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- This country is no longer yours : a novel / by Jain Chatlani, Avik,author.;
"In Avik Jain Chatlani's This Country Is No Longer Yours, a chorus of disparate voices comes together to explore how idealists and opportunists betray ordinary people in war-torn Peru. One of our dead writers liked to say, "Peru is a beggar sleeping on a bench made of gold." It's a cute phrase, but it's not really true. There's hardly any gold left, and none of us get much sleep. Based on real events in 1970s-2000s Peru, This Country Is No Longer Yours tells the story of people living through the terrorist campaign of the Maoist Shining Path, while struggling to survive amid economic crisis and state collapse. A student of the revolution's leader is dispatched to Cambodia to learn from the Khmer Rouge, sending him spiralling into a world of unfathomable political violence that both inspires him and will be his undoing. Then, as the terror spreads across Peru, a ruthless security agent of the newly-elected neoconservative government works to squash the growing insurgency now threatening the halls of power, while applying his surveillance training to romantic pursuits--with chilling results. When the war is over, a journalist committed to exposing a brewing nationalist counter-revolution is too preoccupied to help a reader desperately pleading for help outing a sexual predator, who is seeking the presidency. And, in the country that remains, two former guerrillas meet again, one now a teacher stuck in the past, the other living on the margins and still fighting for her future. Depicting a place and time ravaged by terror but alive with new ambitions and enduring love, Jain Chatlani explores the intersection of political breakdown and human endurance, as well as the unbearable choices demanded of those living in a society at war with itself. With incisive and haunting prose, combined with deeply personal insight, Jain Chatlani offers a stinging indictment of the ideologies that brutalize the very people they claim to represent, and relays an urgent warning about the dangers of zealotry, political messianism and acts of violence justified in the name of a cause."--- Subjects: Political fiction.; Novels.; Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group); Journalists; Violence;
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- Scott and Bailey. [videorecording] / by Haywood, Pippa,actor.; Jones, Suranne,1978-actor.; Mooney, Tony,1965-actor.; Sharp, Lesley,1964-actor.; Taylor, Diane.; Wainwright, Sally,1964-; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; BBC Worldwide Ltd,publisher.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Pippa Haywood, Delroy Brown, Tony Monney, David Prosho, Jing Lusi.Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott are back for another season. Upon stepping into the position of acting DI, Rachel senses the growing divide amongst her team. With Janet preoccupied by the arrest of her daughter and unable to advise on the situation, the two are left struggling to refocus on the horrific case at hand, the sinister world of Darknet.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 2.0.- Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television crime shows.; Television programs.; Criminal investigation; Police; Women detectives;
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- An accidental villain : a soldier's tale of war, deceit and exile / by MacIntyre, Linden,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The bestselling, prize-winning novelist and broadcast journalist draws back the curtain on the shadowy life of Sir Hugh Tudor, Winston Churchill's lifelong friend, who, as head of the notorious Black and Tans in Ireland post-WWI, met civil strife and terror with state-sanctioned murder, and changed the course of Irish history. After distinguishing himself on the battlefields of the First World War, Major-General Sir Hugh Tudor could have sought a respectable retirement in England, his duty done. But, in 1920, his old friend Winston Churchill, minster of war in Lloyd George's cabinet, called Tudor to serve in a very different kind of conflict -- one fought in the Irish streets and countryside against an enemy determined to resist British colonial authority to the death. And soon Tudor, newly responsible for policing Ireland, was directing a brutal campaign of terror against rebel "terrorists" in the Irish War of Independence, a conflict he didn't entirely understand but was determined to win at all costs. Which included utilizing police death squads and inflicting brutal reprisals against IRA members and supporters and Sinn Féin politicians. Tudor left few traces of his time in Ireland. No diary or letters that might explain his record as commander of the notorious Black and Tans. Nothing to justify his role in Bloody Sunday, November 21, 1920, when his men infamously slaughtered Irish football fans. Was this retaliation for the IRA's earlier murder of British military officers? Also, why did a man knighted for his efforts in Ireland leave his family and homeland in 1925, moving across the sea to Newfoundland where he remained in quiet obscurity until he died forty years later? Linden MacIntyre -- a storyteller and journalist long fascinated with the toll of violence and war -- has spent four years tracking Tudor through archives, contemporaries' diaries and letters, and the body count of that Irish war, in search of answers. And in An Accidental Villain, he delivers up a consequential and fascinating account of how events can bring a man to the point where he acts against his own training, principles and inclination in the service of a cause -- and ends up on a long journey towards personal oblivion"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Tudor, Hugh, 1871-1965.; Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force.; Soldiers;
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- Mad men. [videorecording] / by Abraham, Phil.; Hamm, Jon,1971-; Moss, Elisabeth,1983-; Slattery, John,1963-; Weiner, Matthew.; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Alliance Films.; Lions Gate Films.; Lions Gate Television (Firm);
