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Cadfael. [videorecording] / by Charnock, Mark.; Hardiman, Terrence.; Jacobi, Derek.; Peters, Ellis,1913-Morbid taste for bones.Videorecording.; Stroud, Rick.; Acorn Media (Firm); Carlton Television.;
Director of photography, Tony Miller ; production design, Austin Spriggs ; editor, Andrew McCllied ; composer, Colin Towns.Derek Jacobi, Mark Charnock, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver , Julian Firth.Cadfael, a Benedictine monk at an abbey in Middle Ages Shrewsbury, solves crimes and murders. In this episode the main opponent to the monks' excavation of St. Winifred's remains is found dead. Not even the monks are exempt from suspicion.PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Peters, Ellis, 1913-; Cadfael, Brother (Fictitious character); Detective and mystery television programs.;
© c2000., Acorn Media,
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Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk / by Levy, Buddy,1960-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now mad919e a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery"--
Subjects: Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946.; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962.; Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918); Karluk (Ship); Shipwrecks;
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Wild nights with Emily [videorecording] / by Gelman, Brett,1976-actor.; Seimetz, Amy,actor.; Olnek, Madeleine,film director.; Shannon, Molly,1964-actor.; Ziegler, Susan,actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Molly Shannon, Susan Ziegler, Amy Seimetz, Brett Gelman.In the mid-nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically and enjoying a passionate, romantic relationship with her friend and sister-in-law Susan. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also sees Emily as a convenient cover for her own role in buttoned-up Amherst's most bizarre love triangle.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Dickinson, Susan Huntington, 1830-1913; Women authors; Lesbians; Closeted gays; Female friendship; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House / by Maddow, Rachel,author.; Yarvitz, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later? The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon's second-in-command. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when-at the height of Watergate-three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon's impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. The self-described "counterpuncher" vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a "witch hunt," riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive. In this blockbuster account, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz detail the investigation that exposed Agnew's crimes, the attempts at a cover-up-which involved future president George H. W. Bush-and the backroom bargain that forced Agnew's resignation but also spared him years in federal prison. Based on the award-winning hit podcast, Bag Man expands and deepens the story of Spiro Agnew's scandal and its lasting influence on our politics, our media, and our understanding of what it takes to confront a criminal in the White House."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Political corruption; Vice-Presidents;
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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;
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1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder / by Herman, Arthur,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924; Nineteen seventeen, A.D.; World War, 1914-1918;
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Time trackers-- history. [videorecording (DVD)] / by TVOntario; Visual Education Centre.;
Banting and Best -- Emily Carr -- Harriet Tubman.G.DVD.
Subjects: Banting, Frederick Grant, Sir, 1891-1941; Best, Charles Herbert, 1899-1978; Carr, Emily, 1871-1945; Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913; Television programs for children; Video recordings for children;
© c2005., Visual Education Centre,
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Harriet Tubman [videorecording] : visions of freedom / by London, Nicole,television director,television producer,screenwriter.; Nelson, Stanley,1951-film director,film producer.; Smith, Marcia,screenwriter.; Taylor, Paul,screenwriter.; Woodard, Alfre,1953-narrator.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.;
Narrated by Alfre Woodard.Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is a rich and nuanced portrait of the woman known as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, who repeatedly risked her life and freedom to liberate others from slavery.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.; Abolitionists; African American abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery movements; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; Slaves; Underground Railroad;
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The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports / by Waters, Michael,1997-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of the groundbreaking trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who set the stage for today's culture wars"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; De Bruyn, Willy.; Koubek, Zdenĕk, 1913-1986.; Smętek, Witold, 1910-1983.; Weston, Mark, 1905-; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.; Antisemitism; Intersex athletes; Olympic athletes; Sexism in political culture; Transgender athletes;
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Silent spring revolution : John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the great environmental awakening / by Brinkley, Douglas,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-819) and index.Acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles in vivid detail how the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - and Carson's close partnership with President John F. Kennedy and his administration - launched the modern environmental movement. With Silent Spring Revolution, Brinkley thrillingly caps an arc of work exploring the 20th century histories of the Presidency and ecological awareness in the US, how we moved from the conservation imperatives of Theodore Roosevelt to today's intentional activism is a twisty tale of fits and starts, politics, money, villains, and heroes. Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson (a marine biologist and author), David Brower (director of the Sierra Club), Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott King (an antinuclear activist), Stewart Udall (the secretary of the interior), William O. Douglas (Supreme Court justice), Cesar Chavez (a labor organizer), and other crusaders are profiled with verve and insight. With the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion, this meticulously researched and deftly written book reminds us that a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can save the planet from ruin.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Conservationists; Environmentalism; Environmentalists;
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