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Monster hunter [videorecording] / by Boneta, Diego,1990-actor.; Good, Meagan,1981-actor.; Helman, Josh,actor.; Jaa, Tony,1976-actor.; Jovovich, Milla,actor.; Perlman, Ron,1950-actor.; T. I.,1980-actor.; Anderson, Paul,1965-film director.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa, T.I., Meagan Good, Diego Boneta, Josh Helman, Ron Perlman.There is another world: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When an unexpected sandstorm transports Captain Artemis and her unit to this new world, the soldiers are shocked to discover that this hostile environment is home to enormous and terrifying monsters immune to their firepower. In their desperate battle for survival, the unit encounters the mysterious Hunter, whose unique skills allow him to stay one-step ahead of the powerful creatures.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Monsters; Hunters; Survival; Adventure and adventurers;
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The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War / by Nasaw, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate foreigners, and attempted to repatriate them to Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the USSR. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained over a million displaced persons who either refused to go home or, in the case of many, had no home to which to return. They would spend the next three to five years in displaced persons camps, divided by nationalities, temporary homelands in exile, with their own police forces, churches, schools, newspapers, and medical facilities. The international community couldn't agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of fruitless debate and inaction, an International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from labor shortages. But no nations were willing to accept the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. In 1948, the United States, among the last countries to accept anyone for resettlement, finally passed a Displaced Persons Bill - but as Cold War fears supplanted memories of WWII atrocities, the bill only granted visas to those who were reliably anti-communist, including thousands of former Nazi collaborators, Waffen-SS members, and war criminals, while barring the Jews who were suspected of being Communist sympathizers or agents because they had been recent residents of Soviet-dominated Poland. Only after the passage of the controversial UN resolution for the partition of Palestine and Israel's declaration of independence were the remaining Jewish survivors finally able to leave their displaced persons camps in Germany."--
Subjects: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.; International Refugee Organization.; World War, 1939-1945; Refugees; Refugees; Jewish refugees; Political refugees; Jews; Humanitarianism; World War, 1939-1945;
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Voice for the voiceless : over seven decades of struggle with China for my land and my people / by Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho,Dalai Lama XIV,1935-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People's Republic of China for his entire life. He was sixteen when Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, nineteen when he had his first meeting with Chairman Mao in Beijing, and twenty-five when he was forced to escape to India and became a leader in exile. In the decades since, he has faced Communist China's leaders ... Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping ... in his efforts to protect Tibet and its people, with their distinct language, culture, religion, history, and environment. Now, almost seventy-five years after China's invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibet's unresolved struggle for freedom and the hardship his people continue to face in their own homeland. He offers his thoughts on the geopolitics of the region and shares how he personally was able to preserve his own humanity through the profound losses and challenges that threaten the very survival of the Tibetan people. This book captures the Dalai Lama's extraordinary life journey ... discovering what it means to lose your home to a repressive invader and to build a life in exile; dealing with the existential crisis of a nation, its people, and its culture and religion; and envisioning the path forward.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-; Dalai lamas;
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The cherry robbers / by Walker, Sarai,author.;
"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past. But when a hungry journalist starts chasing her story, she's confronted with whom she once was: Iris Chapel. Connecticut, 1950: Iris Chapel is the second youngest of six sisters, all heiresses to a firearms fortune. They've grown up cloistered in a palatial Victorian house, mostly neglected by their distant father and troubled mother, who believes that their house is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons. The girls long to escape, and for most of them, the only way out is marriage. But not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second, leaving the rest to navigate the wreckage, to heart-wrenching consequences. Ultimately, Iris flees the devastation of her family, and so begins the story of Sylvia Wren. But can she outrun the family curse forever?"--
Subjects: Feminist fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Artists; Blessing and cursing; Families; Heiresses; Sisters;
