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Son of elsewhere : a memoir in pieces / by Abdelmahmoud, Elamin,author.;

"Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario's endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal--for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many threads that weave together into an identity. Arriving in Canada at age 12 from Sudan, Elamin's teenage years were spent trying on new ways of being in the world, new ways of relating to his almost universally white peers. His is a story of yearning to belong in a time and place where expectation and assumptions around race, faith, language, and origin make such belonging extremely difficult, but it's also a story of the surprising and unexpected ways in which connection and acceptance can be found. In this extraordinary debut collection, the process of growing--of trying, failing, and trying again to fit in--is cast against the backdrop of the memory of life in a different time, and different place--a Khartoum being bombed by the United States, a nation seeking to define and understand itself against global powers of infinite reach. Taken together, these essays explore how we pick and choose from our experience and environment to help us in the ongoing project of defining who we are--how, for instance, the example of Mo Salah, the profound grief practices of Islam, the nerdy charm of The O.C.'s Seth Cohen, and the long shadow of colonialism can cohere into a new and powerful whole. With the perfect balance of relatable humor and intellectual ferocity, Son of Elsewhere confronts what we know about ourselves, and most important, what we're still learning."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Abdelmahmoud, Elamin.; Authors, Canadian; Identity (Psychology); Immigrants; Sudanese Canadians;

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Sonny Assu : a selective history / by Assu, Sonny,author.; Hopkins, Candice,1977-author.;

"Stunning retrospective highlighting the playfulness, power, and subversive spirit of Northwest Coast Indigenous artist Sonny Assu. Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-colour works, including several never-before-exhibited pieces. Through analytical essays and personal narratives, Richard Van Camp, Marianne Nicolson, Candice Hopkins, and Ellyn Walker provide brilliant commentary on Assu's practice, its meaning in the context of contemporary art, and its wider significance in the struggle for Indigenous cultural and political autonomy. Exploring themes of Indigenous rights, consumerism, branding, humour, and the ways in which history informs contemporary ideas and identities, Sonny Assu: a selective history is the first major full-scale book to pay tribute to this important, prolific, and vibrant figure in the Canadian contemporary art world"--

Subjects: Assu, Sonny; Indian artists; Indian art; Art, Canadian.;

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Election [videorecording] / by Broderick, Matthew,1962-actor.; Klein, Chris,1979-actor.; Payne, Alexander,1961-screenwriter,film director.; Perrotta, Tom,1961-Election.; Witherspoon, Reese,1976-actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;

Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Mark Harelik.Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter, is determined to be student council president, but teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail her campaign by recruiting another candidate.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Perrotta, Tom, 1961-; High school students; High school teachers; Student government; Teenagers;

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The French lieutenant's woman [videorecording] / by Fowles, John,1926-2005,screenwriter.; Irons, Jeremy,1948-actor.; McKern, Leo,1920-2002,actor.; Pinter, Harold,1930-2008,screenwriter.; Reisz, Karel,film director.; Streep, Meryl,actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),film distributor.;

Music composer, Carl Davis.Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern.John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a story of Victorian sexual and social oppression within the bounds of a 1970s viewpoint. How does one convey this time-frame dichotomy on film? The decision made by director Karel Reisz and Harold Pinter was to frame Fowles' basic plot within a "modern" context of their own making. While we watch as Sarah (Meryl Streep), a 19th-century Englishwoman ruined by an affair with a French lieutenant, enters into another disastrous relationship with principled young Charles (Jeremy Irons), we are constantly made aware that what we're seeing is only a film. This is done by surrounding the story with a modern narrative, focusing on a movie production company which is on location--filming The French Lieutenant's Woman. Meryl Streep doubles in the role of Sara and the American actress who plays her, while Jeremy Irons essays the dual role of Charles and the handsome Briton playing Charles. Likewise, everyone else in the cast is seen as "themselves" and as their French Lieutenant's Woman characters.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.

Subjects: Feature films.; Romance films.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);

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The power of the dog [videorecording] / by Campion, Jane,1954-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-actor.; Dunst, Kirsten,1982-actor.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;

Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-Mcphee.After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.2021 Academy Awards: Directing (Jane Campion) ; 2022 BAFTA Awards: Best film, Best director

Subjects: Feature films.; Romance films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Western films.; Brothers; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and sons; Ranch life;

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A dry white season [videorecording] / by Brando, Marlon,actor.; Mokae, Zakes,actor.; Ntshona, Winston,actor.; Palcy, Euzhan,film director.; Palcy, Euzhan,screenwriter,film director.; Prochnow, Jürgen,actor.; Sarandon, Susan,1946-actor.; Sutherland, Donald,1935-actor.; Suzman, Janet,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Brink, André P.(André Philippus),1935-2015.Droë wit seisoen.English.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,film distributor,presenter.;

Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Winston Ntshona, Marlon Brando, Zakes Mokae, Jurgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon.White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal repression comes crashing down on his gardener, bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015.; Apartheid; Blacks; Justice;

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The age of innocence [videorecording] / by Day-Lewis, Daniel,actor.; Pfeiffer, Michelle,1957-actor.; Ryder, Winona,1971-actor.; Scorsese, Martin,screenwriter,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Wharton, Edith,1862-1937.Age of innocence.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;

Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Gough.Story of the manners and morals of New York society in the late 1800s, focusing on a handsome young lawyer who cannot decide between passion and propriety in his women.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Romance films.; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.; Man-woman relationships;

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A history of my brief body : a memoir / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."A profound meditation on queerness and indigeneity from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Billy-Ray Belcourt begins A History of My Brief Body with a letter to his nohkom, his grandmother. "In the world-to-come," he writes, "everyone is loved by an NDN woman like you whose soft voice reminds us that we can stop running now." What follows is a charting of the distance between the world he was born into and the world he wants--a book as beautiful as it is devastating. Reflecting on his personal history, Belcourt maps his "un-Canadian and otherworldly" desire to love at all costs. We're taken to his birthplace in Joussard, in northern Alberta, where he and his twin brother come to exemplify opposites: hard and soft, masculine and feminine. To his high school graduation, where a hug from his father teaches him how to hold and be held. To a hotel room in Edmonton, where destroying the photographic evidence of his adolescence is an act of self-abolition and of making himself anew. Blending memoir and essay, and with a poet's delight in language, A History of My Brief Body is both a grappling with a legacy of trauma and a record of the joy that flourishes in spite of it."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray; Gay men; Sexual minorities; Indigenous peoples; Poets, Canadian (English);

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The messenger [videorecording (DVD)] / by Bukowski, Bobby.; Buscemi, Steve.; Camon, Alessandro.; Foster, Ben,1980-; Gordon, Mark.; Hall, Alexander.; Harrelson, Woody.; Inglee, Lawrence.; Larson, Nathan.; Malone, Jena,1984-; Miller, Zach.; Morton, Samantha.; Moverman, Oren.; Alliance Films (Firm); Alliance vivafilm (Firm); Oscilloscope Pictures.;

Director of photography, Bobby Bukowski ; editor, Alex Hall ; music, Nathan Larson.Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Steve Buscemi.Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation (2.35:1) ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround and Dolby digital surround ; region 1.

Subjects: Death notification; Feature films.; Iraq War, 2003-; Man-woman relationships; Military films.; Soldiers; Veterans; War widows; Widows;

© c2010., Alliance Films : Distributed by Alliance vivafilm,

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Mr. Mindbomb : eco-hero and Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter : a life in stories / by Hunter, Bobbi,editor.; May, Elizabeth,writer of afterword.; Watson, Paul,1950-writer of introduction.;

A collection of personal essays detailing the life and achievements of a renowned environmental hero and activist. Mr. Mindbomb is a chronology of the significant events of Bob Hunter's life, written chapter by chapter by those who knew him. Where one contributor leaves off, the next picks up, moving the reader through another moment in time, sharing some new insight. This is the real life and legacy of Bob Hunter: Canadian eco-hero, author of 14 books, winner of a Governor General's Award, popular journalist, and recipient of a magical salute of gratitude from a pod of whales. Part adventure thriller, part comedy, part documentary, and part provocation for individuals to stand up for the environment, it's a rare look through the lens and perspective of those touched by Bob's influence. By finding kindred spirits in the voices of each of the contributors, many of whom continue the work, it's a powerful reminder that things don't happen in a vacuum. Fifteen years after Bob's much-too-early passing, Mr. Mindbomb is a reminder that any one person, fuelled by commitment and love, can find others who feel the same, and together they can do extraordinarily heroic deeds for the well-being of all. Contributors include: Cathy Anderson, Aline Barber, David Berner, Jim Deacove, Marlayna Demco, Patricia Demco, Janine Ferretti, Bill Gannon, Douglas Gibson, Bobbi Hunter, Darren Hunter, Donald Hunter, Emily Hunter, Justine Hunter, Will Hunter, Stephen Hurlbut, Teri Innes, Ryan Jackson, Lea Ann Mallett, Marnie Marchant, Rod Marining, Sandy Maskell, Elizabeth May, Joyce Mclean, Peter O'Brian, Chris Pash, Walt Patterson, Ronald Precious, Jim Robb, Jerry Rothwell, Paul Ruzycki, Stephen Scharper, Steve Shallhorn, Todd Southgate, Peter Speck, Paul Spong, Carlie Trueman, Captain Paul Watson, Linda Weinberg, Rex Weyler, Hap Wilson, Dinah Yvonne, and Moses Znaimer.

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Essays.; Hunter, Robert, 1941-2005.; Greenpeace Foundation.; Conservationists; Environmentalists; Journalists;

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