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Wenjack / by Boyden, Joseph,1966-author.; Richardson, C. S.,designer.; Monkman, Kent,illustrator.;
"An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a type of comfort on his difficult journey back to the place he was so brutally removed from." Written by Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author Joseph Boyden and beautifully illustrated by acclaimed artist Ken Monkman, Wenjack is a powerful and poignant look into the world of a residential school runaway trying to find his way home.--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Indians of North America; Native peoples;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Grandpa was an emperor [videorecording] / by Marks, Constance,film producer,film director.; Freestyle Digital Media,publisher.;
Yeshi Kassa.The great-granddaughter of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie investigates what happened to her father after the 1974 coup that landed most of her family in prison.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Personal narratives.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975; Kassa, Yeshi.; Coups d'état; Fathers and daughters.; Royal houses;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tesla [videorecording] / by Hewson, Eve,actor.; Hawke, Ethan,1970-actor.; Gross, Hannah,actor.; Almereyda, Michael,film director.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Eve Hewson, Ethan Hawke, Hannah Gross.A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby TrueHD 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943; Electrical engineers; Inventors;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The brothers of Auschwitz / by Adler, Malka,1946-author.; Canin, Noel,translator.; translation of:Adler, Malka,1946-Its'o u-Bernard.English.;
"Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz. Six decades later, from the safety of their living rooms at home in Israel, the brothers finally break their silence to a friend who will never let their stories be forgotten."--Cover flap.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Brothers; Jewish families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sell us the rope : a novel / by May, Stephen,1964-author.;
"May 1907. Young Stalin - poet, bank-robber, spy - is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. As he builds his powerbase in the party, Stalin manipulates alliances with Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg under the eyes of the Czar's secret police. Meanwhile he is drawn to the fiery Finnish activist Elli Vuokko and risks everything in a relationship as complicated as it is dangerous."--Publisher.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Communism; Interpersonal relations; Social change;
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42 : The Jackie Robinson story [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Ford, Harrison; Merriman, Ryan; Black, Lucas; Linklater, Hamish; Boseman, Chadwick; Beharie, Nicole; Meloni, Christopher; Holland, Andre;
Director, Brian Helgeland.Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Andre Holland, Ryan Merriman, Christopher Meloni, Harrison Ford, Hamish Linklater, Lucas Black.History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African-American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.CHVRS rating: PG.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Biographical.; Drama.;
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Tesla [videorecording] / by Dunford, James E,film director.; Grubin, David,television producer,screenwriter.; Murphy, Michael,1938-narrator.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Narrator: Michael Murphy.Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla2s vision that paved the way for today's wireless world.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.; Electrical engineers; Inventors;
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Margaret Atwood [videorecording] : a word after a word after a word is power / by Atwood, Margaret,1939-on-screen participant.; Raymont, Peter,film director.; White Pine Pictures,publisher.;
Margaret Atwood.The film explores Atwood's 'backstory,' her early days in the Canadian wilderness and as a poet. Atwood's novels are explored, including her latest, The Testaments, the highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Personal stories are shared by friends, family, and, of course, directly by Atwood herself.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital monophonic.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Authors, Canadian; Women authors;
For private home use only.
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Deadly day in Tombstone / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Enticed by the richest poker tournament the West has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless card players is gathering at Tombstone, Arizona. Lawman John Slaughter already has his hands full when a local Romeo takes off with a rancher's daughter and draws the ire of her father and a blood-thirsty posse. Back in town, a murder shatters the poker tournament, with a beautiful Englishwoman as the prime suspect. John Horton Slaughter has been to hell and back as a soldier, rancher and Texas Ranger, and this just might be his toughest day yet. To set things straight he'll need every bullet he can muster, aim straight, and shoot to kill. And kill again...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Slaughter, John H. (John Horton), 1841-1922;
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I, Mona Lisa / by Solomons, Natasha,author.;
In Leonardo da Vinci's studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power, money, intrigue, the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo is sought after and stolen. Over the centuries, few could hear her voice, but now she is ready to tell her own story, in her own words - a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak. Weaving through the years, she takes us from the dazzling world of Florentine studios to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles, and into the Twentieth Century.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.; Del Giocondo, Lisa, 1479-; Art thefts; Portraits; Women in art;
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