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I'm glad my mother is alive. In French with English subtitles [1 DVD - 90 min.] / by Rottiers, Vincent.; Cattani, Sophie.; Citti, Christine.;
Director, Claude Miller, Nathan Miller.Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Vincent Rottiers.Thomas is a troubled teenager who was given up for adoption as a toddler and is now obsessed with finding his birth mother. After searching for years, Thomas finally finds his mother single, with a young child, and living in a nearby suburb. Thomas starts a relationship with her which is part courtship and part obsessive and eventually drives him to an act of madness.Not rated in Canada.MWT rating: NR.DVD ; Dolby Digital.1
Subjects: Foreign films; Dramatic films.; Adopted children; Mothers and sons; Family relationships; Teenagers; Traumatic psychosis;
© c2012., Strand Releasing,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dance of courage / by Copeland, Misty.; Fiadzigbey, Setor.;
Misty and her bunhead crew are back! And this time, they're excited to learn the ballet Don Quixote--a wondrous tale about a brave knight searching for his Dulcinea, his one true love. Misty's best friend, Cat, loves this ballet most of all. She thinks Don Quixote's quest to find love is romantic, but she also knows the story's real hero is Kitri, the daughter of an innkeeper, who boldly defies her father to marry for love instead of money. The class is spellbound as Cat tells them the story, and their teacher agrees Don Quixote is the perfect next ballet for their class to perform. The bunheads get right to work learning the ballet. Misty hopes to land the role of Cupid, and she knows the role of the strong-willed Kitri could only be played by Cat. But when Cat is injured and unable to perform, she weathers her disappointment with courage and a dose of girl power that would make Kitri proud.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Picture books.; Copeland, Misty; Don Quixote (Choreographic work); Ballet dancing; Friendship;
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A Boston (R)Evolution. by McWilliams, Daphne,film director.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by PBS in 2024.A racially complex American city confronts its past and future. When a Black female city councilor, once bussed as a child to hostile neighborhoods, is catapulted to Acting Mayor, she breaks 200 years of white male mayorship. Boston's old-school politics are further challenged when the top candidates in the historic 2021 mayoral race are all non-white women.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Enthnology.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; African Americans.; Businesswomen.; United States.; African American leadership.; Massachusetts.;
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The river is waiting : a novel / by Lamb, Wally,author.;
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother's enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Grief; Married people; Prisoners; Prisons; Reconciliation;
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This woman's work : essays on music / by Gleeson, Sinéad,editor.; Gordon, Kim,editor.;
"THIS WOMAN'S WORK is a collection of essays by 18 female writers, writing about exclusively female experiences in music, co-edited by Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon and Irish author Sinead Gleeson. This book celebrates the instrument makers, the experimentalists, the harmonizers, the avant-garde, the genre-breakers, the pop queens, and all those on the margins who expose the lack of intersectionality in this industry. For a long time, the narrative of music has been male-centered and hyper-masculine. The purpose of the women within it was to orbit these men: swooning to Elvis, screaming en-masse at Beatles gigs, or trying to get backstage to sleep with the rock bad boys. When women gained visibility in the music of the 1960s, they were-again-allocated specific tropes: backing singer, lone woman in the band, Motown trios singing innocuous love songs. In the 1970s, at the time Kate Bush became the first woman (at just 17) to have a number one with song she'd written herself, the women of punk began to make their voices heard. But many didn't like these acts of assertion; the femaleness, the raging against gender stereotypes, the Amazonian loudness of it all. Joan Jett recalls being knocked over on stage by flying bottles; The Slits were chased and threatened after gigs and their singer Ari Up was stabbed twice. Even as late as the 1980s, as hip hop gained prominence, it made room for only a handful of women, while trading in misogynist rhymes, where women could only be hoes, bitches or gold diggers. How were young female rappers of color to participate when they didn't see themselves represented in that culture? Trapped within an entertainment industry relentlessly catering to men, these rappers, and many other budding female musicians across a variety of genres in modern music, were often othered and exoticized-until the moment when they dared to own it. To speak up. To shout louder. Digging into the depths of an industry hard-coded for sexism, THIS WOMAN'S WORK is an ode to the thousands of women in music whose stories we don't know. Pioneers whose achievements are undervalued, often by virtue of their gender, or because someone else (many times, a man) took credit for it. Featuring brand new essays from notable feminist writers like Ottessa Moshfegh, Juliana Huxtable, Maggie Nelson, Rachel Kushner, Leslie Jamison, and more, THIS WOMAN'S WORK reminds us to pay our respects to the women who shattered ceilings and kicked in doors, vastly expanding the spectrum of women's influence in the world of modern music"--
Subjects: Essays.; Misogyny.; Music.; Women musicians.;
