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Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town--and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay--or does it?

Sue Rubin, who is autistic, was diagnosed and treated as mentally retarded until the age of 13, when she began to communicate using a keyboard. She is now a junior in college. This documentary takes the viewer on a jorney into her mind, her daily world, and her life with autism.

"A Midwest family drama series about a talented group of strangers who come together to help Freddy Bland make his first documentary that can raise his awareness. There will be resistance." -- Amazon.com.

"Mackenzie Walker has everything a single girl needs in her California mountain hometown. Family, friends, a thriving business ... and memories of Zan Elliott, whose touch--and betrayal--she's never forgotten. Now, ten years after he left town, Zan returns to manage his late grandfather's estate ... and flip Mac's life upside down. Documentary filmmaking has taken Zan all over the globe, yet nowhere was far enough away to make him forget Mac. Seeing...

In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper’s daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later.

"Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the elephant known as Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the way he kills, and then tenderly buries, his human victims."--

A powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. Having been born and raised in one of the USA's biggest oil-producing regions, Josh Tickell saw firsthand how the industry controls, deceives, and damages the country, its people, and the environment, and after one too many people he know became sick, he knew he just couldn't idly stand by any longer.

Documents the history of slavery in America from colonial times to after the Civil War.

A Midwest family drama series about a talented group of strangers who come together to help Freddy make a documentary.

"A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she's called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings Day special. But private chef tables and spa days come to an abrupt halt when Jorge's telenovela heartthrob...