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Velvet was the night / by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,author.;

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman--and journeying deeper into Leonora's secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Meanwhile, someone else is also looking for Leonora at the behest of his boss, a shadowy figure who commands goon squads dedicated to squashing political activists. Elvis is an eccentric thug who longs to escape his own life: He loathes violence and loves old movies and rock 'n' roll. But as Elvis searches for the missing woman, he comes to observe Maite from a distance--and grows more and more obsessed with this woman who shares his love of music, and the unspoken loneliness of his heart. Now as Maite and Elvis come closer to discovering the secrets behind Leonora's disappearance, they can no longer escape the danger that threatens to consume their lives, with hitmen, government agents, and Russian spies aiming to protect Leonora's secrets--at gunpoint"--

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Noir fiction.; Missing persons; Man-woman relationships;

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A bold return to giving a damn : one farm, six generations, and the future of food / by Harris, Will,III,author.;

"From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate. Featured in Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited White Oak Pastures he was a full-time commodity cowboy who played hard and fast with every tool the system offered--chemicals, antibiotics, steroids, and more. His ancestors had built a highly profitable, conventionally-run machine, but over time he found himself disgusted with the excess, cruelty, and smalltown devastation this system entailed. So he bet the farm on forging a different way of doing things. One that works with nature not against it, and bridges the quickly widening delta between consumers and their food. Armed with tenacity, conviction and an outsized tolerance for risk, Harris called his approach "radical traditional" and it made him the pioneer of regenerative agriculture long before the phrase existed. At once an intimate, multi-generational memoir and a microcosm of American agriculture at large, A BOLD RETURN TO GIVING A DAMN offers a pathway back to producing food the right way. At a time when food supply chains are straining, climate-induced catastrophes are playing havoc with harvests, and concern around who owns America's farmland are more prescient than ever, Will Harris urges us to consider where the food we eat really comes from, and to re-connect to the places and people who raise what we eat each day. With keen storytelling, a good dose of irreverence, and an unflinching willingness to speak truth to power, Harris shows us why it's never been more important to know your farmer than now"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Harris, Will, III.; Agriculture.; Animal welfare.; Farms.;

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Fat talk : parenting in the age of diet culture / by Sole-Smith, Virginia,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about the motives and morals of people in larger bodies. And parents today, having themselves grown up in the confusion of modern diet culture, worry equally about the risks of our kids caring too much about being "thin" and about what happens if our kids are fat. Sole-Smith shows how the reverberations of this messaging and social pressures on young bodies continue well into adulthood--and what we can do to fight them. Fat Talk argues for a reclaiming of "fat," which is not synonymous with "unhealthy," "inactive," or "lazy." Talking to researchers and activists, as well as parents and kids across a broad swath of the country, Sole-Smith lays bare how America's focus on solving the "childhood obesity epidemic" has perpetuated a second crisis of disordered eating and body hatred for kids of all sizes. She exposes our society's internalized fatphobia and elucidates how and why we need to stop "preventing obesity" and start supporting kids in the bodies they have. Continuing conversations started by works like Girls & Sex, Under Pressure, and Essential Labor, Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture messaging, and ultimately empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape. Sole-Smith offers an alternative framework for parenting around food and bodies, and a way for us all to work toward a more weight-inclusive world--because it's not our kids, or their bodies, who need fixing"--

Subjects: Body image in children.; Obesity in children.; Parent and child.; Weight loss;

