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Swift [videorecording] / by Block, Andrea,film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Dafoe, Willem,voice actor.; Haas, Christian,film director,film producer.; Paulson, Rob,voice actor.; Winslet, Kate,voice actor.; Shout! Factory Kids (Firm),film distributor.;
Kate Winslet, Willem Dafoe, Rob Paulson.The little orphaned swift Manou is adopted by a seagull couple and struggles for acceptance in the seagulls' colony. When he meets other swifts, he suddenly finds himself torn between two worlds and must decide where he really belongs.G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, stereophonic.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Swifts; Birds; Gulls; Families; Orphans;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great reclamation / by Heng, Rachel,author.;
"A sweeping novel set in Singapore during the years leading up to its independence from British colonial powers, about one young boy from a rural fishing family and the love story that will shape his life and complicate the fate of his larger community"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Gifted persons; Man-woman relationships; World War, 1939-1945;
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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / by Isenberg, Nancy.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Fables we forget by -- To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Degeneration of the American Breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; Cowards, Poltroons, and mudsills : civil war as class warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing Rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin -- America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash."A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party,"--NoveList.LSC
Subjects: Social classes; Poor whites; Working class whites;
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Wicked dreams / by Jackson, Lisa,author.; Bush, Nancy,1953-author.;
"Private investigator Ravinia Rutledge, when a dead body is found with her phone number and the words 'Next of Kin,' returns to Siren Song-a place marked by unexplained deaths and tragedies where she must stop a monster from her past from killing each and every member of The Colony"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Cults; Murder; Secrecy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Champion : a Legend novel / by Lu, Marie,1984-;
"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopias.; Plague; Imaginary wars and battles;
© c2013., G.P. Putnam's Sons,
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Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution / by Kuang, R. F.(Rebecca F.),author.;
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes 'Babel', a thematic response to 'The Secret History' and a tonal retort to 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Anti-imperialist movements; Imperialism; Magic; Translating and interpreting;
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Silverwing / by Oppel, Kenneth,1967-; Steininger, Christopher.;
Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. When he becomes separated from the other bats during a fierce storm, he must undertake the most incredible journey of his young life.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Action and adventure comics.; Bats; Animal migration; Cartoons and comics.;
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The city of mirrors : a novel / by Cronin, Justin,author.;
"The third and final installment in the Passage trilogy. With The Twelve destroyed, many wonder if the threat to humankind also has vanished. But then a terrifying threat shudders the gates of the colony ... and Amy--the girl who must save the world, Peter, Alicia, and Michael must at last confront their destinies."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Epic fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Survival;
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The city of mirrors [sound recording] : a novel / by Cronin, Justin,author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick."The third and final installment in the Passage trilogy. With The Twelve destroyed, many wonder if the threat to humankind also has vanished. But then a terrifying threat shudders the gates of the colony ... and Amy--the girl who must save the world, Peter, Alicia, and Michael must at last confront their destinies."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Epic fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Survival;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Secret River - Part 1. by Reid, Daina,film director.; Hulme, Lachy,actor.; Jackson-Cohen, Oliver,actor.; Snook, Sarah,actor.; Minchin, Tim,actor.; Jamieson, Trevor,actor.; Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Lachy Hulme, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Sarah Snook, Tim Minchin, Trevor JamiesonOriginally produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2015.In 1813, after serving eight years of a life sentence in the penal colony of New South Wales, convict Will Thornhill and his wife Sal stake a claim of land on the remote and beautiful Hawkesbury River. But Sal develops a life threatening illness and misunderstandings with the local Indigenous people overshadow their new life.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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