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Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic team / by Hooper, Elise,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 'Fast Girls', Elise Hooper explores the gripping, real life history of the female athletes of the first integrated womens Olympic team, and their journey to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. From the author of 'The Other Alcott'.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Fraser, Louise Stokes, 1913-1978; Robinson, Betty, 1911-1999; Stephens, Helen, 1918-1994; Runners (Sports); Women Olympic athletes; Women runners;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Stalin's Englishman : Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge spy ring / by Lownie, Andrew,author.;
"Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies--Maclean, Philby, Blunt--brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years. Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colorful, tragi-comic wonder"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963.; British Broadcasting Corporation; Great Britain. Foreign Office; Spies; Espionage, Soviet; Intelligence service;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cheated : the Laurier Liberals and the theft of First Nations reserve land / by Waiser, Bill,1953-author.; Hansen, Jennie(Historian),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."You won't find the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves on a map of southeastern Saskatchewan. In 1901, the two Nakoda bands reluctantly surrendered the 70 square miles granted to them under treaty. It's just one of more than two dozen surrenders aggressively pursued by the Laurier Liberal government over a 15-year period. One in five acres was taken from First Nations. This confiscation was justified on the grounds that prairie bands had too much land and that it would be better used by white settlers. In reality, the surrendered land was largely scooped up by Liberal speculators--including three senior civil servants and a Liberal cabinet minister--and flipped for a tidy profit. None were held to account. Cheated is a gripping story of single-minded politicians, uncompromising Indian Affairs officials, grasping government appointees, and well-connected Liberal speculators, set against a backdrop of politics, power, patronage, and profit. The Laurier government's settlement of western Canada can never be looked at the same way again."--
Subjects: Land settlement; First Nations reservations; First Nations; First Nations; First Nations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Atomic spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / by Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988.; Spies; Spies; Spies; Espionage, Soviet; Espionage, Soviet; Physicists; Nuclear weapons;
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Hotel Florida : truth, love, and death in the Spanish Civil War / by Vaill, Amanda.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe--a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"--six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea, chief of Madrid's loyalist foreign press office, and Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised cause--a struggle that places both of them in peril. Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. As Hemingway put it, "You could learn as much at the Hotel Florida in those years as you could anywhere in the world." From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries, official documents, and recovered reels of film, Amanda Vaill has created a narrative of love and reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth: finding it out, telling it, and living it--whatever the cost"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Barea, Arturo, 1897-1957.; Capa, Robert, 1913-1954.; Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998.; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.; Kulcsar, Ilsa, 1902-1973.; Taro, Gerta, 1911-1937.; Hotel Florida (Madrid, Spain); Couples;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Astounding : John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the golden age of science fiction / by Nevala-Lee, Alec,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood), 1910-1971.; Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992.; Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988.; Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986.; Authors, American; Science fiction;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe wife of the first Lieutenant-Governor of the province of Upper Canada, 1792-6 / by Simcoe, Elizabeth,1766-1850.; Robertson, J. Ross (John Ross),1841-1918;
Subjects: Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1766-1850,; Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806.; Ontario, 18th century.; Ontario, 1791-1841.;
© c2001, 1911., Prospero,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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To the ends of the Earth [videorecording] / by Attwood, David(Director); Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-; Dance, Charles.; Delap, Tim.; Evans, Daniel,1973-; Feild, J. J.; Golding, William,1911-1993.Close quarters.Videorecording.; Golding, William,1911-1993.Fire down below.Videorecording.; Golding, William,1911-1993.Rites of passage.Videorecording.; Hamilton, Victoria,1971-; Harris, Jared,1961-; Hobbs, Robert,1972-; Landey, Theo,1975-; McCabe, Richard.; Neill, Sam.; Page, Joanna,1978-; Pettifer, Brian.; Sives, Jamie,1973-; Timeless Media Group (Firm);
Screenplay by Tony Basgallop and Leigh Jackson ; director of photography, Ulf Brantas ; editor, Philip Kloss ; music, Rob Lane.Benedict Cumberbatch, Brian Pettifer, Victoria Hamilton, Daniel Evans, Robert Hobbs, Jared Harris, Theo Landey, Jamie Sives, JJ Feild, Tim Delap, Chris Walker, Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Richard McCabe, Joanna Page."From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.PG.DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Immigrants; Ocean travel; Television mini-series.;
© c2014., Timeless Media Group,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Reagan : the life / by Brands, H. W.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prairie Idyll: 1911-1934 -- The Golden West: 1935-1962 -- A Time for Choosing: 1962-1980 -- Heroic Dreams: 1980-1983 -- A Worthy Adversary: 1984-1986 -- The Frosty Iceland Air: 1986-1988 -- A Ranch in the Sky: 1989-2004.
Subjects: Reagan, Ronald.; Presidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Eloise breaks some eggs / by McNamara, Margaret.; Thompson, Kay,1911-; Lyon, Tammie.; Knight, Hilary.;
Eloise's cooking lesson with Nanny and Cook is disastrous--or would be, if Eloise could not order room service.
Subjects: Eloise (Fictitious character : Thompson); Cookery;
© c2005., Aladdin Paperbacks,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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