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Legacy of war / by Smith, Wilbur A.,author.; Churchill, David,1959-author.;
The war is over, Hitler is dead, and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe. Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire is feeling the stirrings of rebellion. As the situation becomes violent and the Courtney family home is under threat, Leon Courtney finds himself caught between two powerful sides and a battle for the freedom of a country.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Anti-imperialist movements; Anti-Nazi movement; Courtney family (Fictitious characters); Imperialism; Nazis; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Gilmore girls. [videorecording] / by Sherman-Palladino, Amy.; Graham, Laura.; Bledel, Alexis,1982-; McCarthy, Melissa.; Agena, Keiko.; Truesdale, Yanic.; Patterson, Scott.; Weil, Liza.; Padalecki, Jared.; Ventimiglia, Milo.; Bishop, Kelly.; Herrmann, Edward.; Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions.; Warner Bros. Television.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Keiko Agena, Yanic Truesdale, Scott Patterson, Liza Weil, Jared Padalecki, Milo Ventimiglia, Kelly Bishop ; special appearance by Edward Herrmann.Lorelai and Rory are a mother and daughter who are sharing life's ups and downs in a small town in Connecticut. This heartfelt, humorous drama appeals to young and old alike with it's blend of traditional family issues and hip attitude.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, full screen presentation; Dolby digital stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television programs.; Friendship; Mothers and daughters;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beautiful country : a memoir / by Wang, Qian Julie,1987-author.;
"An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five years living undocumented after immigrating with her parents from China to New York City in 1994. In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country," but when seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. Unable to speak English at first, Qian is isolated and disregarded, put into special education classes because she doesn't speak the language and humiliated by teachers and classmates when she struggles to pay attention because of hunger or exhaustion. She encounters racism, and people of other races, for the first time, shocked at where her family fits in comparison to their status as educated elites in China. After school she works shifts alongside her mother in Chinatown sweatshops. There is so much about Qian's new home that doesn't make sense, but the rules of survival are drilled into her head: If you see a policeman, you must run in the other direction. If anyone asks--or even if they don't--you tell them you were born here. Do as you're told or we could be separated forever. Understanding impliclity the toll this has taken on her parents, Qian tries desperately to cheer them up and mediate their increasingly heated arguments, certain that if she is good enough, she can hold the family together. In remarkable, unsentimental prose Wang channels her childhood perspective, illuminating the cruelty and indignity of America's immigration system, while also crafting a narrative of resilience from her family's small moments of joy: their first slice of pizza, "shopping days" when the family would unearth unlikely treasures in Brooklyn's trash, and the necessary escape she found in books at the local library. Searing and unforgettable, Beautiful Country is an essential book about the cost of making a home in a hostile land from an astonishing new talent"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Wang, Qian Julie, 1987-; Wang, Qian Julie, 1987-; Chinese Americans; Illegal aliens; Immigrants;
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Pelé [videorecording] : birth of a legend / by Grazer, Brian,1953-film producer.; Wilson, Colin,film producer.; Zimbalist, Jeff,film director.; Zimbalist, Michael,film director.; Santoro, Rodrigo,1975-actor.; D'Onofrio, Vincent,actor.; Boneta, Diego,1990-actor.; Paula, Kevin De,actor.; IFC Films,publisher.;
Vincent D'onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Kevin De Paula, Leonardo Lima Carvalho, Mariana Nunes.Pele. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn't afford a real soccer ball.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, some smoking and language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Sports films.; Pelé, 1940-; Soccer players; Soccer;
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Women we buried, women we burned : a memoir / by Snyder, Rachel Louise,author.;
"A memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness. For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. Women We Buried, Women We Burned is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age 16. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel found herself masquerading as an adult, talking her way into college, and eventually travelling the globe. Survival became her reporter's beat. In places like India, Tibet, and Niger, she interviewed those who had been through the unimaginable. In Cambodia, where she lived for six years, she watched a country reckon with the horrors of its own recent history. When she returned to the States with a family of her own, it was with a new perspective on old family wounds, and a chance for healing from the most unexpected place. A piercing account of Snyder's journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of domestic violence, Women We Buried, Women We Burned is a memoir that embodies the transformative power of resilience"-
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Snyder, Rachel Louise.; Family violence; Journalists; Victims of family violence.; Women authors; Women journalists;
