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Castles in the sky [videorecording] / by Fraser, Laura,1976-actor.; Hayman, David,1950-actor.; Izzard, Eddie,actor.; Jennings, Alex,actor.; Kershaw, Ian,screenwriter.; MacKinnon, Gillies,television director.; Rhind-Tutt, Julian,1968-actor.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.,publisher.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;
Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Alex Jennings, David Hayman, Julian Rhind-Tutt.A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973; Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940; Engineers; Made-for-TV movies.; Radar; World War, 1939-1945;
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The defector : a novel / by Hadfield, Chris,1959-author.;
"Israel, October 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below ... and promptly disappears. NASA Flight Controller and former top US test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the ground--and is quickly pulled into a dizzying, high-stakes game of spies, lies and a possible high-level defection that plays out across three continents. The prize is beyond value: the secrets of the Soviets' mythical "Foxbat" MiG-25, the fastest, highest-flying fighter plane in the world and the key to Cold War air supremacy. But every defection is double-edged with risk, and Kaz needs to tread a careful line between trust and suspicion. Ultimately, he must invite the fox into the henhouse--bringing the defector into the heart of the United States' most secret test site--and hope that, with skill and cunning, the game plays out his way."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Air pilots, Military; Defectors; Israel-Arab War, 1973;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Mayfair bookshop : a novel of Nancy Mitford and the pursuit of happiness / by Knight, Eliza,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford's seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers a new life. Present Day: When book curator Lucy St. Clair lands a gig working at Heywood Hill she can't get on the plane fast enough. Not only can she start the healing process from the loss of her mother, it's a dream come true to set foot in the legendary store. Doubly exciting: she brings with her a first edition of Nancy's work, one with a somewhat mysterious inscription from the author. Soon, she discovers her life and Nancy's are intertwined, and it all comes back to the little London bookshop--a place that changes the lives of two women from different eras in the most surprising ways."--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973; G. Heywood Hill, Ltd.; Bookstores; Self-realization in women; Women; Women sales personnel; World War, 1939-1945;
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The lord of the rings : The return of the king [videorecording (DVD)] / by Osborne, Barrie; Walsh, Fran,1959; Jackson, Peter,1961; Boyens, Philippa; Wood, Elijah,1981; McKellen, Ia; Tyler, Li; Mortensen, Viggo,1958; Astin, Sea; Blanchett, Cate,1969; Rhys-Davies, Joh; Hill, Bernard,1944; Boyd, Billy,1968; Monaghan, Dominic,1976; Bloom, Orlando,1977; Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Return of the king.Videorecording;
Director of photography, Andrew Lesnie ; editor, Jamie Selkirk ; music, Howard Shore ; costume designers, Ngila Dickson, Richard Taylor ; production designer, Grant Major ; visual effects supervisor, Jim Rygiel.Elijah Wood, Ian Mckellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble.Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation.Winner of 11 Academy Awards including best picture, best director, 200
Subjects: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.; Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character); Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Adventure film; Feature film; Video recordings for the hearing impaire;
© c2004., New Line Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Alliance Atlantis,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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The girls in the picture : a novel / by Benjamin, Melanie,1962-author.;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979; Marion, Frances, 1888-1973; Motion picture actors and actresses; Women screenwriters; Female friendship;
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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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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;
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The Alto Knights [videorecording] / by De Niro, Robert,actor.; Jarvis, Cosmo,1989-actor.; Levinson, Barry,film director,film producer.; Messing, Debra,1968-actor.; Pileggi, Nicholas,screenwriter.; Sosnoff, Jason,film producer.; Winkler, Charles,film producer.; Winkler, David,film producer.; Winkler, Irwin,film producer.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher,presenter.;
Music by David Fleming; edited by Douglas Crise; director of photography Dante Spinoti.Robert De Niro, Cosmo Jarvis, Debra Messing, Kathrine Narducci, Wallace Langham, Michael Rispoli, Matt Servitto.Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of Italian Americans who run two separate mafia families in the mid-twentieth century. Genovese attempted to murder Costello in 1957, although Costello retired from the mob.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence and pervasive language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Gangster films.; Historical films.; Costello, Frank, 1891-1973; Genovese, Vito, 1897-1969; Italian American families; Italian American men; Attempted assassination; Organized crime; Gangsters; Mafia; Mafiosi;
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The Hobbit. [videorecording] / by Armitage, Richard,1971-; Blanchett, Cate,1969-; Cunningham, Carolynne.; Freeman, Martin,1971-; Jackson, Peter,1961-; McKellen, Ian.; Nesbitt, James,1965-; Serkis, Andy.; Stott, Ken,1955-; Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Hobbit.Videorecording.; Turner, Aidan,1983-; Walsh, Fran,1959-; Weaving, Hugo,1960-; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.; New Line Cinema Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm); WingNut Films (Firm);
Director of photography, Andrew Lesnie ; edited by Jabez Olssen ; music by Howard Shore.Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner.A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on an "unexpected journey" to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug. Along the way they face many dangers; Bilbo meets Gollum and takes possession of the One Ring.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.; Action and adventure films.; Adventure and adventurers; Baggins, Bilbo (Fictitious character); Dwarfs; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Hobbits (Fictitious characters); Middle Earth (Imaginary place);
© c2013., Warner Home Video,
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Twilight [videorecording (DVD)] / by Burke, Billy.; Facinelli, Peter,1973-; Gigandet, Cam,1982-; Godfrey, Wyck.; Greene, Ashley.; Hardwicke, Catherine.; Kendrick, Anna.; Lautner, Taylor,1992-; Lutz, Kellan.; Meyer, Stephenie,1973-Twilight saga series.Videorecording.; Mooradian, Greg.; Morgan, Mark.; Pattinson, Robert.; Rathbone, Jackson.; Reed, Nikki,1988-; Rosenberg, Melissa.; Rosenfelt, Karen.; Stewart, Kristen,1990-; E1 Films Canada.; Imprint Entertainment (Firm); Maverick Films.; Summit Entertainment.; Temple Hill Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Elliot Davis ; editor, Nancy Richardson ; music, Carter Burwell.Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli, Cam Gigandet, Taylor Lautner, Anna Kendrick.Isabella Swan moves to gloomy Forks, Washington to live with her father. She begins her junior year in high school and becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen. He holds a dark secret which is only known by his family. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for, a true soul mate. But he knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her at risk. Edward tries to warn Bella that she should leave him, but she refuses. A new vampire finds it a challenge to hunt Bella down for her irresistible blood. Now, the game is on and James will not stop until she is killed.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-; Cullen, Edward (Fictitious character); Eleventh grade (Education); Family secrets; Feature films.; Swan, Bella (Fictitious character); Vampires; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2009., Summit Entertainment ; E1 Films Canada,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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