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The eagle and the hart : the tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV / by Castor, Helen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richard and declared himself King of England. Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just three months apart, were ten years old when Richard became king of England. They were thirty-two when Henry deposed him and became king in his place. Now, the story behind one of the strangest and most fateful events in English history (and the inspiration behind Shakespeare's most celebrated history plays) is brought to vivid life by the acclaimed author of Blood and Roses, Helen Castor. Richard had birthright on his side, and a profound belief in his own God-given majesty. But beyond that, he lacked all qualities of leadership. A narcissist who did not understand or accept the principles that underpinned his rule, he was neither a warrior defending his kingdom, nor a lawgiver whose justice protected his people. Instead, he declared that "his laws were in his own mouth," and acted accordingly. He sought to define as treason any resistance to his will and recruited a private army loyal to himself rather than the realm-and he intended to destroy those who tried to restrain him. Henry was everything Richard was not: a leader who inspired both loyalty and friendship, a soldier and a chivalric hero, dutiful, responsible, principled. After years of tension and conflict, Richard banished him and seized his vast inheritance. Richard had been crowned a king but he had become a tyrant, and as a tyrant-ruling by arbitrary will rather than established law-he was deposed by his cousin Henry, the only possible candidate to take his place. Henry was welcomed as a liberator, a champion of the people against his predecessor's paranoid despotism. But within months he too was facing rebellion. Men knew that a deposer could in turn be deposed, and the new king found himself buffeted by unrest and by chronic ill-health until he seemed a shadow of his former self, trapped by political uncertainty and troubled by these signs that God might not, after all, endorse his actions. Captivating, immersive, and highly relevant to today's times, The Eagle and the Hart is a story about what happens when a ruler prioritizes power over the interests of his own people. When a ruler demands loyalty to himself as an individual, rather than duty to the established constitution, and when he seeks to reshape reality rather than concede the force of verifiable truths. Above all, it is a story about how a nation was brought to the brink of catastrophe and disintegration-and, in the end, how it was brought back"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400.; Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413.;
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Uncoupling : the ugly truth about divorce and finances / by Van de Geyn, Lisa,author.; Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.;
"Anyone going through separation and divorce can agree that it's an emotional and financial rollercoaster. There is so much to understand, prepare, read, gather, and act on that it's an incredibly draining process. Uncoupling: The Ugly Truth about Divorce and Finances is here to help. This book has everything from the basics to the nitty-gritty when it comes to separation and divorce, with an emphasis, of course, on finances. Along with the stories of people going through their own separations and divorces are the voices of experts covering everything from the specifics of Canada's Divorce Act and parenting agreements to the tax implications of divorce and financial post-divorce to-dos. Divorce rates in Canada are on the rise and Uncoupling will provide much-needed information for those on this difficult journey."--
Subjects: Divorce; Divorced people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gravity [videorecording] / by Bullock, Sandra,actor.; Clooney, George,actor.; Cuarón, Alfonso.; Cuarón, Jonás,screenwriter.; Harris, Ed,voice actor.; Heyman, David,1961-film producer.; Warner Bros. Entertainment.;
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris.Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut and acting space commander Matt Kowalski. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will they survive?Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Astronauts; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Space shuttles; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Women astronauts;
© c2014., Warner Bros. Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The river is waiting [sound recording] : a novel / by Lamb, Wally,author.; Sisto, Jeremy,1974-narrator.; Blackstone Audio, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by Jeremy Sisto.Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother's enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Grief; Married people; Prisoners; Prisons; Reconciliation;
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The office. [videorecording] / by Fischer, Jenna,1974-actor.; Krasinski, John,1979-actor.; Wilson, Rainn,1968-actor.; Carell, Steve,1963-actor.; Robinson, Craig,1971-actor.; Daniels, Greg,creator.; Universal Network Television (Firm),production company.; NBC Studios,broadcaster.; Deedle-Dee Productions,production company.; Reveille Productions,production company.; Universal Media Studios,production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Steve Carell, Craig Robinson.Inappropriate behavior is business as usual, but big surprises are in store! Dwight is now the owner of the building and he may be letting this power go to his head. Andy is courting Erin, who is dating Gabe. Jim and Pam are struggling with being new parents, and a parade of ghosts of girlfriends past haunt Michael, leading to his final days at Dunder Mifflin.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Clerks; Paper products industry; Office politics; Office management; Corporate culture; White collar workers; Paper industry;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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