Disc 1: Episode 1: A little kiss -- Episode 2: A little kiss part 2 -- Episode 3: Tea leaves.Disc 2: Episode 4: Mystery date -- Episode 5: Signal 30 -- Episode 6: Far away places.Disc 3: Episode 7: At the Codfish Ball -- Episode 8: Lady Lazarus -- Episode 9: Dark shadows.Disc 4: Episode 10: Christmas Waltz -- The other Woman -- Commissions and fees -- The phantom.Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser.Mad Men is back and plunges into the seductive and intriguing world of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning cast continue to mesmerize as they adapt .to changing times, social revolution, and a radical world. Lust is back. Adultery is back. Deception is back.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, 16 x 9 widescreen presentation ; 5.1 Dolby digital.- Subjects: Advertising agencies; Advertising campaigns; Executives; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen sixties; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2012., Lionsgate ; Distributed by Alliance Films,
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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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- Citizens and government in Canada / by Hudak, Heather C.,1975-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Citizens and government -- The British North American Act -- Case study: the Meech Lake Accord -- Citizen profile: Elijah Harper -- Active citizenship: citizens and the Constitution -- Case study: The Charlottetown Accord -- Canadian government: a federal system -- The federal government -- Provincial governments -- Municipal governments -- The courts -- What is your viewpoint? -- Activity: take the citizenship challenge -- Testing what you have learned -- Further research -- Glossary -- Index.Discusses the structure of Canadian government, it's role in the lives of Canadians, and the role citizens play in governing Canada.- Subjects: Juvenile works.; Citizenship; Civics, Canadian; Citoyenneté; Civisme; Citizenship.; Civics, Canadian.; Politics and government;
- © c2009., Weigl,
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- The minority report : and other classic stories / by Dick, Philip K.,author.; Dick, Philip K.Short stories.Selections.; Tiptree, James, Jr.,1915-1987,writer of introduction.;
A collection of eighteen science fiction short stories features "The Minority Report," in which Commissioner John Anderton's clever use of "precogs," people who can identify criminals before they can do any harm, turns against him when they identify him as the next criminal.- Subjects: Science fiction.; Short stories.;
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- An emergency in Ottawa : the story of the Convoy Commission / by Wells, Paul A.(Paul Allen),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."On Feb 14, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made what might be the most controversial decision of his tenure, invoking the Emergencies Act to end a three-week occupation of downtown Ottawa by truckers protesting mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Proclaimed in 1988, the Emergencies Act is designed to give federal officials extraordinary powers in the event of threats to Canada's national security that can't be managed under existing laws. Trudeau used it to make the protest illegal, freeze the accounts and cancel the vehicle insurance of participants, requisition tow trucks to clear protestors from the streets, among other measures. The government defended the first-ever invocation of the act as just and necessary; several premiers and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association called it an assault on democratic rights and civil liberties. As required by the act, Trudeau appointed a commission of inquiry into its use. Last November, justice Paul Rouleau held three weeks of riveting hearings that included testimony by so-called Freedom Convoy organizers, police officials, cabinet ministers, and Trudeau himself. Award-winning author Paul Wells was a regular visitor to the inquiry. Witnesses described layer on layer of dysfunction and acrimony in every organization that converged on Parliament Hill--three levels of government, three police forces, and the protesters themselves. How does a society make crucial decisions when everyone is exhausted, nothing works, and the noise from the truck horns and the shouting is deafening? And how do the protagonists regroup to make their case in the sterile, weird environment of a public inquiry? That's the story inside-a-story of the Emergency in Ottawa."--- Subjects: Canada.; Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada); Freedom Convoy (2022 : Ottawa, Ont.); Emergencies; Emergency management;
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- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit governance / by Rose, Simon,1961-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.This book for young readers describes the three distinct communities of Indigenous Peoples living in Canada, their historical forms of governance, the purpose of the Indian Act passed by the federal government in 1876, and the organizations formed to represent and protect the rights of Indigenous People. It also discusses attempts to raise awareness of past injustices and ongoing challenges.LSC- Subjects: Native peoples; Native peoples;
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- Nurse Jackie. [videorecording] / by Bernstein, Adam,1960-; Best, Eve,1971-; Facinelli, Peter,1973-; Falco, Edie.; Feig, Paul.; Schulze, Paul.; Taylor, Alan,1965-; Wever, Merritt.; Lions Gate Television (Firm); Lionsgate (Firm); Maple Pictures.;
Disc 1. Comfort food -- Twitter -- Candyland -- Apple bong.Disc 2. Caregiver -- Bleeding -- Silly string -- Monkey bits.Disc 3. P.O. box -- Sleeping dogs -- What the day brings -- Years of service.Edie Falco, Eve Best, Peter Facinelli, Paul Schulze, Merritt Weaver.Jackie Peyton is a drug-addicted emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital. For Jackie, every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions. In the second season Jackie struggles to keep up as a functioning addict, a loving wife and mother, and a first-class nurse.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation, 2.0 Dolby Digital, 5.1 Dolby Digital.- Subjects: Chronic pain in women; Dark comedy television programs.; Hospitals; Hospitals; Medical television programs.; Nurses; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2011., Lionsgate ; Distributed by Maple Pictures,
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