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Ontario 1610-1985 : a political and economic history / by White, Randall;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-347) and index.
© 1985., Dundurn Press,
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The orchard : a novel / by Gorcheva-Newberry, Kristina,author.; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.Vishnevyĭ sad.;
"Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya's dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and fantasizing about trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Meanwhile, Anya's parents talk about World War II, the Blockade, and the hardships they have endured. By the time the girls are fifteen, the Soviet Empire is on the verge of collapse. They pair up with classmates Trifonov and Lopatin, and the four friends share secrets, desires, and all the turbulent and carefree pleasures of youth. But the world is changing, and the fleeting time they have together is cut short by a sudden tragedy. Years later, Anya returns to Russia from America, where she has chosen a different kind of life, far from her family and the bittersweet memories of her friends. When she meets Lopatin again, he is a smug businessman who wants to buy her parents' dacha. Anya comes to the stark realization that memory does not fade or disappear; rather, it moves us across time, connecting our past to our future, joys to sorrows. This powerful novel speaks to how we experience and process grief--for a beloved friend, a cherished ideal for a country, or for youth itself"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Grief; Homecoming; Memory; Teenagers;
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Pocket criminal code : incorporating R.S.C. 1985 and subsequent amendments. -- by Canada.;
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Subjects: Criminal law;
© 1988-, Carswell,
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Mutiny : the true events that inspired the Hunt for Red October / by Hagberg, David; Gindin, Boris.; Clancy, Tom,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-380).
Subjects: Storozhevoĭ (Ship); Mutiny;
© 2008., Tom Doherty,
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All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson / by Griffin, Mark,1968-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985.; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain / by Yelchin, Eugene.;
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Subjects: Yelchin, Eugene;
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A train to Moscow : a novel / by Gorokhova, Elena,author.;
"In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei. Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalińђةs brutality. Kolyάђةs revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sashάђةs ambitions converge with Andreζ́ђةs duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Actresses; Diaries; Secrecy;
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Brian Banks [videorecording] / by Atchison, Doug,screenwriter.; Baer, Amy,1966-film producer.; Hodge, Aldis,actor.; Kinnear, Greg,1963-actor.; Levinson, Monica,film producer.; Rawat, Shivani,film producer.; Shadyac, Tom,film director.; Shepherd, Sherri,1967-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinnear, Sherri Shepherd, Tiffany Dupont, Melanie Liburd, Matt Battaglia, Dorian Missick, Xosha Roquemore.The inspirational true story, an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing in the NFL.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Sports films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Banks, Brian, 1985-; False arrest; Football players; Judicial error; Professional athletes;
For private home use only.
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Good citizens need not fear / by Reva, Maria,1989-author.;
"A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva's ingenious novel-in-stories, intertwined narratives that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union. But even as the benighted denizens of 1933 Ivansk Street weather the official neglect of the authorities, they devise ingenious ways to survive. In "Bone Music," an agoraphobic woman survives by selling contraband LPs, mapping the vinyl grooves of illegal Western records into stolen x-ray film. A delusional secret service agent in "Letter of Apology" becomes convinced he's being covertly recruited to guard Lenin's tomb, if only he can convince a contrarian poet to officially apologize for reciting a forbidden joke. Weaving the narratives together is an unforgettable, chameleon-like girl named Zaya: a disfigured orphan in "Little Rabbit," a beauty-pageant crasher in "Miss USSR," and, when she reaches adulthood, a sadist-for-hire to the Eastern bloc's newly minted oligarchs in "Homecoming." Good Citizens Need Not Fear takes us from moments of intense paranoia to surprising tenderness and back again, exploring what it means to be an individual amidst the roiling forces of history. Inspired by her and her family's own experiences in Ukraine, Reva brings the black absurdism of early Shteyngart and the sly interconnectedness of Anthony Marra's The Tsar of Love and Techno to a fictional world that is as clever as it is heartfelt."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Apartment houses;
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Murder on the home front : a true story of morgues, murderers, and mysteries during the London Blitz / by Lefebure, Molly.; Lefebure, Molly.Evidence for the crown.;
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Subjects: Lefebure, Molly.; Simpson, Keith, 1907-1985.; Medical jurisprudence;
© 2014, c1955., Grand Central Pub.,
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