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Best of the Berenstain Bears [videorecording] / by Berenstain, Stan,1923-2005,creator.; Berenstain, Jan,1923-2012,creator.; Agogo Entertainment Limited,production company.; Nelvana (Firm),production company.; KaBOOM! Entertainment,distributor.; Treehouse TV,production company.; Phase 4 Films (Firm),production company.;
The Best of Berenstain Bears brings together your favourite episodes for over 60 minutes of bear-loving fun! Sit down with the best bear family in all of Bear Country, and join Brother Bear as he is recruited to be the talent scout for the upcoming talent show, and Sister Bear as she goes to her first sleepover at Lizzy's house.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Berenstain Bears (Fictitious characters); Bears; Families;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The party crasher : a novel / by Kinsella, Sophie,author.;
"It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been sold. When Krista decides to throw a grand "house cooling" party, Effie is originally left off the guest list--and then receives a last-minute "anti-invitation" (maybe it's because she called Krista a gold-digger, but Krista totally deserved it, and it was mostly a joke anyway). Effie declines, but then remembers a beloved childhood treasure is still hidden in the house. Her only chance to retrieve it is to break into Greenoaks while everyone is busy celebrating. As Effie sneaks around the house, hiding under tables and peeping through trapdoors, she realizes the secrets Greenoaks holds aren't just in the dusty passageways and hidden attics she grew up exploring. Watching how her sister, brother, and dad behave when they think no one is looking, Effie overhears conversations, makes discoveries, and begins to see her family in a new light. Then she runs into Joe--the love of her life, who long ago broke her heart, and who's still as handsome and funny as ever--and even more truths emerge. But will Effie act on these revelations? Will she stay hidden or step out into the party and take her place with her family? And truthfully, what did she really come back to Greenoaks for? Over the course of one blowout party, Effie realizes that she must be honest with herself and confront her past before she'll ever be able to face her future"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Chick lit.; Adult children of divorced parents; Families; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Self-realization in women;
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The devil's hand [sound recording] / by Carr, Jack(Joint pseudonym),author.; Porter, Roy,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Ray Porter.It's been twenty years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and embarked on twenty years of war. The enemy has been patient, learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary, but he’s also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the Great Satan and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Political fiction.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Navy. SEALs; Biological weapons; Terrorism; Terrorism; Veterans;
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Jungleland [videorecording] / by Barden, Jessica,1992-actor.; Hunnam, Charlie,1980-actor.; Majors, Jonathan,1989-actor.; O'Connell, Jack,1989-actor.; Winkler, Max,1983-film director.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Charlie Hunnam, Jonathan Majors, Jessica Barden, Jack O'connell, Fran Kranz, John Cullum.Stan and Lion are two brothers struggling to stay relevant in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. When Stan fails to pay back a dangerous crime boss, they're forced to deliver an unexpected traveler as they journey across the country for a high-stakes fighting tournament. While Stan trains Lion for the fight of his life, a series of events threaten to tear the brothers apart but their love for one another and belief in a better life keep them going.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for pervasive language, some sexual content, violence and nudity.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Crime films.; Boxers (Sports); Boxing; Brothers; Crime;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Damages. [videorecording] / by Bean, Noah.; Byrne, Rose.; Close, Glenn,1947-; Danson, Ted,1947-; Donovan, Tate.; Ivanek, Zeljko,1957-; Kessler, Glenn.; Kessler, Todd A.; Zelman, Daniel.; FX Productions (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Television.;
Disc 1. Pilot, Get me a lawyer -- Jesus, Mary & Joe Cocker -- And my paralyzing fear of death -- Tastes like a Ho-Ho -- A regular Earl Anthony.Disc 2. She spat at me -- We are not animals -- Blame the victim -- Do you regret what we did? -- Sort of like a family.Disc 3. I hate these people -- There's no 'we' anymore.Disc 4. Because I know Patty.Production credits vary by episode.Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Zeljko Ivanek, Noah Bean, Tate Donovan, Ted Danson.Patty Hewes, the nation's most revered and most reviled litigator, and her bright, ambitious protégée Ellen Parsons become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting Arthur Frobisher, one of the country's wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles Frobisher and his attorney, Ellen learns what it takes to win at all costs.14A.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.2008 Golden Globe winner, Best performance by an actress in a television series, drama
Subjects: Class actions (Civil procedure); Law students; Lawyers; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2008., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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