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The nun [videorecording] / by Bichir, Demián,1963-actor.; Bloquet, Jonas,1992-actor.; Dauberman, Gary,screenwriter.; Farmiga, Taissa,1994-actor.; Hardy, Corin,1975-film director.; Safran, Peter,1965-film producer.; Wan, James,1977-screenwriter,film producer.; Atomic Monster Productions,production company.; New Line Cinema Corporation,production company.; Safran Company,production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet,.A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for terror, violence, and disturbing/bloody images.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Demonology; Murder; Nuns; Demoniac possession;
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The nun [videorecording] / by Bichir, Demián,1963-actor.; Bloquet, Jonas,1992-actor.; Dauberman, Gary,screenwriter.; Farmiga, Taissa,1994-actor.; Hardy, Corin,1975-film director.; Safran, Peter,1965-film producer.; Wan, James,1977-screenwriter,film producer.; Atomic Monster Productions,production company.; New Line Cinema Corporation,production company.; Safran Company,production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet,.A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for terror, violence, and disturbing/bloody images.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos-TrueHD 5.1 ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Demonology; Murder; Nuns; Demoniac possession;
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The famine plot : England's role in Ireland's greatest tragedy / by Coogan, Tim Pat,1935-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chronology of the famine -- Setting the scene -- Born to filth -- A million deaths of no use -- Five actors and the orchards of hell -- Meal use -- Evictions -- The work schemes -- The workhouse -- Soup and souperism -- The Poor Law cometh -- Landlords targeted -- Emigration : escape by coffin ship -- The propaganda of famine."A bold new history of the great famine that holds the British government accountable"--P. [2] of cover.
Subjects: Ireland;
© c2012., Palgrave Macmillan,
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A tale of two cities / by Dickens, Charles,1812-1870,author.; Maxwell, Richard,1948-2010,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references.Presents Dickens' classic tale of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution.
Subjects: War fiction.; Historical fiction.; Classics; Literary; French fiction; Executions and executioners; Fathers and daughters; French; Lookalikes;
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Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?. by Lesnick, Charlotte,film director.; Kaiser, Lisbeth,actor.; Penguin Random House (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Lisbeth KaiserOriginally produced by Penguin Random House in 2021.The chronology and themes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s meaningful life are presented in a masterfully succinct book. This age-appropriate introduction honors and shares the life and work of one of the most influential supreme court justices of our time. Written by Lisbeth Kaiser, illustrated by Stanley Chow.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Children's stories.;
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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?. by Lesnick, Charlotte,film director.; Kaiser, Lisbeth,actor.; Penguin Random House (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Lisbeth KaiserOriginally produced by Penguin Random House in 2020.The chronology and themes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s meaningful life are presented in a masterfully succinct book. This age-appropriate introduction honors and shares the life and work of one of the most influential civil right activists of our time. Written by Lisbeth Kaiser, illustrated by Stanley Chow.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Children's stories.;
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The woman in white / by Collins, Wilkie,1824-1889,author.; Sutherland, John,1938-editor,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, & international intrigue. In this new edition, John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, & provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.
Subjects: Gothic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospital patients; Young women; Inheritance and succession; Swindlers and swindling; Fraud; Sisters;
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Letters for the ages : the private and personal letters of Sir Winston Churchill / by Churchill, Winston,1874-1965,author.; Churchill, Winston,1874-1965.Correspondence.Selections.; Drake, James,editor.; Packwood, Allen,editor.;
"Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. They are taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there is a mass of Churchill's correspondence. Several of the letters included have never appeared in book form before. Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure greatly loved the world over, but maybe especially these days in the USA. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. This volume concentrates on his more intimate words. It seeks to show the private man behind the public figure and introduce fresh light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of Churchill's extraordinary career. Churchill was neither a god nor a demon. Through these letters we see him as a human being with human emotions, frailties and a large ego. He was not always right. He held strong opinions and was often provocative. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, Louis de Souza (Boer Secretary of State for War), his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Lord Northcliffe, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera, the French Socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum and Charles De Gaulle. These are letters of a personal nature and are most illuminating. They are enhanced by facsimiles of the letters and images which appear throughout the book, helping the reader to envisage a sense of Churchill in his most private moments."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965;
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Emperor of Rome : ruling the ancient Roman world / by Beard, Mary,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries--and some thirty emperors--that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions that we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor's wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hand--whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Emperors; Emperors;
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Black ghost of empire : the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation / by Manjapra, Kris,1978-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emancipation and how this opportunity to make right further codified the racial caste system-instead of obliterating it. To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think of "emancipation" as a finale, leading to a new age of human rights and universal freedoms. But in reality, emancipations everywhere were incomplete. In Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipation--explaining them in chronological order--along with the lasting impact these transitions had on formerly enslaved groups around the Atlantic. Beginning in 1770s and concluding in 1880s, different kinds of emancipation processes took place across the Atlantic world. These included the Gradual Emancipations of North America, the Revolutionary Emancipation of Haiti, the Compensated Emancipations of European overseas empires, the War Emancipation of the American South, and the Conquest Emancipations that swept across Sub-Saharan Africa. Tragically, despite a century of abolitions and emancipations, systems of social bondage persisted and reconfigured. We still live with these unfinished endings today. In practice, all the slavery emancipations that have ever taken place reenacted racial violence against Black communities, and reaffirmed commitment to white supremacy. The devil lurked in the details of the five emancipation processes, none of which required atonement for wrongs committed, or restorative justice for the people harmed. Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of the ongoing "anti-mattering" of Black people, Black Ghost of Empire shines a light into the deep gap between the idea of slavery's end and its actual perpetuation in various forms--exposing the shadows that linger to this day"--
Subjects: Liberty; Race relations; Slavery;
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