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The mercy [videorecording] / by Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; Gatiss, Mark,actor.; Marsh, James,1963-film director.; Thewlis, David,1963-actor.; Weisz, Rachel,1970-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Tomalin, Nicholas.Strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst.; Screen Media Films (Firm),publisher.;
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Buchan.Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor competes in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Crowhurst, Donald, 1932-1969; Teignmouth Electron (Ketch); Sunday Times Golden Globe Race (1968-1969); Single-handed sailing; Voyages around the world;
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Winterkill : a novel / by Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk.;
Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.Ages 8 through 12.Middle grade.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Farmers; Famines; Survival; Friendship;
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Flowers : J.E.H. MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven / by Murray, Joan;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: MacDonald, J. E. H. (James Edward Hervey), 1873-1932; Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917; Group of Seven (Group of artists); Flowers in art;
© c2002., McArthur & Co.,
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Erotic vagrancy : everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor / by Lewis, Roger,1960-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Thirteen years in the writing, Erotic Vagrancy doesn't only surpass every other biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton yet to appear, this rich, vital and passionately articulated book, which is as extravagant and wayward as its two subjects, is also about celebrity, creativity, being flawed, being brilliant, sexuality, the intermingling of a low and a highbrow existence, pride, insecurity, attraction and repulsion, and devilry. We see Taylor the child actress exchanging dogs and horses for husbands. We see Burton emerging from the mists and brimstone of Wales to be the greatest theatrical animal of his generation. The pair come together in Rome during the making of Cleopatra, which gives Lewis the opportunity for a major farcical set-piece. We then enter a world of jewels and private jets, vodka, yachts and furs--the splendid vulgarity of the Sixties, where the narrative of Taylor and Burton becomes a Pop Art story. Then, inevitably, it all goes wrong, with alcoholism, violence, recrimination and divorce (twice)--with Burton, whom Lewis depicts as a Faustus figure, damned by fame, dead at fifty-eight."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011.; Burton, Richard, 1925-1984.; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine / by Applebaum, Anne,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization -- in effect a second Russian revolution -- which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people perished between 1931 and 1933 in the U.S.S.R. In Red famine, Anne Applebaum reveals for the first time that three million of them died not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy, but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: that Stalin set out to exterminate a vast swath of the Ukrainian population and replace them with more cooperative, Russian-speaking peasants. A peaceful Ukraine would provide the Soviets with a safe buffer between itself and Europe, and would be a bread basket region to feed Soviet cities and factory workers. When the province rebelled against collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures. Starving, people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil"--
Subjects: Collective farms; Collectivization of agriculture; Famines; Genocide; Mass murder;
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Vice [videorecording] / by Adams, Amy,actor.; Bale, Christian,1974-actor.; Carell, Steve,1963-actor.; McKay, Adam,1968-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Pill, Alison,1985-actor.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Rockwell, Sam,actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),publisher.;
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill.The story of Dick Cheney, a Washington insider and bureaucrat, who George W. Bush picked to run with him in the 2000 election, representing the Republican Party. After winning the election, Dick Cheney acquired substantial power and began to reshape the United States, along with the world, in ways that are still noticeable today.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language and some violent images.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Historical films.; Political films.; Biographical films.; Feature films.; Cheney, Richard B.; Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-; Vice-Presidents; Vice-Presidential candidates; Political campaigns;
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The Kennedys in the world : how Jack, Bobby, and Ted remade America's empire / by Haas, Lawrence J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America's federation for more than six decades after World War II"--
Subjects: Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.; Kennedy family.;
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, photographing America, 1929-1947 / by Cartier-Bresson, Henri,1908-2004.; Evans, Walker,1903-1975.; Sire, Agnès.; Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004; Evans, Walker, 1903-1975; Documentary photography; Photography, Artistic;
© 2009., Thames & Hudson,
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The year of magical thinking / by Didion, Joan.;
Subjects: Didion, Joan.; Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003; Novelists, American; Novelists, American; Journalists; Mothers and daughters; Widows; Loss (Psychology); Grief.;
© c2006., Random House,
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The ghosts of Eden Park : the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked jazz-age America / by Abbott, Karen,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers," writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new Pontiacs for the women. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States. Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down. Willebrandt's bosses at the U.S. Attorney's office hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintain with Remus. Eager to prove them wrong, she dispatches her best investigator, Franklin Dodge, to look into his empire. It's a decision with deadly consequences: with Remus behind bars, Franklin and Imogene begin an affair and plot to ruin him, sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government-- and that can only end in murder. Combining deep historical research with novelistic flair, THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK is the unforgettable, stranger-than-fiction story of a rags-to-riches entrepreneur and a long-forgotten heroine, of the excesses and absurdities of the Jazz Age, and of the infinite human capacity to deceive"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Remus, George, 1878-1952; Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 1889-1963.; Trials (Murder); Uxoricide; Alcohol trafficking;
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