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Your life depends on it : what you can do to make better choices about your health / by Miron-Shatz, Talya,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Medicine used to be a paternalistic affair: a doctor's job was to make all the decisions, and a patient's job was to obey them. But technological, economic, and cultural changes over the last century have given us unprecedented control over our own healthcare. We have been turned into healthcare consumers, expected to work with doctors on complicated medical decisions. But just how capable are we of making those decisions? Talya Miron-Shatz is an expert in the psychology of risk and decision-making. She points out that medical decisions, whether about undergoing chemotherapy or treating a sprained ankle, are among the most difficult choices we ever make. They are personal and often require us to act quickly. The doctors we rely on are under pressure to make money for hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. And even if they have your best interests at heart, they often simply don't know enough about us, nor do they have the time to learn. The decisions we make about our health are riddled with psychological traps. As a result, we are likely to misuse medication, fall for pseudoscientific cure-alls, undergo needless procedures, and avoid the doctor when we should be getting help. If you need further proof, look no further than the coronavirus pandemic, in which responses from Americans have ranged from ignorance, to confusion, to outright defiance over the simple choice of wearing a mask. Your Life Depends on It offers an unsparing yet sympathetic diagnosis of the ways of thinking that lead to bad medical choices, shines a light on how the medical system fails and sometimes even capitalizes on patients' ignorance, and maps a new model for creating effective doctor-patient relationships. And ultimately, these insights give us a better way of thinking about a question that extends beyond medicine: What's the best way to make important decisions when it isn't possible to know all the facts? Your Life Depends on It offers a new take on the science of making good decisions, where it will build on the success of books like Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge. But while most books in this space are happy to talk about relatively mundane topics like clothing sales or traffic patterns, this book is a vital guide to the choices that matter most, the choices your life depends on"--

Subjects: Health behavior.; Health;

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The Killing: S1. by MHz (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by MHz in 2007.Detective Sarah Lund puts her retirement plans on hold when a young girl is found brutally murdered in a car linked to prominent politician Troels Hartmann. As she tracks the intricate web of suspects, Sarah becomes increasingly consumed by the case.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;

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The Killing. by MHz (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by MHz in 2007.Detective Sarah Lund puts her retirement plans on hold when a young girl is found brutally murdered in a car linked to prominent politician Troels Hartmann. As she tracks the intricate web of suspects, Sarah becomes increasingly consumed by the case.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Television series.; Crime.; Detective and mystery films.; Motion pictures--Europe.;

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Hiroshima Mon Amour. by Resnais, Alain,film director.; Okada, Eiji,actor.; Riva, Emmanuelle,actor.; Barbaud, Pierre,actor.; Dassas, Stella,actor.; The Criterion Collection (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Barbaud, Stella DassasOriginally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1959.A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award–nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures, French.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;

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The raid 2. Indonesian with English subtitles [1 blu-ray - 150 min.] / by Evans, Gareth,1985-film director.; Uwais, Iko,1983-actor.; Ruhian, Yayan,actor.; Putra, Arifin,actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);

Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra.Following immediately after the event of The Raid: Redemption, Rama (Uwais) is forced to reinvent himself as an undercover cop in order to provide protection for his wife and child. Working for the anti-corruption task force led by the one person he can trust, Bunawar, he is given a mission to engage himself as an enforcer for a local mob boss, Bangun. Finding a way in through Bangun's son Uco, Rama must hunt for information linking Bangun with the police force corruption. All the while, he harbors a dangerous and personal vendetta for revenge and justice that threatens to consume him and bring both this mission and the organized crime syndicates crashing down.CHV rating: 18A for brutal violence and gory scenes.Blu-ray, widescreen presentaton ; Dolby digital.1

Subjects: Martial arts films.; Action films.; Dramatic films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Undercover operations; Police corruption; Gangsters; Battles; Survival;

Home use only.

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Ascension [videorecording] / by Kingdon, Jessica,film director,film producer.; Simon-Kennedy, Kira,film producer.; Truesdell, Nathan,film producer.; Chicken & Egg Pictures (Firm),production company.; Firelight Media,production company.; Grasshopper Film (Firm),publisher.; MTV Documentary Films,presenter.; XTR (Firm),production company.;

Cinematography, Jessica Kingdon, Nathan Truesdell ; editor, Jessica Kingdon ; music, Dan Deacon.Nominated for Best Documentary by the Director's Guild, Producer's Guild, Independent Spirit Awards, and Gotham Awards, and winner of Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, this film explores the paradoxical pursuit of wealth and progress in China. Loosely structured around the distinct social and economic classes that divide the nation, this extraordinary documentary follows factory workers, middle class consumers and elites as they chase the elusive "Chinese Dream."E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures, Chinese.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Capitalism; Industrial productivity; Social classes;

For private home use only.

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