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Death in a darkening mist / by Whishaw, Iona,1948-author.;
On a snowy day in December 1946, Lane Winslow--a former British intelligence agent who's escaped to the rural Canadian community of King's Cove in pursuit of a tranquil life--is introduced to the local hot springs. While there she overhears nearby patrons speaking Russian. When one of those patrons is found dead in the change room, Lane's linguistic and intelligence experience is of immeasurable value to the local police force in solving the murder. The investigation points to the Soviet Union, where Stalin's purges are eliminating enemies, and the reach of Stalin's agent snakes all the way into a harmless Doukhobor community. Winslow's complicated relationship with the local police inspector, Darling, is intensified by the perils of the case--and by the discovery of her own father's death during the war. The case comes to a frantic and shocking end with a perilous nighttime journey along treacherous snow-covered roads.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Intelligence officers; British; Murder; Wilderness areas;
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Seeking social democracy : seven decades in the struggle for equality / by Broadbent, Ed,1936-author.; Abele, Frances,author.; Sas, Jonathan,author.; Savage, Luke,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent's ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. Ed Broadbent is unique among living political leaders of international stature in offering a fully developed analysis of social democracy and its relevance in the 21st century. His career as a political philosopher, activist, and politician and his conversations with contemporaries such as Willy Brandt, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev inform his analysis of the struggles for social justice in the long 20th century. Having come to the socialist and social democratic traditions by way of academic study, Broadbent tested and tempered his ideas in the great postwar struggles over social rights, gender and racial equality, workers' rights, the containment of capital, and reversing the commodification of private life. The book explores the roots of his egalitarianism and the formation of his social democratic ideas, Broadbent's engaged internationalism and relationship with key historical figures, and his experiences and reflections in practical politics and pursuit of government across several of the most momentous decades in the history of Canada. He was a Member of Parliament for over two decades and was, for most of this period, leader of the New Democratic Party. He remains to this day an important social democratic voice in the public debates of the nation. Part political history, part intellectual biography, part manifesto for social democracy this first-ever full-length treatment of Broadbent's thought will be animated in dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, each similarly immersed in the history of social democratic ideas--the result being a fresh analysis of social democracy, Canadian politics, and a lively contribution to current debates and dilemmas."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Broadbent, Ed, 1936-; Equality.; Socialism.;
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The Iceman [videorecording] / by Bleiberg, Ehud.; Evans, Chris,1981-; Franco, James,1978-; Land, Morgan.; Lerner, Avi,1947-; Liotta, Ray.; Ryder, Winona,1971-; Schwimmer, David,1966-; Shannon, Michael,1974-; Vromen, Ariel.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Director, Ariel Vromen.Winona Ryder, James Franco, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, David Schwimmer.Inspired by actual events, The Iceman follows notorious contract killer Richard Kuklinski from his early days in the mob until his arrest for the murder of more than one hundred men. Appearing to be living the American dream as a devoted husband and father, in reality Kuklinski was a ruthless killer-for-hire. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Kuklinski, Richard; Assassins; Biographical films.; Feature films.;
© c2013., Entertainment One,
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Little Italy [videorecording] / by Aiello, Danny,1933-actor.; Basaraba, Gary,actor.; Christensen, Hayden,1981-actor.; Dhillon, Pauline,film producer.; Ferrara, Adam,1966-actor.; Galluccio, Steve,1960-screenwriter.; Kash, Linda,1967-actor.; Martin, Andrea,1947-actor.; Milano, Alyssa,actor.; Petrie, Donald,film director.; Phung, Andrew,actor.; Roberts, Emma,1991-actor.; Rosato, Cristina,actor.; Seymour, Jane,1951-actor.; Virmani, Ajay,film producer.; Virmani, Vinay,1985-film producer,screenwriter.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),film distributor.; Grindstone Entertainment Group,production company.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),production company.;
Music, Mateo Messina ; costume designer, Joanna Syrokomla ; editor, Michele Conroy ; production designer, Dan Yarhi ; director of photography, Thom Best.Hayden Christensen, Emma Roberts, Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello, Andrea Martin, Jane Seymour, Adam Ferrara, Gary Basaraba, Linda Kash, Andrew Phung, Cristina Rosato.Modern-day "Romeo and Juliet" tale follows Nikki (Emma Roberts) and Leo (Hayden Christensen), childhood friends who reconnect as adults. It doesn't take long before the sparks are flying between them, but Nikki and Leo soon find that their burgeoning relationship faces a major stumbling block--the long-running feud between their families' rival Toronto pizzerias.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Families; Family-owned business enterprises; Friendship; Man-woman relationships; Pizzerias;
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Paper trails : from the backwoods to the front page : a life in stories / by MacGregor, Roy,1948-author.;
