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Poor deer : a novel / by Oshetsky, Claire,author.;
"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of tragedy, Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic--that always end happily. Enter Poor Deer: a strange and formidable creature who winds her way uninvited into Margaret's made-up tales. Poor Deer will not rest until Margaret faces the truth about her past and atones for her role in Agnes's death."--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Children; Guilt; Mothers and daughters; Psychic trauma;
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The equalizer [sound recording] / by Sloan, Michael,1946-; Gurner, Jeff.;
Read by Jeff Gurner."Robert McCall is a former covert operations officer for the CIA who tries to atone for past sins by offering, free of charge, his services as a troubleshooter (often literally), a protector, and an investigator. People in need find him through a newspaper ad: "Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer." Aided by a group of sometimes-mysterious contacts (some of whom date back to his spying days), McCall traverses the streets of New York City, visiting justice upon those who prey upon the weak. In this novel, based on the 1980s television show, and timed to come out shortly before the feature film version starring Denzel Washington, McCall gets pulled into a battle against Russian drug lords and finds himself pitted against his most dangerous foe ever!"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Audiobooks.; Justice, Administration of; Revenge;
© p2014., Macmillan Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Echo of worlds / by Carey, M. R.,1959-author.;
"Two mighty empires are at war - and both will lose, with thousands of planets falling to the extinction event called the Scour. At least that's what the artificial intelligence known as Rupshe believes. But somewhere in the multiverse there exists a force - the Mother Mass - that could end the war in an instant, and Rupshe has assembled a team to find it. Essien Nkanika, a soldier trying desperately to atone for past sins; the cat-woman Moon, a conscienceless killer; the digitally recorded mind of physicist Hadiz Tambuwal; Paz, an idealistic child and the renegade robot spy Dulcimer Coronal. Their mission will take them from the hellish prison world of Tsakom to the poisoned remains of a post-apocalyptic Earth, and finally bring them face to face with the Mother Mass itself. But can they persuade it to end eons of neutrality and help them? And is it too late to make a difference? Because the Pandominion's doomsday machines are about to be unleashed - and not even their builders know how to control them"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Imaginary wars and battles; Quests (Expeditions);
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My brother the killer : a family story / by Sharkey, Alix,author.;
In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journalist reflects on his own journey to come to terms with his brothers terrible crimes - and to find justice for the young girl he killed.
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Sharkey, Stuart.; Murderers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets / by Bilger, Burkhard,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party's brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country's crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Gönner, Karl, 1899-1979.; Bilger, Burkhard; Ex-Nazis; Teachers; World War, 1939-1945;
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Greenwood / by Christie, Michael,1976-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.They come for the trees. It is 2038. As the rest of humanity struggles through the environmental collapse known as the Great Withering, scientist Jake Greenwood is working as an overqualified tour guide on Greenwood Island, a remote oasis of thousand-year-old trees. Jake had thought the island's connection to her family name just a coincidence, until someone from her past reappears with a book that might give her the family history she's long craved. From here, we gradually move backwards in time to the years before the First World War, encountering along the way the men and women who came before Jake: an injured carpenter facing the possibility of his own death, an eco-warrior trying to atone for the sins of her father's rapacious timber empire, a blind tycoon with a secret he will pay a terrible price to protect, and a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant from certain death, only to find himself the subject of a country-wide manhunt. At the very centre of the book is a tragedy that will bind the fates of two boys together, setting in motion events whose reverberations we see unfold over generations, as the novel moves forward into the future once more.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Historical fiction.; Epic fiction.; Islands; Environmental disasters;
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Pillow talk [graphic novel] / by Cooke, Stephanie,1986-author.; Vargas, Mel Valentine,illustrator.;
When college freshman Grace Mendes reluctantly attends her first pillow fight match, she falls in love with the surprisingly gritty sport. Despite her usually shy, introverted, and reserved nature, Grace decides to try out for the Pillow Fight Federation (PFF), a locally famous league of fighters with larger-than-life personas like Pain Eyre, Miss Fortune, and champion Kat Atonic. They may battle with pillows, but there is nothing soft about these fighters. The first and only rule to pillow fighting is that the pillow needs to be the first point of contact; after that, everything else goes. Grace struggles with deep-seated body image issues, so she is especially shocked when she makes the competitive league and is welcomed into the fold of close knit, confident fighters. As her first official fight performing as newly crafted alter-ego/ring persona Cinderhella looms on the horizon, the real battle taking place is between Grace and her growing insecurities. What if people laugh or make fun of her? Why did she think she could pillow fight in the first place when she doesn't look like your "typical" athlete? Turns out, no one is laughing when Cinderhella dominates her first match in the ring. And as her alter-ego rises through the ranks of the PFF, gaining traction and online fame (and online trolls), can Grace use the spotlight to become an icon for not just others, but most importantly, for herself?
Subjects: Graphic novels.; College students; Women athletes; Body image; Body image; Self-confidence; Sports for women; Female friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tulsa. [videorecording] : a centennial exploration of the 1921 race massacre / by Brown, DeNeen L.,commentator,television producer.; Christman, David,composer.; Johnson, Doug(Film composer),composer.; Lee, Robert Y.(Robert Ying-Fu),composer.; Martin, Michel(Michel McQueen),narrator.; Silvers, Jonathan,television director,television producer.; Stover, Eric,television producer.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.; Saybrook Productions, Ltd.,production company.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.),production company.; WNET Group,production company.;
Composers, David Christman, Robert Y. Lee, Doug Johnson.Narrator, Michel Martin ; commentator, Deneen Brown.One hundred years after the destruction of the Black-owned Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, residents and descendants examine the history of the 1921 tragedy and its aftermath. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, the film explores vital issues of atonement, reconciliation and reparation.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; African Americans; Racism; Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921.;
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The night manager / by Le Carré, John,1931-author.;
In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade. Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly by an inherited patriotism, Jonathan, a veteran of clandestine operations in South Armagh, allows himself to be recruited as a British secret agent with a mission to expose the murderer of the woman he himself betrayed.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction);
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Mune [videorecording] : guardian of the moon / by Ballard, Joshua J.,voice actor.; Heboyan, Alexandre,film director.; Izïa,1990-voice actor.; Philippon, Benoît,screenwriter,film director.; Sy, Omar,1978-voice actor.; Soumache, Aton,film producer.; Vonarb, Alexis,film producer.; Rassam, Dimitri,film producer.; Provost, Nicole,voice actor.; On Animation Studios,production company.; Orange Studio (Firm),production company.; Kinology (Firm),production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
French voices: Omar Sy, Izïa Higelin, Michaël Grégorio, Shafik Ahmad, Benoît Allemane ; English voices: Joshua J. Ballard, Nicole Provost, Rob Lowe, Christian Slater, Patton Oswalt.In an imaginary world, three creatures help to restore the stolen sun and the moon in their rightful places in the universe.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Animated films.; Children's films.; Heroes; Imaginary places; Moon; Sun;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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