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- The golden compass / by Pullman, Philip,1946-;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.- Subjects: Banned book sanctuary.; Fantasy; Missing persons; Alternate worlds; Kidnapping;
- © c1996., Alfred A. Knopf,
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- Absolute beginner's guide to project management / by Horine, Gregory,author.;
"Succeed as a project manager, even if you've never run a project before! This book is the fastest way to master every project management task, from upfront budgeting and scheduling through execution, managing teams through closing projects, and learning from experience. This book will show you exactly how to get the job done, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. Project management has never, ever been this simple! Who knew how simple project management could be? This is today's best beginner's guide to modern project management simple, practical instructions for succeeding with every task you'll need to perform! Here's a small sample of what you'll learn: Master the key skills and qualities every project manager needs Lead projects, don't just manage them Avoid 15 most common mistakes new project managers make Learn from troubled, successful, and recovered projects Set the stage for success by effectively defining your project Build a usable project plan and an accurate work breakdown structure (WBS) Create budgets and schedules that help you manage risk Use powerful control and reporting techniques, including earned value management Smoothly manage project changes, issues, risks, deliverables, and quality Manage project communications and stakeholder expectations Organize and lead high-performance project teams Manage cross-functional, cross-cultural, and virtual projects Work successfully with vendors and Project Management Offices Make the most of Microsoft Project and new web-based alternatives Get started with agile and critical chain project management Gain key insights that will accelerate your learning curve Know how to respond to real-life situations, not just what they teach you in school"--- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The best of me [videorecording] / by Bracey, Luke,1989-; Bridges, Sean.; Goodall, Caroline,1959-; Liberato, Liana,1995-; Marsden, James,1973-; McRaney, Gerald,actor.; Peters, Clarke.; Sparks, Nicholas.Best of me.Videorecording.; Tenney, Jon,1961-; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
James Marsden, Luke Bracey, Liana Liberato, Gerald McRaney, Caroline Goodall, Clarke Peters, Jon Tenney, Sean Bridges.The story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after twenty years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen, 2.40:1 presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Feature films.; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Love; Man-woman relationships; Reunions;
- © 2015., Distributed by Entertainment One,
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- Mania A Novel [electronic resource] : by Shriver, Lionel.aut; cloudLibrary;
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author. In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word (“stupid”) and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah’s Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she’s also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children’s spirits in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes. With echoes of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, told in Lionel Shriver’s inimitable and iconoclastic voice, Mania is a sharp, acerbic, and ruthlessly funny book about the road to a delusional, self-destructive egalitarianism that our society is already on.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Dystopian; Literary; Family Life;
- © 2024., HarperCollins,
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- Central intelligence [videorecording] / by Hart, Kevin,1979-actor.; Johnson, Dwayne,1972-actor.; Ryan, Amy,actor.; Thurber, Rawson Marshall,1975-screenwriter,film director.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Camera, Barry Peterson ; production design, Stephen J. Lineweaver ; editor, Michael L. Sale.Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan, Danielle Nicolet, Aaron Paul.After he reuinites with an old school pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A (Unrated edition).MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Action and adventure films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Accountants; Criminals; Male friendship; Spies;
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- Central intelligence [videorecording] / by Hart, Kevin,1979-actor.; Johnson, Dwayne,1972-actor.; Ryan, Amy,actor.; Thurber, Rawson Marshall,1975-screenwriter,film director.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Camera, Barry Peterson ; production design, Stephen J. Lineweaver ; editor, Michael L. Sale.Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan, Danielle Nicolet, Aaron Paul.After he reuinites with an old school pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A (Unrated edition).Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Action and adventure films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Accountants; Criminals; Male friendship; Spies;
- For private home use only.
