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First in the Dr. Paiboun series- Seventy-two-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, a coroner in Laos, confronts shamans, dreams, conversations with the dead, and an international cover-up, in his attempts to solve a series of murders of Vietnamese soldiers and the wife of a party leader.
Tracy Waterhouse, a retired police detective leading a quiet life, makes a snap decision to relieve habitual offender Kelly Cross of a young child he's been dragging around town. Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge. Meanwhile, detective Jackson Brodie embarks on a different sort of rescue--that of an abused dog.
Having achieved the seemingly unachievable-- becoming a U.S. Memory Champion-- Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.
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In Lemmy, directors Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski explore the amazing life and career of heavy metal pioneer and cultural icon Lemmy Kilmister, the life force behind the enduring influential band Motörhead.
Proper girls from the Victorian era were supposed to be dainty and delicate, not the kind of girls who loved the out-of-doors or created detailed iron work gates! Yet, Juliette Gordon Low didn’t let that stop her, especially when she decides to bring the Scouting movement from Great Britain to girls in her hometown of Savannah, Ga., and throughout the United States. Daisy believed that girls could do anything, and Girl Scouts have been proving that she was right for 100 years.
March 12, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Girl Scouts in the United States.
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