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Nothing ventured [sound recording] / by Archer, Jeffrey,1940-author.; Blagden, George,1989-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by George Blagden."Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London's Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard's arts and antiquities squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with, even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she's terrified will come to light. While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against suave art collector Miles Faulkner and his brilliant lawyer, Booth Watson QC, who are willing to bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of William. Meanwhile, Miles Faulkner's wife, Christina, befriends William, but whose side is she really on? This new series introduces William Warwick, a family man and a detective who will battle throughout his career against a powerful criminal nemesis. Through twists, triumph and tragedy, this series will show that William Warwick is destined to become one of Jeffrey Archer's most enduring legacies"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Detectives; Art thefts; Art;
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Warfare [videorecording] / by Bennett, Finn,1999-actor.; Centineo, Noah,1996-actor.; Connor, Kit,2004-actor.; Garland, Alex,1970-film director,screenwriter.; Jarvis, Cosmo,1989-actor.; MacDonald, Andrew,1980-film producer.; Melton, Charles,1991-actor.; Mendoza, Ray,film director,screenwriter.; Poulter, Will,actor.; Quinn, Joseph,actor.; Reich, Allon,film producer.; Rice, Peter,film producer.; Woon-A-Tai, D'Pharaoh McKay,2001-actor.; A24 (Firm),film distributor.;
Charles Melton, Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn, Noah Centineo, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett.Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of US forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R; for intense war violence and bloody/grisly images, and language throughout.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.10:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; War films.; Feature films.; United States. Navy. SEALs; Special forces (Military science); Soldiers; Iraq War, 2003-2011; War; Male friendship;
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The widow [sound recording] / by Barton, Fiona,author.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by multiple narrators."Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen ... But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. Now there's no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth--that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Family secrets; Marriage; Widows;
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Coco [videorecording] / by Aldrich, Matthew,screenwriter.; Anderson, Darla K.,film producer.; Anderson-Lopez, Kristen,composer (expression); Arau, Alfonso,voice actor.; Bratt, Benjamin,1963-voice actor.; Camil, Jaime,voice actor.; Frando, Germaine,composer (expression); García Bernal, Gael,1978-voice actor.; Giacchino, Michael,composer (expression); Gonzalez, Anthony,2005-voice actor.; Katz, Jason,screenwriter.; Lopez, Robert,1975-composer (expression); Molina, Adrian,film director,screenwriter,composer (expression); Murguía, Ana Ofelia,voice actor.; Siguenza, Herbert,voice actor.; Ubach, Alanna,voice actor.; Unkrich, Lee,film director,screenwriter.; Victor, Renée,voice actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Pixar (Firm),production company.; Walt Disney Company,presenter.;
Songs, Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez and Germaine Frando & Adrian Molina; original score, Michael Giacchino.Voices of: Gael Garcia Bernal, Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renée Victor, Jaime Camil, Alfonso Arau, Herbert Siguenza, Ana Ofelia Murguía.Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; All Souls' Day; Families; Memory; Family secrets; Musicians; Future life; Ancestral shrines;
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No rules rules : Netflix and the culture of reinvention / by Hastings, Reed,1960-author.; Meyer, Erin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched by hundreds of millions of people in nearly 200 countries. When Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix, he developed a set of counterintuitive and radical management principles, defying all tradition and expectation, which would allow the company to reinvent itself over and over on the way to becoming one of the most loved brands in the world. Rejecting the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate, Reed set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance and hard work is irrelevant. At Netflix, you don't try to please your boss, you practice radical candor instead. At Netflix, employees never need approval, and the company always pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these principles, the implications were unknown and untested, but over just a short period of time they have led to unprecedented flexibility, speed, and boldness. The culture of freedom and responsibility has allowed the company to constantly grow and change as the world, and its members' needs, have also transformed. Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial philosophies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company making its mark on the world"--
Subjects: Netflix (Firm); Netflix (Firm); Corporate culture.;
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Coco [videorecording] / by Aldrich, Matthew,screenwriter.; Anderson, Darla K.,film producer.; Anderson-Lopez, Kristen,composer (expression); Arau, Alfonso,voice actor.; Bratt, Benjamin,1963-voice actor.; Camil, Jaime,voice actor.; Frando, Germaine,composer (expression); García Bernal, Gael,1978-voice actor.; Giacchino, Michael,composer (expression); Gonzalez, Anthony,2005-voice actor.; Katz, Jason,screenwriter.; Lopez, Robert,1975-composer (expression); Molina, Adrian,film director,screenwriter,composer (expression); Murguía, Ana Ofelia,voice actor.; Siguenza, Herbert,voice actor.; Ubach, Alanna,voice actor.; Unkrich, Lee,film director,screenwriter.; Victor, Renée,voice actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Pixar (Firm),production company.; Walt Disney Company,presenter.;
Songs, Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez and Germaine Frando & Adrian Molina; original score, Michael Giacchino.Voices of: Gael Garcia Bernal, Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renée Victor, Jaime Camil, Alfonso Arau, Herbert Siguenza, Ana Ofelia Murguía.Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, 2.0 DVS ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; All Souls' Day; Families; Memory; Family secrets; Musicians; Future life; Ancestral shrines;
