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- In a rocket made of ice : among the children of Wat Opot / by Gutradt, Gail.;
- "A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman's volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia--a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Children's Community. Begun with just $50 in the pocket of Wayne Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodia's verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDs could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new family--a place that Gutradt calls "a workshop for souls." Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the stories of children saved and changed by this very special place, and of one woman's transformation in trying to help them. With wry perceptiveness and stunning humanity and humor, this courageous, surprising, and evocative memoir etches the people of Wat Opot forever on your heart"--Provided by publisher."The story of a woman who volunteers at an orphanage in Cambodia, set up by a Vietnam War vet for children with and/or orphaned by HIV/AIDS"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Children of AIDS patients; HIV-positive children; Orphanages; Orphans; Orphans;
- The elephant keeper : caring for orphaned elephants in Zambia / by Ruurs, Margriet,1952-; Covo, Pedro,1988-;
- Combines an informational picture book for middle-graders iwith three non-fiction sections to tell the storyof an elephant orphanage.LSC
- Subjects: Elephants; Elephants; Endangered species;
- Once / by Gleitzman, Morris.;
- After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Separation (Psychology); World War, 1939-1945; Survival; Orphans; Jews;
- © 2013., Square Fish,
- The time travel twins / by Patterson, James,1947-; Safran, Tad.; Schweizer, Chris.;
- "A twin sister and brother escape their miserable orphanage by traveling back in time to the American Revolution, where they race to uncover the many secrets of their past and fight to protect the future."--
- Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Twins; Siblings; Time travel; Adventure and adventurers;
- Miral [videorecording] / by Abbass, Hiam.; Ben Ammar, Tarek.; Dafoe, Willem.; Decraene, Franȯis-Xavier.; Gautier, Eric,1961-; Jebreal, Rula.; Jebreal, Rula.Strada dei fiori di Miral.Videorecording.; Kilik, Jon.; Pinto, Freida,1984-; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-; Schnabel, Julian,1951-; Siddig, Alexander,1965-; Welfling, Juliette.; Alliance Films.; Canal+ España (Firm); Cine͡cine͡ma (Firm); Eagle Pictures (Firm); Er Productions (Firm); India Take One Productions (Firm); Pathé Productions.; Weinstein Company.;
- Executive producer, François-Xavier Decraene ; cinematography, Eric Gautier ; editing, Juliette Welfling.Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave, Alexander Siddig.After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; PAL, region 2 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.Official selection, Venice Film Festival, 2010
- Subjects: Jebreal, Rula.; Arab-Israeli conflict; Feature films.; Orphanages; Orphans; Palestinian Arabs; Schoolgirls; Terrorists;
- © c2011., Weinstein Company ; Distributed by Alliance Films,
- Annabelle. [videorecording] / by Bateman, Talitha,2001-actor.; Dauberman, Gary,screenwriter.; LaPaglia, Anthony,actor.; Safran, Peter,1965-film producer.; Sandberg, David F,film director.; Sigman, Stephanie,1987-actor.; Wan, James,1977-film producer.; Atomic Monster Productions,production company.; New Line Cinema Corporation,presenter.; Safran Company,production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
- Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Anthony LaPaglia, Mirando Otto, Lulu Wilson, Philippa Coulthard, Kerry O'Malley.Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Demoniac possession; Dollmakers; Dolls; Orphans;
- For private home use only.
- The grace of wild things / by Fawcett, Heather(Heather M.);
- Fleeing from the orphanage where she lives, Grace makes a deal with the witch in the nearby woods--if Grace can learn all the witch's spells, she must make Grace her apprentice--an agreement that leads to an unexpected bond, and an unimaginable sacrifice.Ages 8-12.
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Orphans; Magic; Witches;
- Cold victory : a novel / by Marlantes, Karl,author.;
- "Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly-but secret-cross-country wilderness race. Louise is delighted, but Natalya is worried. Stalin and Beria's secret police rule with unforgiving brutality. If news of the race gets out and Mikhail loses, Natalya knows it would mean his death, her imprisonment, and the loss of her two children. Meanwhile, Louise, who is childless, uses the race as an opportunity to raise money for a local orphanage, naive to the danger it will bring to Natalya and her family. Too late to stop Louise's scheme, a horrified Natalya watches as news of the race spreads across the globe as newspapers and politicians spin it as a symbolic battle: freedom versus communism. Desperate to undo her mistake, Louise must reach Arnie to tell him to throw the race and save Mikhail-but how? The two racers are in a world of their own, unreachable in Finland's arctic wilderness."--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cross-country ski racing; Diplomats' spouses; Military attachés; Orphanages; Racing; Skiers; Skis and skiing; Wilderness areas;
- Anne of Green Gables [videorecording] / by Ballentine, Ella,actor.; Botsford, Sara,1951-actor.; Harrison, John Kent,television director.; Lalonde, Julia,actor.; Sheen, Martin,actor.; Television adaptation of (work) :Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
- Ella Ballentine, Martin Sheen, Sara Botsford, Julia Lalonde, Amelia Byrnes-lewis, Jaime Feggi.A new adaptation of the classic series, the film is set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.G.DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9); stereophonic.
- Subjects: Children's television programs.; Made-for-TV movies.; Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character); Country life; Orphans;
- For private home use only.
- The one and only Ruby / by Applegate, Katherine.; Castelao, Patricia.;
- Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob.Ages 8-12.
- Subjects: Animal fiction.; Elephants; Wildlife refuges; Dogs; Gorilla;
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