12-year-old Airbender named Aang to find a way to stop it. Join Aang, Katara, Sokka, Momo, and Appa as they head north on the adventure of a lifetime."-Container....
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A chronicle of the Cristero War (1926-1929) fought by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government. Focuses on retired General Enrique Gorostieta Velarde, who was reluctant to join in the war, and José Luis Sánchez del Rio, a young boy who witnessed a priest's murder and later is tortured by the government.
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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the divine. Introduces Hinduism's wealth of gods, terms,...
Pub. Date
1958
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930s.
"***...boasts a sharp, colorful DVD transfer, as well as a commentary track focusing on three different aspects: the real Aylward (documentary filmmaker Nick Redman), Bergman (biographer Donald Spoto), and Fox's involvement (film historian Aubrey Solomon--Video Librarian
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Avatar Aang continues his quest to master the four elements. He journeys across the Earth Kingdom in search of an Earthbending mentor; he confronts Princess Azula, daughter of firelord Ozai and sister of Prince Zuko. She will stop at nothing to defeat the Avatar. But Aang finds allies along the way, from the swamps of the South to the Earth King's palace.
Aang, Katara, Sokka, and their new friend Toph are searching for Appa while traveling to Ba...
11) God in america
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Tells the sweeping and dramatic story of religious life in America, examining more than 500 years of American religious history, from the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the 2008 presidential election. Examine this history as it has played out in public life, exploring the complex interaction between religion and democracy in the United States; the origins of the American concept of religious liberty; the dynamics of the ever-evolving American religious...
12) Religulous
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Humorist Maher travels the world interviewing scholars, clergy, and laypeople about God and religion.
16) Jesus camp
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future. Follow these children at summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota as they hone their 'prophetic gifts'.
17) God's not dead 2
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The film follows seven former members of the Amish community as they reflect on their decisions to leave one of the most closed and tightly knit communities in the United States. Estranged from family, the former Amish find themselves struggling to understand their way in modern America.
"From its opening moments of a young woman trying to make a clean break to its deeply moving final images of an unexpected return, Shunned understands just how hard...
19) I believe
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Nine-year-old Brian has a supernatural encounter with God, an experience that sends him on an adventurous quest to 'find out more about what Christians believe.' He faces heavy opposition from the world around him especially from his own father Simon, an atheist TV newscaster. Brian's pure and innocent faith brings about manifestations of God's extraordinary power that quickly become breaking news.
Pub. Date
2005
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"After disappearing for 100 years, Aang has returned to face his destiny as Avatar. And just in the nick of time, as the Four Nations are at war, and the Fire Nation is threatening to take over. Only the Avatar can restore balance, but first, he, along with his friends Katara and Sokka, must begin his journey to master the four elements."