"One of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories. From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people--what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since. From his early days in the pages of Maclean's, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page two of the Globe and Mail, MacGregor was one of the country's must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada's farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves--never entirely untethered from the land and its history. When MacGregor was still a young editor at Maclean's, the 21-year-old chief of the Waskaganish (aka Rupert's House) Crees, Billy Diamond, found in Roy a willing listener as the chief was appealing desperately to newsrooms across Ottawa, trying to bring attention to the tainted-water emergency in his community. Where other journalists had shrugged off Diamond's appeals, MacGregor got on a tiny plane into northern Quebec. From there began a long friendship that would one day lead MacGregor to a Winnipeg secret location with Elijah Harper and his advisors, a host of the most influential Indigenous leaders in Canada, as the Manitoba MPP contemplated the Charlottetown Accord and a vote that could shatter what seemed at the time the country's last chance to save Confederation. This was the sort of exclusive access to vital Canadian stories that Roy MacGregor always seemed to secure. And as his ardent fans will discover, the observant small-town boy turned pre-eminent journalist put his rare vantage point to exceptional use. Filled with reminiscences of an age when Canadian newsrooms were populated by outsized characters, outright rogues and passionate practitioners, the unputdownable Paper Trails is a must-read account of a life lived in stories."--
Subjects: Biographies.; MacGregor, Roy, 1948-; MacGregor, Roy, 1948-; Journalists;
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Free birds [videorecording] / by David, Keith.; Fogler, Dan.; Harrelson, Woody.; Meaney, Colm,1953-; Poehler, Amy,1971-; Takei, George,1937-; Wilson, Owen,1968-; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Relativity Media.;
Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Colm Meaney, George Takei, Keith David, Amy Poehler, Dan Fogler.Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history, and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Thanksgiving Day; Thanksgiving cooking; Time travel; Turkeys; Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Relativity Media ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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PAW patrol. [videorecording] / by Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); KaBOOM! Entertainment.; Spin Master PAW Productions, Inc. (firm);
Drew Davis, Devan Cohen, Gage Munroe.It's the pirate pup's life in these six PAW Patrol adventures! Join the pups as they discover a secret pirate cave and emBARK on a treasure hunt! Plus, stop a ghostly pirate ship from sailing away and dive into the bay for more PAWsome water rescues.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation (16x9); region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Animal rescue; Dogs; Ghosts; Halloween; Pirates; Puppies;
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By any other name [text (large print)] : a novel / by Picoult, Jodi,1966-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has never recovered, although she has just completed a work that she thinks is her best yet. It is based on the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England -- and rumored to be the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets -- but whom some scholars suspect may be the real author of a number of his plays. Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, and then her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits it to a festival under a male pseudonym. In 1581, the young orphan Emilia Bassano is being raised in the ways of English aristocracy by the Baron Willoughby and his sister. Her lessons on languages, reading, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling. But like most women of her day, she has no control over her fate, and is ripped from her old life and forced to become a courtesan to Lord Hunsdon, a man knighted by Queen Elizabeth as the Lord Chamberlain in charge of all theater in London. Though she has no other freedoms, and inspired by the work of the most brilliant playwrights of the time, she pseudonymously sets her own pen to paper to tell a story. Told in dual intertwining timelines, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. As Emilia alters the course of her life and therefore the course of the world, she blazes a trail. Centuries later, will Melina face the same terrible fate -- to have her work celebrated, but only at the price of letting another take credit?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Lanyer, Aemilia; Women dramatists; Women;
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Fruitvale Station [videorecording] / by Diaz, Melonie.; Jordan, Michael B.(Michael Bakari),1987-; Murray, Chad Michael,1981-; Neal, Ariana.; Spencer, Octavia.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Weinstein Company.;
Chad Michael Murray, Octavia Spencer, Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Ariana Neal.The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his mother, being a better partner to his girlfriend, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to come easy.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Grant, Oscar, 1986-2009; Biographical films.; Feature films.; Police shootings;
© c2014., Distributed by Entertainment One,
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The orphan girl : a novel / by Palka, Kurt,1941-author.;
"London, 1944-1945. Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father's murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved. Kate's life is drastically interrupted once more when she wakes up one night to the sound of the air raid alarm and the terror whistles of a bomb's stabilizers screaming toward the roof of her house. In the explosion, her mother and her aunt die; Kate survives, but she is injured. Her house is gone as well, and after her time in the hospital, Claire Giroux, a kind doctor and family friend, invites Kate to live with her as she recuperates. This arrangement works well for them until a few months later when Claire's husband comes home from the war. Within days the lives of both women are drastically changed, and events are set in motion, both in England and in Canada, that challenge Kate and Claire to their limits. The Orphan Girl is a moving and powerful story about friendship and courage, and about promises made and kept"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Allied health personnel; Fathers; Female friendship; Women ambulance drivers; World War, 1939-1945;
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