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- Midnight in Chernobyl : the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster / by Higginbotham, Adam,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand.
- Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.; Nuclear power plants;
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- Dialed in : do your best when it matters most / by Sinclair, Dana,author.;
- "For readers of Atomic Habits and Grit, a top performance psychologist, who has coached elite athletes, surgeons, and business leaders, shares her proven plan to getting the best results when the pressure is on. For more than twenty years, Dr. Dana has worked with the best of the best to improve results, from MLB, NHL, NBA, and NFL teams to IndyCar drivers and Olympic athletes. She helps performers of all stripes shift their focus and deliver their best in the high-pressure moments that define greatness. But her methods also work for students and teachers, business leaders and managers, and anyone motivated to improve. Her approach is simple: figure out what gets in your way, develop actions to address it in the moment, and then stick to the plan. It's not about how you feel, it's about what you do! Now, for the first time, her method to improve performance is available to everyone"--
- Subjects: Achievement motivation.; Positive psychology.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-realization.; Stress management.;
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- Scooby-Doo. [videorecording] : original movie / by Adams, Jeremy(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Atoms, Maxwell,1974-film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Brandt, Spike,film producer.; Krieg, Jim,film producer.; Lewis, Colin Abv,film producer.; Sotta, Christina,film director.; Zwyer, Mel,1977-film director.; Hanna-Barbera Productions,presenter.; Warner Bros. Animation,presenter.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
- Voices: Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci.Scooby-Doo and the gang journey back in time to help King Arthur save his throne from an evil sorceress. While there, Shaggy unwittingly pulls out Excalibur from a nearby stone to cut a block of cheese and now no one is sure who the rightful ruler is! The legendary wizard, Merlin, appears and explains that the throne of Camelot must be determined through Trial By Combat! Our heroes pull out all the stops to try and win the tournament, break the witch's hold on King Arthur, and find a way back to the present in this legendary story of Scooby-Doo in King Arthur's Court!Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Animated films.; Scooby-Doo (Fictitious character); Merlin (Legendary character); Camelot (Legendary place);
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- The conjuring. [videorecording] / by Esposito, Lauren.; Farmiga, Vera.; O'Connor, Frances,1967-; Wilson, Patrick,1973-; Wolfe, Madison.; New Line Cinema Corporation.; Safran Company.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
- Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Madison Wolfe, Frances O'Connor, Lauren Esposito.Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos, Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Warren, Ed; Warren, Lorraine; Demoniac possession; Demonology; Haunted houses; Parapsychology; Poltergeists;
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- Lehrter station / by Downing, David.;
- "Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking him to undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf--assessing the strains between different sections of the German Communist Party--and that Shchepkin's own bosses in Moscow want him to accept the task and pass his findings on to them. He adds that refusal will put Russell's livelihood and life at risk, but that once he has accepted it, he'll find himself even further entangled in the Soviet net. It's a lose-lose situation. Shchepkin admits that his own survival now depends on his ability to utilize Russell. The only way out for the two of them is to make a deal with the Americans. If they can come up with something the Americans want or need badly enough, then perhaps Russell will be forgiven for handing German atomic secrets over to Moscow and Shchepkin might be offered the sort of sanctuary that also safeguards the lives of his wife and daughter in Moscow. Every decision Russell makes now is a dangerous one"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy stories.; Russell, John (Fictitious character); World War, 1939-1945;
- © 2012., Soho Crime,
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- The saboteur / by Gross, Andrew,1952-author.;
- Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis's progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated Norwegians in training in the Scottish Highlands for a mission to disrupt the Nazis' plans before they advance any further. Parachuted onto the most unforgiving terrain in Europe, braving the fiercest of mountain storms, Nordstrum and his team attempt the most daring raid of the war, targeting the heavily-guarded factory built on a shelf of rock thought to be impregnable, a mission even they know they likely will not survive. Months later, Nordstrum is called upon again to do the impossible, opposed by both elite Nazi soldiers and a long-standing enemy who is now a local collaborator--one man against overwhelming odds, with the fate of the war in the balance, but the choice to act means putting the one person he has a chance to love in peril.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; Special operations (Military science);
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- The woman with the cure / by Cullen, Lynn,author.;
- "She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor--often the only woman in the room--she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine--and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure"--
- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Horstmann, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Millicent), 1911-; Poliomyelitis; Virologists;
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- The curse of La Llorona [videorecording] / by Cardellini, Linda,actor.; Amendola, Tony,actor.; Cardellini, Linda,1975-actor.; Chaves, Michael,film director.; Christou, Roman,actor.; Cruz, Raymond,actor.; Daughtry, Mikki,screenwriter.; Iaconis, Tobias,1971-screenwriter.; Kinchen, Jaynee-Lynne,actor.; Ramirez, Marisol,actor.; Rodriguez, Paul,actor.; Thomas, Sean Patrick,actor.; Velasquez, Patricia,actor.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
- Music by Joseph Bishara ; edited by Peter Gvozdas ; director of photography, Michael Burgess.Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Marisol Ramirez, Patricia Vel̋asquez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Paul Rodriguez, Tony Amendola.Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope to survive the deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
- Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Llorona (Legendary character); Demonology; Good and evil; Mother and child; Social workers; Supernatural;
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- The ballad of Laurel Springs / by Beard, Janet,author.;
- "A provocative new novel by the nationally bestelling author of THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers, over more than a century, have been traumatized by acts of violence. Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialized in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation--to be careful of men, and desire--are not just Grace's to learn. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalized in folksongs like "Knoxville Girl" and "Pretty Polly" reminding them always to know their place--or risk the wages of sin. Janet Beard's stirring novel, informed by her love of these haunting ballads, vividly imagines these women, defined by the secrets they keep, the surprises they uncover, and the lurking sense of menace that follows them throughout their lives. With the same rich sense of place as Bloodroot or Serena, The Ballad of Laurel Springs is an unforgettable portrait of women fighting to make a safe place in the world for themselves and the people they love.-
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Family violence; Folk music; Murder; Women;
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- The curse of La Llorona [videorecording] / by Cardellini, Linda,actor.; Amendola, Tony,actor.; Cardellini, Linda,1975-actor.; Chaves, Michael,film director.; Christou, Roman,actor.; Cruz, Raymond,actor.; Daughtry, Mikki,screenwriter.; Iaconis, Tobias,1971-screenwriter.; Kinchen, Jaynee-Lynne,actor.; Ramirez, Marisol,actor.; Rodriguez, Paul,actor.; Thomas, Sean Patrick,actor.; Velasquez, Patricia,actor.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
- Music by Joseph Bishara ; edited by Peter Gvozdas ; director of photography, Michael Burgess.Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Marisol Ramirez, Patricia Vel̋asquez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Paul Rodriguez, Tony Amendola.Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope to survive the deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.4:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos TrueHD 5.1 DVS ; Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Llorona (Legendary character); Demonology; Good and evil; Mother and child; Social workers; Supernatural;
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