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Find your brave / by Stott, Apryl.;
When Coco, a young girl, loses her brave during dress rehearsal for their special dance at the summer festival, she and Bear decide to quit the show, but when Bear gets stuck on a wobbly bridge, Coco bravely rescues him, so perhaps she has enough brave to join Bear onstage after all.Ages 4-8.
Subjects: Animal fiction.; Picture books.; Courage; Bears; Animals; Friendship;
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The looting machine : warlords, oligarchs, corporations, smugglers, and the theft of Africa's wealth / by Burgis, Tom.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A curse of riches -- Futungo, Inc. -- "It is forbidden to piss in the park" -- Incubators of poverty -- Guanxi -- when elephants fight, the grass gets trampled -- A bridge to Beijing -- Finance and cyanide -- God has nothing to do with it -- Black gold -- the new money kings -- Complicity.The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent. In his first book, The Looting Machine , Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage. The oil, copper, diamonds, gold and coltan deposits attract a global network of traders, bankers, corporate extractors and investors who combine with venal political cabals to loot the states' value. And the vagaries of resource-dependent economies could pitch Africa's new middle class back into destitution just as quickly as they climbed out of it. The ground beneath their feet is as precarious as a Congolese mine shaft; their prosperity could spill away like crude from a busted pipeline. This catastrophic social disintegration is not merely a continuation of Africa's past as a colonial victim. The looting now is accelerating as never before. As global demand for Africa's resources rises, a handful of Africans are becoming legitimately rich but the vast majority, like the continent as a whole, is being fleeced. Outsiders tend to think of Africa as a great drain of philanthropy. But look more closely at the resource industry and the relationship between Africa and the rest of the world looks rather different.LSC
Subjects: Mineral industries; Mines and mineral resources;
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Move : the forces uprooting us / by Khanna, Parag,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a continuous feature of human civilization has been mobility. History is replete with seismic global events--pandemics and plagues, wars and genocides. Each time, after a great catastrophe, our innate impulse toward physical security compels us to move. The map of humanity isn't settled--not now, not ever. The filled-with-crises 21st century promises to contain the most dangerous and extensive experiment humanity has ever run on itself: As climates change, pandemics arrive, and economies rise and fall, which places will people leave and where will they resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them? How will the billions alive today, and the billions coming, paint the next map of human geography? Until now, the study of human geography and migration has been like a weather forecast. Move delivers an authoritative look at the "climate" of migration, the deep trends that will shape the grand economic and security scenarios of the future. For readers, it will be a chance to identify their location on humanity's next map"--
Subjects: Climatic changes; Emigration and immigration; Human beings; Human geography.; Migration, Internal;
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Spellbound : modern science, ancient magic, and the hidden potential of the unconscious mind / by Lieberman, Daniel Z.,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Drawing on the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and with deep dives into what we can learn from ancient mystical traditions from alchemy to numerology to meditation, Spellbound weaves together ancient magical traditions, psychological research, and the latest neuroscientific discoveries, in order to bridge the gap between the conscious and unconscious mind"--
Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience.; Consciousness.; Neuropsychology.; Psychology.; Science and magic.; Subconsciousness.; Subliminal perception.;
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Your forest / by Klassen, Jon.;
With a minimal tableau of familiar objects and a gentle rhythm suited for reading aloud, a forest and all its items--a cabin, some rocks, a (nice) forest ghost, a stream, a bridge--are assembled, ending with bedtime as the sun goes down. This is a forest for a young child to have whenever they want to go there.
Subjects: Board books.; Forests and forestry;
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No offense : a novel / by Cabot, Meg,author.;
As Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly Montgomery hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate, in the form of a newborn left in the restroom, has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment."
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Chick lit.; Recipes.; Women librarians; Children's librarians; Single women; Sheriffs; Divorced men; Foundlings; Man-woman relationships;
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Thrilling tales from the tree house / by Brallier, Max.; Holgate, Douglas.;
A collection of stories from The last kids on Earth that bridges the gap between books 6 and 7.LSC
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Teenagers; Monsters; Friendship in adolescence; Survival; Dystopias;
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Liberated love : release codependent patterns and create the love you desire / by Groves, Mark,1979-author.; McBeath, Kylie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."We all desire great love. Yet, there seems to be a lot in the way when it comes to cultivating a relationship we crave. Why is that? It's time for a new template -- one rooted in choice, truth, safety, and respect. To get us there, Mark Groves and Kylie McBeath, champions of positive philosophy, provide us a roadmap, one they walked themselves, to step out of protection mode and into connection mode. Groves and McBeath's work -- through their Create the Love seminars, workbooks, and consultation programs -- have educated a new generation of relationship seekers on the best ways to practice and cultivate love. In Liberated Love, you'll explore your original relationship blueprint and learn how it informs your current relationships (spoiler alert: it's often a pretty direct line), and discover how limitation can be the key to finding freedom and experiencing full, fully-realized love with another person. Equipped with real-life situations and stories, exercises, rituals, and tools that lead to productive self-examination, Groves and McBeath illuminate how to be aware of our most instinctual defenses, survival strategies, and coping mechanisms, how to have conversations about relationships without turning them into "relationship conversations," and how to date in a way that protects your heart as you open it up to new possibilities. In these pages, in a format you'll want to turn to again and again, you'll learn how to begin and maintain relationships that allow true self-expression -- to feel safe and to feel real, involving, sustaining love"--
Subjects: Codependency.; Interpersonal relations.; Love.;
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The secret fiend / by Peacock, Shane.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [iv]) and Internet address.It is 1868, the week that Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of the Empire. Sherlock's beautiful but poor admirer, Beatrice appears at the door late at night. She is terrified, claiming that she and her friend have just been attacked by the Spring Heeled Jack on Westminster Bridge and the fiend has made off with her friend.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Assault and battery;
© 2012, c2010., Tundra Books,
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Iron Man [videorecording] / by Favreau, Jon,film director.; Downey, Robert,Jr.,1965-actor.; Howard, Terrence,actor.; Bridges, Jeff,1949-actor.; Toub, Shaun,actor.; Paltrow, Gwyneth,1972-actor.; Bibb, Leslie,actor.; Arad, Avi,film producer.; Feige, Kevin,film producer.; Fergus, Mark,screenwriter.; Ostby, Hawk,screenwriter.; Marcum, Art,screenwriter.; Holloway, Matthew,screenwriter.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,presenter.; Marvel Entertainment Group,presenter.; Marvel Studios,production company.; Fairview Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Director of photography, Matthew Libatique ; production design by J. Michael Riva; editor, Dan Lebental ; visual effects supervisor, John Nelson ; costume designers, Laura Jean Shannon, Rebecca Bentjen ; music by Ramin Djawadi.Robert Downey, Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Clark Gregg, Bill Smitrovich, Sayed Badreya.A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit made of armor. When he returns home, he decides to use his money, talents, and suit to save the world.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Superhero films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Iron Man (Fictitious character); Heroes; Superheroes; Weapons industry;
For private home use only.
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