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- Differently wired : raising an exceptional child in a conventional world / by Reber, Deborah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are--these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, and other neurodifferences. Their challenges are many. But for the parents who love them, the challenges are just as hard--struggling to find the right school, the right therapist, the right parenting group while feeling isolated and harboring endless internal doubts about what's normal, what's not, and how to handle it all. But now there's hope. Written by Deborah Reber, a bestselling author and mother in the midst of an eye-opening journey with her son who is twice exceptional (he has ADHD, Asperger's, and is highly gifted), Differently Wired is a how-to, a manifesto, a book of wise advice, and the best kind of been-there, done-that companion. On the one hand it's a book of saying NO, and how it's time to say no to trying to fit your round-peg kid into society's square holes, no to educational and social systems that don't respect your child, no to the anxiety and fear that keep parents stuck. And then it's a book of YES. By offering 18 paradigm shifts--what she calls "tilts"-- Reber shows how to change everything. How to "Get Out of Isolation and Connect." "Stop Fighting Who Your Child Is and Lean In." "Let Go of What Others Think." "Create a World Where Your Child Can Feel Secure." "Find Your People (and Ditch the Rest)." "Help Your Kids Embrace Self-Discovery." And through these alternative ways of being, discover how to stay open, pay attention, and become an exceptional parent to your exceptional child"--- Subjects: Child rearing; Children with disabilities; Exceptional children;
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- Policing Black lives : state violence in Canada from slavery to the present / by Maynard, Robyn,1987-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Policing Black Bodies is a timely and much-needed exposure of historical and contemporary practices of state-sanctioned violence against Black lives in Canada. This groundbreaking work dispels many prevailing myths that cast Canada as a land of benevolence and racial equality, and uncovers long-standing state practices that have restricted Black freedom. A first of its kind, Policing Black Bodies creates a framework that makes legible how anti-Blackness has influenced the construction of Canada's carceral landscape, including the development and application of numerous criminal law enforcement and border regulation practices. The book traces the historical and contemporary mobilization of anti-Blackness spanning from slavery, 19th and 20th century segregation practices, and the application of early drug and prostitution laws through to the modern era. Maynard makes visible the ongoing legacy of a demonized and devalued Blackness that is manifest today as racial profiling by police, immigration agents and social services, the over-representation of Black communities in jails and prisons, anti-Black immigration detention and deportation practices, the over-representation of Black youth in state care, the school-to-prison pipeline and gross economic inequality. Following the dictums of the Black Lives Matter movement, Policing Black Bodies adopts an intersectional lens that explores the realities of those whose lives and experiences have historically been marginalized, stigmatized, and made invisible. In addressing how state practices have impacted Black lives, the book brings from margin to centre an analysis of gender, class, sexuality, (dis)ability, citizenship and criminalization. Beyond exploring systemic racial injustice, Policing Black Bodies pushes the limits of the Black radical imagination: it delves into liberatory Black futures and urges the necessity of transformative alternatives."--- Subjects: Blacks; Blacks; Race discrimination;
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- River east, river west : a novel / by Rey Lescure, Aube,author.;
"Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva's hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution run by an exclusive community of expats and the ever-wilder thrills of a city where foreigners can ostensibly act as they please. 1985: In the seaside city of Qingdao, Lu Fang is a young, married man and a lowly clerk in a shipping yard. Though he once dreamed of a bright future, he is one of many casualties in his country's harsh political reforms. So when China opens its doors to the first wave of foreigners in decades, Lu Fang's world is split wide open after he meets an American woman who makes him confront difficult questions about his current status in life, and how much will ever be enough. In a stunning reversal of the east-to-west immigrant narrative and set against China's political history and economic rise, River East, River West is an intimate family drama and a sharp social novel. Alternating between Alva and Lu Fang's points of view, this is a profoundly moving exploration of race and class, cultural identity and belonging, and the often-false promise of the American Dream."--- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Americans; Racially mixed teenagers;
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- All that's left unsaid : a novel / by Lien, Tracey,author.;
A deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's shocking murder, determined to discover what happened--a dramatic exploration of the intricate bonds and obligations of friendship, family, and community. Just let him go. These are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends. That night, Denny--optimistic, guileless, brilliant Denny--is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, an indifferent police force, and the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history. Returning home to Cabramatta for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by Denny's case: a dozen people were at Lucky 8 restaurant when Denny died, but each of the bystanders claim to have seen nothing. Desperately hoping that understanding what happened might ease her suffocating guilt, Ky sets aside her grief and determines to track down the witnesses herself. With each encounter, she peels back another layer of the place that shaped her and Denny, exposing the seeds of violence that were planted well before that fateful celebration dinner: by colonialism, by the war in Vietnam, and by the choices they've all made to survive. Alternating between Ky's voice and the perspectives of the witnesses, Tracey Lien's extraordinary debut is at once heart-pounding and heart-rending as it probes the intricate bonds of friendship, family, and community through an unforgettable cast of characters, all connected by a devastating crime. Combining evocative family drama and gripping suspense, All That's Left Unsaid is a profound and moving page turner, perfect for readers of Liz Moore, Brit Bennett, and Celeste Ng.- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Homecoming; Murder; Vietnamese;
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