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Two Rivers. by Samuels, Ben,film director.; New Day Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by New Day Films in 2020.Alejandro Jimenez fled Oaxaca, Mexico as a child and survived the desert to fight for a better life. As DACA policies and his status remain embattled in America, he trains tirelessly to embody the best of both his countries: his homeland, and the one he calls home. An inspirational knockout. TWO RIVERS celebrates the immigrant story in America, looking back at how Presidents of both parties have uplifted and disparaged these new arrivals; looking ahead at the best our country has to offer when we uplift our champions. Centered around Alejandro's relationship with his Coach, Puerto Rican-American Mark Roxey, the film provides an intimate and inspiring look at a surrogate father raising a son born to two worlds.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; Emigration and immigration.; Hispanic Americans.;
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Lord of the flies [sound recording] / by Golding, William,1911-1993.;
Read by the author.Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Allegories.; Children's audiobooks.; Good and evil; Leadership; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.;
© p2002., Listening Library,
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Hawk / by Salas, Laura Purdie.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Meet the family -- Life begins -- Early adventures -- Life lessons -- Helping hawks survive -- Family album snapshots.Follow a family of hawks and learn how they raise their young and the skills they need to thrive in the world.
Subjects: Red-tailed hawk; Red-tailed hawk; Red-tailed hawk; Red-tailed hawks; Red-tailed hawks; Hawks; Hawks; Red-tailed hawks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lord of the flies [graphic novel] / by Golding, William; Jongh, Aimée de,1988-author,illustrator.; Golding, William,1911-1993,author.; graphic novelization of (work):Golding, William,1911-1993.Lord of the flies.;
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost. Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn.
Subjects: Action and adventure comics.; Graphic novels.; Graphic novel adaptations.; Psychological comics.; Boys; Interpersonal relations in children; Islands; Survival; Regression (Psychology); Airplane crash survival;
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The dovekeepers [videorecording] / by Brosnahan, Rachel,actor.; Neill, Sam,actor.; Pablo, Cote de,1979-actor.; Prescott, Kathryn,actor.; Simoneau, Yves,television director.; Television adaptation of (work):Hoffman, Alice.Dovekeepers.Videorecording.; CBS Broadcasting Inc.,broadcaster.; CBS DVD (Firm),publisher.; Paramount Home Media Distribution,film distributor.;
Cote De Pablo, Rachel Brosnahan, Kathryn Prescott, Sam Neill, Diego Boneta, Jonas Armstrong, Andrei Claude.Based on the true events at Masada in 70 C.E. After being forced out of their home in Jerusalem by the Romans, 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Besieged at Masada, the Jews held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The series recounts the events from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique back stories, but a common bond for survival.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Female friendship; Historical television programs.; Identity (Psychology); Jews; Man-woman relationships; Religious television programs.; Television mini-series.; Women;
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Visitations [graphic novel] / by Egbert, Corey,1988-author,illustrator.;
Corey's mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents' divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows older, he can't ignore his mother's increasingly wild accusations. Her insistence that Corey act as his sister's protector. Her declaration that Corey's father is the devil. Soon, she whisks Corey and his sister away from their home and into the boiling Nevada desert. There, they struggle to survive with little food and the police on their trail. Meanwhile, under the night sky, Corey is visited by a flickering ghost, a girl who urges him to fight for a different world--one outside of his mother's spoon-fed tales, one Corey must find before it's too late.
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Coming-of-age comics.; Graphic novels.; Egbert, Corey, 1988-; Children of divorced parents; Children of mentally ill mothers; Dysfunctional families; Latter Day Saints; Parental kidnapping; Siblings;
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Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / by Rushkoff, Douglas,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the "Event": the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making-as long as they have enough money and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters-master programmers who want to remake the world from scratch as if redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced that incentivized capitalism is the solution to environmental disasters-Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so. And he shows how recent forms of anti-mainstream rebellion-QAnon, for example, or meme stocks-reinforce the same destructive order. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset created-a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies-and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. In a thundering conclusion, Survival of the Richest argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn't happen in the first place"--
Subjects: Billionaires; Survivalism; Technology and civilization;
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Glass houses / by Ashby, Madeline,author.;
"A masterful near future whodunit for fans of Glass Onion and Black Mirror; join a stranded start-up team led by a terrifyingly realistic charismatic billionaire, a deserted tropical island, and a mysterious AI-driven mansion--as the remaining members disappear one by one. A group of employees and their CEO, celebrating the sale of their remarkable emotion-mapping-AI-algorithm, crash onto a not-quite-deserted tropical island. Luckily, those who survived have found a beautiful, fully-stocked private palace, with all the latest technological updates (though one without connection to the outside world). The house, however, has more secrets than anyone might have guessed, and a much darker reason for having been built and left behind. Kristen, the hyper-competent "chief emotional manager" (i.e., the eccentric boyish billionaire-CEO Sumter's idea of an HR department) is trying to keep her colleagues stable throughout this new challenge, but staying sane seems to be as much of a challenge as staying alive. Being a woman in technology has always meant having to be smarter than anyone expects ... .and Kristen's survival skills are more impressive than anyone knows"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Employees; Islands; Mansions; Secrecy; Survival; Women;
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Alpha [videorecording] / by Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson,actor.; Malthe, Natassia,actor.; Smit-McPhee, Kodi,actor.; Varela, Leonor,1972-actor.; Hughes, Albert,film director.; Kowalczyk, Marcin,1987-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Kodi Smit-Mcphee, Natassia Malthe, Leonor Varela, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Marcin Kowalczyk.An epic adventure, this film tells a fascinating, visually stunning story that shines a light on the origins of man's best friend. Abandoned after his first hunt in the prehistoric Ice Age, a young man (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is left to withstand the hostile wilderness on his own. He soon encounters and befriends a deserted wolf, and the two learn what it takes to survive as a brutal winter approaches.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Domestication; Glacial epoch; Hunting and gathering societies; Human-animal relationships; Human-wolf encounters; Prehistoric peoples; Wolves;
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Hell on wheels. [videorecording] / by Gierhart, Billy,film director.; Meaney, Colm,1953-actor.; Mount, Anson,1973-actor.; Straiton, David,film director.; American Movie Classics Company.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Nomadic Pictures Ltd.;
Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Phil Burke, Ben Esler.Originally broadcast on television in 2015-2016.The last seven episodes of “Hell on Wheels” is the end of the line for Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) and his work on America's first transcontinental railroad. The final push to finish the road brings with it a reckoning for Bohannon and the men standing in his path: the bloodthirsty Swede; the mercenary Chang, and the rapacious Thomas Durant. Cullen contends with corruption, greed and murder as he leads the Central Pacific through the Sierras and across the Utah desert to Promontory Point. While the railroad's completion is certain, who and what will survive the golden spike remains in question - with no one more at risk than Cullen Bohannon.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Western television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television series.; Frontier and pioneer life; Railroads; Revenge;
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