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Light bringer / by Brown, Pierce,1988-author.;
"The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror Lysander. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves--Virginia, Cassius, Sevro--in order to defend the Republic. So begins Darrow's long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield. Because Eo's dream is still alive--and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Alliances; Friendship; Government, Resistance to; Imaginary wars and battles; Interpersonal relations; Interplanetary voyages; Space colonies;
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The exiles : a novel / by Kline, Christina Baker,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to 'the land beyond the seas,' Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel--a skilled midwife and herbalist--is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Exile (Punishment); Women; Female friendship; Penal colonies;
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Matoaka : the true story of Pocahontas / by Metchooyeah, Jillian.; Nordstrom, Nicole.;
Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the amazing life of Matoaka, better known today as Pocahontas, with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress.
Subjects: Biographies.; Readers (Publications); Pocahontas, -1617; Powhatan women; Powhatan Indians; Indigenous peoples;
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Spirit of the grassroots people : seeking justice for Indigenous survivors of Canada's colonial education system / by Mason, Raymond,1946-author.; Pind, Jackson,1993-editor.; Christou, Theodore Michael,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers a firsthand account of the personal and political challenges Mason confronted on this journey. A riveting and at times harrowing read, Spirit of the Grassroots People describes the author's experiences in Indian day and residential schools in Manitoba and his struggles to find meaning in life after trauma and abuse. Mason details the work that he and his colleagues did over many years to gain recognition and compensation for their suffering. Drawing from Indigenous oral traditions as well as Western historiography, the work applies the concept of two-eyed seeing to the histories of colonialism and education in Canada. The memoir is supplemented by a final chapter in which Theodore Michael Christou and Jackson Pind put Mason's story into a historical and educational context. An essential key to understanding the legacy of Indian residential and day schools, this text is both a documentation of history and a deeply personal story of a human experience."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Mason, Raymond, 1946-; Adult child abuse victims; Ojibwe;
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The crucible of war : the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766 / by Anderson, Fred,1949-;
Subjects: Seven Years' War, 1756-1763.;
© c2000., Alfred A. Knopf,
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The Callisto protocol [electronic resource]. by Microsoft Corporation.;
Game.In this narrative-driven, third-person survival horror game set 300 years in the future, the player will take on the role of Jacob Lee--a victim of fate thrown into Black Iron Prison, a maximum-security penitentiary located on Jupiter's moon, Callisto. When inmates begin to transform into monstrous creatures, the prison is thrown into chaos. To survive, Jacob must battle his way to safety to escape Black Iron Prison, while uncovering the dark and disturbing secrets buried beneath the surface of Callisto. Using a unique blend of shooting and close-quarters combat, Jacob will need to adapt his tactics to combat the rapidly evolving creatures while scavenging to unlock new weapons, gear, and abilities to outrun the growing threat and escape the horrors of Jupiter's Dead Moon.ESRB Content Rating: M, Mature, 17+ (Intense violence, blood and gore, strong language).Blu-ray disc compatible with Xbox One console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p/4K Ultra HD ; Dolby Atmos in game surround sound ; Cross-generation play.
