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1) Apocalypto
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
Mayan
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Description
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Set in the Depression, follows the life of a young farm boy who turns from an honest political hopeful to a powerful but corrupt governor. Based on Robert Penn Warren's novel which loosely fictionalized the life of Louisiana's Gov. Huey P. Long.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and...
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