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6) The ride
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Tells the story of a BMX champion who overcomes an abusive childhood through the support and care of his interracial foster family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Colonial Period, Tidewater Westward: Disk 3, of the series, begins in Jamestown where the first permanent English Colony was established in 1607. The bicycle rides then follow the travels of George Washington from his boyhood home in Fredericksburg to Winchester, Virginia. Just north of there, along the Potomac River, the activities at Fort Frederick reveal what life was like in earlier times. The trail then leads back to Williamsburg, near Jamestown....
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Ghana is not a good place to have a disability--parents either poison their disabled children, or leave them to die in the forest--it's called "seeing off." At best, the disabled are expected to be beggars. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born with one deformed leg, which led his father to abandon his mother. Until her early death, she championed her son, enrolling him in school and taking him to various doctors searching for a cure. Her encouragement proved...
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
"The civil rights movement in the United States is usually thought of in terms of its leadership, but often the catalysts for progress were people who fought from within a larger group or performed individual acts of heroism. Some were victims who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. These are some of those stories"--Container.