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- Incorrigible [videorecording] : a film about Velma Demerson / by Lee, Karin,1960-film director.; McIntyre Media,film distributor.;
- Gemini award winning filmmaker Karin Lee tells the heartbreaking and poignant story of Velma Demerson who was arrested under the Ontario Female Refuges Act (1897-1964) and incarcerated for falling in love with a Chinese man in 1938 at the age of 18 in Toronto, Canada. Pregnant and without legal counsel, Velma was sentenced to one year in prison where she was tortured by the prison's eugenicist doctor who attempted to abort her child. 60 years later Velma attempted to sue the Ontario provincial government for wrongful incarceration. She and paralegal activist Harry Kopyto worked to solve the puzzle of how to sue the government for a case which was past the limitation period. Velma was finally vindicated and won her case in 2003 at the age of 83. This is the story of an ordinary young woman who did nothing wrong, except to fall in love with a man of a different race. It is a story of how institutional racism ruined the lives of two young people in love and destroyed the possibility of their having a happy and healthy family. Most important, it is the inspirational story of a woman who fought back for decades to get justice and won. Velma never stopped trying to get justice for all the women arrested under the Female Refuges Act, and actively lobbied the government, until her death in 2019, to apologize to all women who were wrongly incarcerated. The message in this film to these women and their families is that "they did nothing wrong and it's not their fault."E.DVD.
- Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Demerson, Velma, 1920-2019.; Interracial dating; Race discrimination; Racism; Women prisoners;
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- The warrior's way [videorecording] / by Asher, Christina.; Bosworth, Kate,1983-; Brophy, Jed.; Chang, Tong-gon,1972-; Cox, Tony,1958-; Gillanders, Matt.; Huston, Danny,1962-; Lee, Sngmoo.; Osborne, Barrie.; Rudd, Analin.; Rush, Geoffrey,1951-; Alliance Films.; Boram Entertainment, Inc.; Rogue Pictures.; Wellmade StarM (Firm);
- Director of photography, Woo-Hyung Kim ; editor, Jonno Woodford-Robinson ; music, Javier Navarrete.Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston, Jang Dong Gun, Tony Cox, Analin Rudd, Matt Gillanders, Christina Asher, Jed Brophy.Asian samurai Yang (Korean superstar Jang Dong-gun) has a change of heart after slaughtering his enemy's family, and spares a newborn child. On the run from his master, he heads to America, where he finds a beat-down town that is home to freaks, circus performers, an old drunk (Geoffrey Rush), and a knife-thrower (Kate Bosworth). This spunky love interest soon becomes the student, with the wandering warrior passing along his knowledge so that she can enact revenge against scarred scumbag The Colonel (Danny Huston). As the master tracks the sound of the warrior's sword (literally), the samurai makes one final stand with the town to thwart The Colonel and his gang before they burn it all down. Soon enough, cowboys and ninjas meet in a duel to the death -- guns vs. katanas.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation, 5.1 Dolby Digital.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Assassins; Cowboys; Feature films.; Samurai;
- © c2011., Rogue Pictures ; Distributed by Alliance Films,
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- Maquia [videorecording] : when the promised flower blooms / by Collins, Kevin T.,film director.; Huynh, Xanthe,voice actor.; Irino, Miyu,1988-voice actor.; Iwami, Manaka,voice actor.; Lee, Eddy(Actor),voice actor.; Okada, Mari,screenwriter,film director.; Shout! Factory (Firm),film distributor.;
- Japanese voices: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yko Hikasa ; English voices: Xanthe Huynh, Eddy Lee, Ryan Bartley.Though only fifteen, Maquia knows she will live for centuries without aging past adolescence. She belongs to the Iorph, a clan of ageless beings just like her. Maquia's elders warn her not to fall in love with anyone outside their realm, lest she wish to encounter true loneliness in the end. But fate pushes Maquia out into the mortal world one night, when an invading territory separates her from the clan. There she discovers an orphaned baby, Ariel, and takes him in as her own child.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Motion pictures, Japanese.; Foreign films.; Action and adventure films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Families; Longevity; Mothers and sons;
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- Black star / by Alexander, Kwame.;
- 12-year old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Lee's Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South. Even so, Nana Kofi's thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so many more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn't old enough to know about certain things like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge and why she can never play on the brand-new real deal baseball field on the other side of town. When Charley challenges a neighborhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field, she makes a fateful decision. A child cannot protect herself if she does not know her history, and Charley's choice brings consequences she never could have imagined.
- Subjects: Novels in verse.; Historical fiction.; Baseball; African Americans; Race relations;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Maquia [videorecording] : when the promised flower blooms / by Collins, Kevin T.,film director.; Huynh, Xanthe,voice actor.; Irino, Miyu,1988-voice actor.; Iwami, Manaka,voice actor.; Lee, Eddy(Actor),voice actor.; Okada, Mari,screenwriter,film director.; Shout! Factory (Firm),film distributor.;
- Japanese voices: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yko Hikasa ; English voices: Xanthe Huynh, Eddy Lee, Ryan Bartley.Though only fifteen, Maquia knows she will live for centuries without aging past adolescence. She belongs to the Iorph, a clan of ageless beings just like her. Maquia's elders warn her not to fall in love with anyone outside their realm, lest she wish to encounter true loneliness in the end. But fate pushes Maquia out into the mortal world one night, when an invading territory separates her from the clan. There she discovers an orphaned baby, Ariel, and takes him in as her own child.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.78:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Motion pictures, Japanese.; Foreign films.; Action and adventure films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Families; Longevity; Mothers and sons;
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- His dark materials. [videorecording] / by Bakare, Ariyon,1971-actor.; Connor, Kit,2004-actor.; Cosmo, James,actor.; Keen, Dafne,2005-actor.; McAvoy, James,1979-actor.; Miranda, Lin-Manuel,1980-actor.; Scott, Andrew,1976 October 21-actor.; Wilson, Amir,2004-actor.; Wilson, Ruth,1982-actor.; television adaptation of (work):Pullman, Philip,1946-His dark materials.; HBO Entertainment (Firm),production company.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
- Dafne Keen, Kit Connor, Ruth Wilson, James Mcavoy, Clarke Peters, Lin-Manuel Miranda.Lyra, the young protagonist of the story, lives in Jordan College, Oxford. Placed there at the request of her Uncle, Lord Asriel, she lives a sheltered life among the scholars and college staff while under the watchful protection of the Master and Librarian Scholar Charles. When the glamorous and mesmeric Mrs. Coulter enters Lyra's life, she embarks upon a dangerous journey of discovery from Oxford to London. Here she meets Father MacPhail, Lord Boreal, and journalist Adele Starminster at a glittering society party where she first hears about the sinister General Oblation Board. Lyra is subsequently thrown into the nomadic world of the boat dwelling Gyptians, Ma Costa, Farder Coram, John Faa, Raymond Van Geritt, Jack Verhoeven, and Benjamin de Ruyter, who take her North in her quest. Once in the North she meets charismatic aeronaut and adventurer Lee Scoresby who joins them on their epic journey and who becomes one of Lyra's closest allies.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character); Good and evil; Kidnapping; Magic; Missing persons;
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- Demon Copperhead : a novel / by Kingsolver, Barbara,author.;
- Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Opioid abuse; Orphans; Teenage boys;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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- Demon Copperhead [text (large print)] : a novel / by Kingsolver, Barbara,author.;
- Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Large type books.; Novels.; Opioid abuse; Orphans; Teenage boys;
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