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- Growing up Getty : the story of America's most unconventional dynasty / by Reginato, James,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, is the patriarch of an extraordinary cast of sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. While some have been brought low by mental illness, drug addiction, and one of the most sensational kidnapping cases of the 20th century, many of Getty's heirs have achieved great success. In addition to Mark Getty, a cofounder of Getty Images, and Anne G. Earhart, an award-winning environmentalist, others have made significant marks in a variety of fields, from music and viniculture to politics and LGBTQ rights. Now, across four continents, a new generation of lively, unique, and even outrageous Gettys are emerging, and not coasting on the dynasty's still-immense wealth. August Getty designs extravagant gowns worn by Katy Perry, Cher, and other stars; his sibling, Nats-a fellow LGBTQ rights activist who announced his gender transition following his wedding to transgender icon Gigi Gorgeous-produces a line of exclusive streetwear. Their fascinating cousins include Balthazar, a multi-hyphenate actor-director-DJ-designer, and Isabel, a singer-songwriter-MBA candidate. A far-flung yet surprisingly close-knit group, the ascendant Gettys are bringing this iconic family onto the global stage in the 21st century. Through extensive research, including access to J. Paul Getty's diaries and love letters, and fresh interviews with family members and friends, Growing Up Getty offers an inside look into the benefits and burdens of being part of today's world of the ultra-wealthy"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Getty family.; Children of the rich; Millionaires;
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- Mortified [electronic resource] : by Jackson, Kristy.aut; McGregor, Rhael.ill; cloudLibrary;
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOREST OF READING SILVER BIRCH AWARD “Brilliant, funny, unputdownable.”– Alice Kuipers, award-winning children’s author For fans of Remarkably Ruby and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, comedy and cringe come together in this sweet novel about facing your fears. It’s nothing short of a catastrophe when someone secretly signs up Belinda Houle, the school’s shyest kid, to audition for a play. Belinda turns to Sally—her unflappable best friend and resident witch—for help. Belinda doesn’t believe in magic, but if Sally says she has a spell for confidence...well, it couldn’t hurt to try it. Could it? What follows the spell is a series of disasters so disastrous they would have been funny—if only they weren’t happening to Belinda! From eating dog food, to losing her hair in a straightening mishap, to wrecking a mural and ending up with globs of paint on her head, things get worse and worse for Belinda until she must face the facts: One piece of bad luck can be explained away, but this? This is a straight-up curse! Can she break the curse before the dreamy Ricky Daniels takes notice of her crooked wig? More importantly, can Belinda battle the very thing she hoped the spell would take away: her embarrassment?
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Humorous Stories; Adolescence; Emotions & Feelings;
- © 2024., HarperCollins Canada,
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- Monster trucks [videorecording] / by Wedge, Chris,1958-film director.; Parent, Mary,film producer.; Stewart, Denis L.,film producer.; Connolly, Derek,screenwriter.; Glover, Danny,actor.; Lennon, Thomas,1970-actor.; Levy, Jane,1989-actor.; Lowe, Rob,actor.; Pepper, Barry,1970-actor.; Ryan, Amy,actor.; Till, Lucas,1990-actor.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.; Nickelodeon Movies,production company.; Distruption Entertainment,production company.;
Music, David Sardy ; editor, Conrad Buff ; director of photography, Don Burgess ; story, Matthew Robinson, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger.Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Thomas Lennon, Barry Pepper, Rob Lowe, Danny Glover, Amy Ryan.Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp, a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; High school seniors; Monster trucks; Oil well drilling;
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- The Croods. [videorecording] / by Cage, Nicolas,1965-voice actor.; Crawford, Joel,film director.; Dinklage, Peter,voice actor.; Duke, Clark,1985-voice actor.; Keener, Catherine,voice actor.; Leachman, Cloris,voice actor.; Mann, Leslie,1972-voice actor.; Reynolds, Ryan,voice actor.; Sanders, Chris,voice actor.; Stone, Emma,1988-voice actor.; Tran, Kelly Marie,voice actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Ryan Reynolds, Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Kelly Marie Tran, Leslie Mann, Catherine Keener, Peter Dinklage, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke, Chris Sanders.The Croods need a new place to live. So, the first prehistoric family sets off into the world in search of a safer place to call home. When they discover an idyllic walled-in paradise that meets all their needs, they think their problems are solved, except for one thing. Another family already lives there: the Bettermans.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG.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, Dolby Digital 2.0.
- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Animated films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Families; Prehistoric peoples;
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- Diary of a spider-- and more cute critter stories [videorecording] / by Jones, Angus T.; Hayes, Sean,1970-; Jordan, Owen.; Cronin, Doreen.Diary of a spider.Videorecording.; Laden, Nina.Roberto the insect architect.Videorecording.; Freeman, Don,1908-1978.Norman the doorman.Videorecording.; Kellogg, Steven.Mysterious tadpole.Videorecording.; Blake, Quentin.Story of the dancing frog.Videorecording.; Weston Woods Studios.; Scholastic Inc.; New Video Group.;
Diary of a spider -- Roberto the insect architect -- Norman the doorman -- The mysterious tadpole -- The story of the dancing frog.Narrated by Angus T. Jones, Sean Hayes, Owen Jordan, Neil Innes and Amanda Plummer.Diary of a spider. A young spider discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being a spider, including how to spin webs and avoid vacuum cleaners.Roberto the insect architect. A termite named Roberto follows his dream of becoming an architect and travels to the big city where he hopes to find success.Norman the doorman. Norman the doorman of a mouse hole in an art museum, desires nothing more in life than to leisurely inspect the art treasures in the upstairs galleries.The mysterious tadpole. It soon becomes clear that Louis's pet tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog.The story of the dancing frog. Relates the adventures of Great Aunt Gertrude and her dancing frog as they travel the world and gain fame and fortune.G.DVD.
- Subjects: Cronin, Doreen.; Spiders; Insects; Mice; Tadpoles; Friendship; Children's films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for children.;
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- The Croods. [videorecording] / by Cage, Nicolas,1965-voice actor.; Crawford, Joel,film director.; Dinklage, Peter,voice actor.; Duke, Clark,1985-voice actor.; Keener, Catherine,voice actor.; Leachman, Cloris,voice actor.; Mann, Leslie,1972-voice actor.; Reynolds, Ryan,voice actor.; Sanders, Chris,voice actor.; Stone, Emma,1988-voice actor.; Tran, Kelly Marie,voice actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Ryan Reynolds, Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Kelly Marie Tran, Leslie Mann, Catherine Keener, Peter Dinklage, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke, Chris Sanders.The Croods need a new place to live. So, the first prehistoric family sets off into the world in search of a safer place to call home. When they discover an idyllic walled-in paradise that meets all their needs, they think their problems are solved, except for one thing. Another family already lives there: the Bettermans.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos 2.0 DVS, Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Animated films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Families; Prehistoric peoples;
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- Hieroglyphics : a novel / by McCorkle, Jill,1958-author.;
"Lil and Frank married young, having bonded over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries-perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town, where a young single mother, Shelley, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank's repeated visits to Shelley's house begin to trigger memories of her own family, memories that she'd rather forget. Because, after all, not all parents are ones you wish to remember"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Family secrets; Married people; Memory; Parents; Retirees; Secrecy; Spouses;
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- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy / by Macintyre, Ben,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI-and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century-between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy-and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000.; Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.; Cold War.; Espionage, Soviet; Nuclear weapons; Spies; Spies; Spies; Women spies;
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- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival / by Dronfield, Jeremy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Vienna, 1930s. The Kleinmann family live a simple, ordinary life. Gustav works as a furniture upholsterer while Tini keeps their modest apartment. Their greatest joy is their children: Fritz, Edith, Herta and Kurt. But after the Nazis annex Austria, the Kleinmanns' world rapidly shifts before their eyes. Neighbours turn on them, the business is seized. The threat to the family becomes ever greater. Gustav and Fritz are among the first to be taken. Nazi police send the pair to Buchenwald in Germany, the beginning of an unimaginable ordeal. Over the months of suffering that follow, there is one constant that keeps them alive: the love between father and son. Then they discover that Gustav will be transferred to Auschwitz, a certain death sentence, and Fritz is faced with a choice: let his father die alone, or join him ... Based on meticulous archival research and Gustav's secret diary, this book tells the Kleinmanns' remarkable story for the first time."-- Page [4] of cover.
- Subjects: Personal narratives.; Kleinmann, Gustav, 1891-1976.; Kleinmann, Fritz, 1923-; Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Fathers and sons; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
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- My friend Anne Frank : the inspiring and heartbreaking true story of best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds / by Pick-Goslar, Hannah,author.; Kraft, Dina,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink--but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger. In this long‑awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Pick-Goslar, Hannah; Frank, Anne, 1929-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews;
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