Subjects: Xbox video games.; Horror video games.; Survival video games.; Third person video games.; Action video games.; Role playing video games.; Video games.; Xbox One (Video game console); Video games.; Computer games.; Callisto protocol (Game); Infection; Prisons; Space colonies; Survival; Computer adventure games;
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Jamestown. [videorecording] / by Alexander, John,television director.; Battrick, Naomi,actor.; Beauvoir, Sue de,television producer.; Beesley, Max,actor.; Colwell, Rachel,actor.; Cox, Claire,actor.; Dooley, Shaun,actor.; Ferran, Patsy,actor.; Flemyng, Jason,actor.; Gallagher, Bill,creator,screenwriter.; Gorman, Burn,actor.; Kelly, Dean Lennox,actor.; Lee, Bwilym,actor.; Martin, Stuart,actor.; Ogunbiyi, Abiola,actor.; Pitts, Tony,actor.; Queypo, Kalani,actor.; Roskell, Luke,actor.; Rundle, Sophie,actor.; Salim, Abubakar,actor.; Starr, Ben,actor.; Stokoe, Matt,actor.; Supernault, Roseanne,actor.; Trujillo, Raoul,actor.; Waddington, Steven,actor.; Walsh, Niamh,actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company,broadcaster.;
Writer, creator, Bill Gallagher ; producer, Sue De Beauvoir ; directors, John Alexander, Sam Donovan, Davis Evans, Bill Galagher, Andy Hay, David Moore, Paul Wilmshurst.Naomi Battrick, Max Beesley, Rachel Colwell, Claire Cox, Shaun Dooley, Patsy Ferran, Jason Flemyng, Burn Gorman, Dean Lennox Kelly, Bwilym Lee, Stuart Martin, Abiola Ogunbiyi, Tony Pitts, Kalani Queypo, Luke Roskell, Sophie Rundle, Abubakar Salim, Ben Starr, Matt Stokoe, Roseanne Supernault, Raoul Trujillo, Steven Waddington, Niamh Walsh.1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; stereo.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Man-woman relationships; Wilderness survival;
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Salvage : readings from the wreck / by Brand, Dionne,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In her first full-length non-fiction since A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand examines "classic" books from her earlier life, exposing implications both personal and political. A bracing look at reading, life, and what remains in the wreck of empire. "The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this ... [the fact that] coloniality constructs outsides and insides -- worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated -- in order to live something like a real self." So writes internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand, as she reflects on her early reading, growing up as an avid bookworm in Trinidad and Tobago, and the dawning realization of how the books she devoured, and sometimes loved, also made Black being inanimate. Uniquely and powerfully blending memoir with rigorous and expansive thinking, Brand explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes in famous and familiar books, looking particularly at the extraordinary implications and modern-day reverberations of stories such as Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe; the ways that practices of reading and writing are shaped by those narrative structures; and the challenges of writing a narrative of Black life that attends to its own expression and consciousness. Much more than a memoir, and much more than a literary examination, this is gripping, revelatory and essential reading by one of our most powerful and brilliant writers."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Literary criticism.; Personal narratives.; Brand, Dionne, 1953-; Black people in literature.; Colonies in literature.; Imperialism in literature.; Racism in literature.;
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Banished. [videorecording] / by Buring, MyAnna,1984-actor.; Duggan, Shaun,screenwriter.; McGovern, Jimmy,screenwriter.; Percival, Dan,television director.; Rhind-Tutt, Julian,1968-actor.; Tovey, Russell,actor.; Walker, Jeffrey,1982-television director.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.,publisher.; RSJ Films,production company.; See-Saw Films,production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,film distributor.;
Julian Rhind-Tutt, Myanna Buring, Russell Tovey.In his latest TV drama Banished, writer Jimmy McGovern tells a brutal story about the first British convicts to be transported to Australia. A story of survival set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in 1788.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Historical television programs.; Penal colonies; Prisoners; Prisons; Television programs.;
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The Nightshade God / by Whitten, Hannah,author.;
"Lore has failed. She couldn't save King Bastian from the rotten god speaking voices in his mind. She couldn't save her allies from being scattered across the continent-their own lesser gods whispering to them in their dreams. She couldn't save her beautiful, corrupt city from the dark power beneath the catacombs. And she couldn't save herself. Banished to the Burnt Isles, Lore must use every skill she earned on the streets of Dellaire to survive the prison colony and figure out a way to defeat the power that's captured everything and everyone she holds dear. When a surprise ally joins her on the Burnt Isles she realizes the way forward may lie on the island itself. Somehow, her friends must help her collect the far-scattered pieces of the broken Fount-the source of all the god's powers-and bring them back together on the Burnt Isles, returning all magic to its source and destroying, once and for all, the gods corrupting the land. But as Lore gets closer to her goal, her magic grows stronger ... and to a woman who's always had to fight for survival, that kind of power may be hard to give up"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Gods; Good and evil; Imaginary places; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Penal colonies; Survival;
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