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Sensory Overload. by Moore, Kiana,film director.; Vox Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Vox Media in 2025.Nearly 20% of the world is believed to be neurodiverse. And yet, for so many, neurodivergence is still seen as negative, and sensory sensitivities are seen as strange—perceptions based in outdated stereotypes and a fundamental lack of understanding of what these things mean, and the spectrum of how they can manifest. It’s about time to shift those perceptions. The groundbreaking documentary, SENSORY OVERLOAD, aims to do exactly that, helping to rewrite the narrative around neurodivergence and sensory sensitivity by telling the true stories of individuals who prove that these aren’t deficiencies—they’re just differences. The film follows Dr. Jacob Dent, a dentist and father who pivoted his practice to focus on sensory sensitive care after his son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It also features Lola Dada-Olley, a mother adapting to the needs and preferences of her two neurodivergent children. Finally, it tells the story of Burnett Au, a young adult on the autism spectrum who has struggled for years to find a work environment with sensory sensitive conditions and openness to neurodivergence. Filmed over the course of a year, the film weaves the stories of our heroes together with voices from experts and advocates in neurodivergence, healthcare, and policy, like Dr Virginia Spielmann and Jonathan Martinez. It follows each of our heroes as they navigate the ups and downs of their everyday lives in a world that wasn’t designed for neurodiversity. We’ll watch them encounter very real hurdles—prejudice from strangers, workplace difficulties, interpersonal mismatches, and lack of access to medical care—with resolve, resilience, and an eye towards the ways things can and should change. Through their stories, viewers will gain a better understanding of how all brains function. We’ll witness the ways neurodiversity can be a superpower, how it exists on a spectrum that touches so many of us, and how a deeper understanding of neurodiversity can help to create a more inclusive—and wonderfully sensitive—world for everyone. This isn’t just a film about the neurodivergent spectrum, it’s about the spectrum of human experience.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; Psychology.; Medicine.; Mental health.; Documentary films.; Neurology.; Autism spectrum disorders.; Disabilities.; Medical care.; Brain.; People with disabilities.;
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Wild ride : inside Uber's quest for world domination / by Lashinsky, Adam,author.;
"Fortune writer and bestselling author of Inside Apple's expose of Uber, the multi-billion dollar Silicon Valley upstart that has disrupted the transportation industry around the world. Uber is one of the most fascinating and controversial businesses in the world, both beloved for its elegant ride-hailing concept and heady growth and condemned for CEO Travis Kalanick's ruthless pursuit of success at all cost. Despite the company's significance to the on-demand economy and the mobile revolution, and the battle for global dominance that Kalanick is waging against politicians and taxi companies all over the world, the full story behind Uber has never been told. It's a story that start-up founders, executives of traditional businesses, tech-savvy readers, and drivers and riders alike will find riveting. Adam Lashinsky, veteran Fortune writer and author of Inside Apple, traces the story of Uber's rapid growth from its murky origins to its plans for expansion into radically different industries. The company is fighting local competitors and lawmakers for markets around the world; it has already faced riots and protests in cities like Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Mumbai. It fought, and lost, an expensive and grueling battle against rival Didi in China. Uber has also poached entire departments from top research universities in a push to build the first self-driving car and possibly replace the very drivers it's worked so hard to recruit. Uber is in the headlines every day, but so much about its past and its future plans are still unknown to the public. Lashinsky will offer a look inside Uber's vault in this informative, deeply researched book about the ur-disruptor and its visionary and fierce CEO"--
Subjects: Uber (Firm); Ridesharing.;
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Growing cities [videorecording] : a film about urban farming in America / by Altman, Dana.; Monbouquette, Andrew.; Susman, Dan.; Elmwood Motion Picture Company.; First-Run Features (Firm);
From rooftop farmers to backyard beekeepers, Americans are growing food like never before. "Growing Cities" goes coast to coast to tell the inspiring stories of these intrepid urban farmers, activists, and everyday city-dwellers who are challenging the way this country feeds itself. From those growing in backyards to make ends meet to educators teaching kids to eat healthier, viewers find that urban farming is about much more than simply good food.E.DVD.
Subjects: Bee culture; Community gardens; Home economics.; Land use, Urban; Sustainable living.; Urban agriculture; Vermicomposting; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., First Run Features,
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Prisoners of the castle [text (large print)] : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison / by Macintyre, Ben,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors. The myth of Colditz, the most infamous prison in history, has stood unchallenged for 70 years: prisoners of war, mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop. Like all legends, that story contains only part of the truth. In Ben Macintyre's brilliant, cliche-smashing new history, he offers a vision of Colditz previously unimagined, a story of much more than an escape, just as the prison's inmates were far more complicated than the cardboard saints depicted in post-war pop culture. Colditz was a miniature replica of office-class society at the time, only far stranger: a lethal, high stakes boarding school surrounded by barbed wire, initially containing prisoners of all Allied nations, including Canada, but eventually only Britons and Americans, a heavily guarded cage with its own culture, eccentricities, and internal tensions. In intimate and compelling detail, Macintyre explores what happens to people when they are locked up without committing a crime and with no idea when or if they might be liberated. Colditz, then, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, hidden sexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity, and farce. With access to declassified archives, private papers, and never-before-seen photos, the author reveals a remarkable cast of characters, previously hidden from history: Indian doctor Birendranath Mazymdar, the only non-white prisoner, whose ill-treatment, hunger-strike and eventual escape reads like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; Christoper Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture escape aids for POWs, from maps hidden in playing cards to a compass secreted inside a walnut; and many others. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed stunning new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told."--
Subjects: Large type books.; Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany); Prisoner-of-war escapes; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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