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Louder than bombs [videorecording] / by Trier, Joachim,film director,screenwriter.; Vogt, Eskil,screenwriter.; Byrne, Gabriel,1950-actor.; Eisenberg, Jesse,1983-actor.; Huppert, Isabelle,actor.; Druid, Devin,actor.; Brosnahan, Rachel,actor.; Jerins, Ruby,1998-actor.; Ketch, Megan,actor.; Strathairn, David,actor.; Ryan, Amy,actor.; Orchard Films,presenter.; Motlys (Firm),presenter,production company.; Memento Films,presenter,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Editor, Olivier Bugge Coutte ; composer, Ola Fløttum ; director of photography, Jakob Ihre.Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Devin Druid, Rachel Brosnahan, Ruby Jerins, Megan Ketch, David Strathairn, Amy Ryan.The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Families; Grief; Fathers and sons;
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Tangled [videorecording] / by Gainey, M. C.; Garrett, Brad,1960-; Grimm, Jacob,1785-1863.Rapunzel.Videorecording.; Grimm, Wilhelm,1786-1859.Rapunzel.Videorecording.; Levi, Zachary,1980-; Moore, Mandy,1984-; Murphy, Donna.; Perlman, Ron,1950-; Stein, Delaney Rose.; Tambor, Jeffrey,1944-; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm); Walt Disney Pictures.;
Original score & music, Alan Menken ; lyrics, Glenn Slater ; editor, Tim Mertens ; art director, David Goetz.Voices: Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambor, Ron Perlman, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Mandy Moore, M.C. Gainey, Delaney Rose Stein.When the kingdom's most wanted bandit Flynn Rider hides in a mysterious tower, the last thing he expects to find is Rapunzel, a spirited teen with an unlikely superpower, 70 feet of magical golden hair! Together, the unlikely duo sets off on a fantastic journey filled with surprising heroes, laughter, and suspense.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.; Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859.; Animated films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Hair; Magic; Outlaws; Princesses; Rapunzel (Tale); Video recordings for children.; Witches;
© c2011., Walt Disney Pictures,
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Westworld. [videorecording] / by Barnes, Ben,1981-actor.; Berdal, Ingrid Bolsø,1980-actor.; Collins, Clifton,Jr.,actor.; Harris, Ed,1950-actor.; Hopkins, Anthony,1937-actor.; Marsden, James,1973-actor.; Newton, Thandie,1972-actor.; Thompson, Tessa,1983-actor.; Wood, Evan Rachel,1987-actor.; Wright, Jeffrey,actor.; HBO Films,production company.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth.Originally broadcast on television.Escape is not freedom. Welcome back to Westworld, the Emmy-winning drama series that follows the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. In Season Three, the real gods are coming and they are very angry. Born into a world of pain, Westworld's android hosts were never allowed to go or see one place: the world. But now, at the end of the game, they're here.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Amusement parks; Androids; Artificial intelligence; Human-robot interaction;
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Miss Benson's beetle : a novel / by Joyce, Rachel,author.;
"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave her a book on cryptozoology right before he killed himself. The assistant Margery hires to accompany her, Enid Pretty, in her pink hat and pompom sandals, is not the companion she had in mind. But together they will find themselves drawn into an adventure that exceeds all expectations: a cross-ocean voyage to a remote island covered with dense jungle--the last place two proper British ladies would expect to find themselves. They must risk everything and break all the rules, but at the top of a mountain deep in the South Pacific they will discover their best selves. This is a charming, uplifting story about the power of belief in all its forms; it is an intoxicating adventure that explores what it means to be a woman; and it is a tender exploration of the transformative power of friendship"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Female friendship; Cryptozoology; Women naturalists; Women explorers; Paid companions (Household employees); Beetles; British; Nineteen fifties;
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The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that!. [videorecording] / by Short, Martin,1950-voice actor.; NCircle Entertainment,publisher.;
Martin Short.Follows the adventures of six-year-old best friends, Sally and Nick, as they are whisked off on extraordinary voyages of scientific discovery.G.DVD.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Cat in the Hat (Fictitious character); Science;
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Poms [videorecording] / by Boe, Alisha,1997-actor.; French, Patricia,1954-actor.; Grier, Pam,1949-actor.; Hayes, Zara,film director,screenwriter.; Keaton, Diane,actor.; Maldonado, David,actor.; McGill, Bruce,1950-actor.; Perlman, Rhea,actor.; Somerville, Phyllis,actor.; Sutton, Carol,actor.; Tahan, Charlie,actor.; Weaver, Jacki,1947-actor.; Weston, Celia,1951-actor.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Pam Grier, Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Charlie Tahan, Rhea Perlman, Bruce Mcgill, Alisha Boe, Celia Weston, Patricia French, Phyllis Somerville, David Maldonado, Carol Sutton.It didn't take long for New Yorker Martha (Diane Keaton) to second-guess her decision once she uprooted for a retirement community in the Deep South. Encouraged to come up with an activity to her liking, she hit on the cheerleading ambitions she had to table as a girl--and sets about recruiting an impromptu and improbable pep squad from her bemused fellow residents.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Cheerleaders; Female friendship; Older women; Retirement communities;
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