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- Deadly assets / by Griffin, W. E. B.; Butterworth, William E.(William Edmund),author.;
"The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin. In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the "Wyatt Earp of the Main Line"--and then the committee's combative leader is found shot dead point-blank on the front porch of his run-down Philly row house. As chanting protesters fill the streets, the city threatens to erupt. Payne, among many others accused of being complicit in the leader's death, becomes quietly furious. He suspects there's something deeper behind it all, but what? Ordered to stay out of the line of fire, he struggles ahead to do what he does best--his job. He's been investigating the murder of a young family. A reporter, working on an illicit drug series for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mickey O'Hara, has been killed with his wife and child, a note stapled to his chest warning that the drug stories are to stop. Period. While Payne knows that he, like his pal O'Hara, cannot back down, he also knows that they damn sure could be among the next to die"--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Murder; Payne, Matt (Fictitious character); Police;
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- Could it happen here? : Canada in the age of Trump and Brexit / by Adams, Michael,1946 Sept. 29-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting the rest of the world. In vote after shocking vote, Western publics have pushed their anger to the top of their countries' political agendas. The votes have varied in their particulars, but their unifying feature has been rejection of moderation, incrementalism, and the status quo. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Americans elected Donald Trump. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch "elites" are gaining ground across Europe. Amid this roiling international scene, Canada appears placid, at least on its surface. As other societies retrench, the international media have taken notice of Canada's welcome of Syrian refugees, its half-female federal cabinet, its acceptance of climate science and mixed efforts to limit its emissions, the absence of a prominent hard-right ethno-nationalist movement. After a year in power, the centrist federal government continues to enjoy majority approval, suggesting an electorate not as bitterly split as the ones to the south or in Europe. As sceptics point out, however, Brexit and a Trump presidency were unthinkable until they happened. Could it be that Canada is not immune to the same forces of populism, social fracture, and backlash that have afflicted other parts? Our largest and most cosmopolitan city elected Rob Ford. Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch proposes a Canadian test for immigrants and has called the Trump victory "exciting." Anti-tax demonstrators in Alberta chanted "lock her up" in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, an elected leader accused of no wrongdoing, only policy positions the protesters disliked. In Could It Happen Here?, pollster and social values researcher Michael Adams takes Canadians into the examining room to see whether we are at risk of coming down with the malaise affecting other Western democracies. Drawing on major social values surveys of Canadians and Americans in 2016--as well as decades of tracking data in both countries--Adams examines our economy, institutions, and demographics to answer the question: could it happen here?"--- Subjects: Demographic surveys; Populism; Social prediction; Social surveys; Social values;
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- Chicka chicka 1, 2, 3-- and more stories about counting [videorecording (DVD)] / by Martin, Bill,1916-Chicka chicka 1, 2, 3.Videorecording.; Schwartz, David M.How much is a million?Videorecording.; Schwartz, David M.If you made a million.Videorecording.; New Video Group.; Scholastic Inc.; Weston Woods Studios.;
Chicka chicka 1, 2, 3 -- How much is a million? -- If you made a million.Chicka chicka 1, 2, 3. Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.How much is a million? Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.If you made a million. Describes the various forms which money can take, including coins, paper money, and personal checks, and how it can be used to make purchases, pay off loans, or build interest in the bank.G.DVD.- Subjects: Martin, Bill, 1916-; Animated films.; Billion (The number); Children's films.; Counting; Feature films.; Finance, Personal; Million (The number); Money; Trillion (The number); Video recordings for children.;
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- Walmart : diary of an associate / by Meunier, Hugo,author.; translation of:Meunier, Hugo.Walmart.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."In 2012, journalist Hugo Meunier went undercover as a Walmart employee for three months in St. Leonard, Quebec, just north of Montreal. In great detail, Meunier charts the daily life of an impoverished Walmart worker, referring to his shifts at the box store giant as "somewhere between the army and Walt Disney." Each shift began with a daily chant before bowing to customer demands and the constant pressure to sell. Meanwhile Meunier and his fellow workers could not afford to shop anywhere else but Walmart, further indenturing them to the multi-billion-dollar corporation. Beyond his time on the shop floor, Meunier documents the extraordinary efforts that Walmart exerts to block unionization campaigns, including their 2005 decision to close their outlet in Jonquiere, QC, where the United Food and Commercial Workers union had successfully gained certification rights. A decade later he charts the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that exposed the dubious legal ground on which Walmart stood in invoking closure and throwing workers out on the street. In Walmart: Diary of an Associate, Meunier reveals the truths behind Walmart's low prices. It will make you think twice before shopping there."-- Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Wal-Mart (Firm); Discount houses (Retail trade); Retail trade; Retail trade; Working poor;
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- On vous souhaite un joyeux Noël : un chant de Noël canadien / by Becker, Helaine.; Zimmermann, H. Werner.; Montagnier, Isabelle,1965-;
LSC- Subjects: Poésie de Noël.; Christmas poetry.;
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- Ma petite boule d'amour / by Dubé, Jasmine.; Trudel, Jean-Luc,1959-;
Grand album au cours duquel on narre comment un vieil ours mal léché, vivant seul dans sa tanière depuis que sa compagne l'a quitté, répond un jour à l'appel d'un ourson abandonné entendu en rêve. Accompagné par une mouche prénommée Tsé-Tsé qui le guide jusqu'à l'ourson, le gros ours atteint finalement cette vallée asséchée vue en rêve pour y découvrir et adopter le frêle animal qu'il réanime grâce à la Grande Ourse. La constellation lui fournit ainsi par magie le lait de la Voie lactée, les framboises célestes et l'aide d'une bonne étoile filante. Le chant et les caresses du grizzly font le reste et l'ourson entre alors dans la vie de l'ours devenu père d'une petite boule d'amour. --SDM.LSC- Subjects: Ours; Nuit; Rêves; Père et enfant; Adoption; Bears; Night; Dreams; Adoption;
- © c2013., Éditions de la Bagnole,
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