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Midsomer murders. [videorecording] / by Badland, Annette,actor.; Callow, Simon,1949-actor.; Carter, Matt(Television director),television director.; Cruttenden, Abigail,actor.; Dolman, Fiona,actor.; Dudgeon, Neil,actor.; Fleet, James,actor.; Glen, Georgie,actor.; Hendrix, Nick,1985-actor.; Skinner, Claire,actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.;
Claire Skinner, Abigail Cruttenden, Georgie Glen, James Fleet, Simon Callow, Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Annette Badland, Fiona Dolman.The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby; his assistant, DS Jamie Winter; and new pathologist, Dr. Fleur Perkins.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Barnaby, Chief Inspector (Fictitious character); Criminal investigation; Murder; Police;
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The beasts of Paris / by Penney, Stef,author.; Hawley, Nicola Howell,illustrator.;
Paris, 1870. Three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war. Anne is a former patient from the women's asylum, La Salpêtrière, trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that doesn't understand her. Newcomer Lawrence is desperate to develop his talent as a photographer and escape the restrictions of his puritanical Canadian upbringing. Ellis, an army surgeon, has lived through the horror of the American Civil War and will do anything to avoid another bloodbath. Each keeps company with the restless beasts of Paris's famous Menagerie, home and prison to the glamorous predators that draw visitors from all walks of life. Yet these fearsome animals are innocents alongside the looming dogs of war.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes (Paris, France); Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; Photographers; Surgeons; Survival; Winter;
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The forgotten home child / by Graham, Genevieve,author.;
"Canada, 2018 At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left. Soon she'll be gone, just like her husband, her daughter, and the many loved ones she's lost over the years, and the story of her shameful past will die with her. When her great grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago ... England, 1936. Fifteen-year-old Winny has never known a real home. After running away from an abusive stepfather, she falls in with Mary and Jack and their ragtag group of friends roaming the streets of Liverpool, but when they are caught stealing food, Winny and Mary are placed in Dr. Barnardo's Barkingside Home for Girls, a local home for orphans and forgotten children found in the city's slums. There, Winny learns she will join other boys and girls in a faraway place called Canada, where families eagerly await them. But when they arrive, their dream of a better life is quickly shattered. Winny is separated from Mary and Jack and sent to live with a family who doesn't want another daughter, but an indentured servant to work on their farm. Faced with this harsh new reality, Winny clings to the hope that she will someday find her friends again. Inspired by true events, The Forgotten Home Child is a moving and heartbreaking novel about place, belonging, and family--the one we make for ourselves and its enduring power to draw us home."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Home children (Canadian immigrants); Orphans; Orphans; Family secrets;
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Could it happen here? : Canada in the age of Trump and Brexit / by Adams, Michael,1946 Sept. 29-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting the rest of the world. In vote after shocking vote, Western publics have pushed their anger to the top of their countries' political agendas. The votes have varied in their particulars, but their unifying feature has been rejection of moderation, incrementalism, and the status quo. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Americans elected Donald Trump. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch "elites" are gaining ground across Europe. Amid this roiling international scene, Canada appears placid, at least on its surface. As other societies retrench, the international media have taken notice of Canada's welcome of Syrian refugees, its half-female federal cabinet, its acceptance of climate science and mixed efforts to limit its emissions, the absence of a prominent hard-right ethno-nationalist movement. After a year in power, the centrist federal government continues to enjoy majority approval, suggesting an electorate not as bitterly split as the ones to the south or in Europe. As sceptics point out, however, Brexit and a Trump presidency were unthinkable until they happened. Could it be that Canada is not immune to the same forces of populism, social fracture, and backlash that have afflicted other parts? Our largest and most cosmopolitan city elected Rob Ford. Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch proposes a Canadian test for immigrants and has called the Trump victory "exciting." Anti-tax demonstrators in Alberta chanted "lock her up" in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, an elected leader accused of no wrongdoing, only policy positions the protesters disliked. In Could It Happen Here?, pollster and social values researcher Michael Adams takes Canadians into the examining room to see whether we are at risk of coming down with the malaise affecting other Western democracies. Drawing on major social values surveys of Canadians and Americans in 2016--as well as decades of tracking data in both countries--Adams examines our economy, institutions, and demographics to answer the question: could it happen here?"--
Subjects: Demographic surveys; Populism; Social prediction; Social surveys; Social values;
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Let's learn. [videorecording] / by Nickelodeon (Firm); Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); Viacom International.;
Bubble guppies. The crayon prix! -- Dora the explorer. Quack! Quack! -- Team Umizoomi. Kite festival -- Blue's clues. Colors everywhere! -- Wonder pets. Save the moose in the caboose ; Save the flamingo.From painting and drawing to mixing colors, kids will discover the art of color identification with these 6 Nick Jr. play dates.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, full screen presentation ; Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Animated television programs.; Blue (Fictitious character); Children's television programs.; Color; Colors; Dora the Explorer (Fictitious character); Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., Paramount Home Entertainment,
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It's all about the land : collected talks and interviews on Indigenous resurgence / by Alfred, Taiaiake,author.; Palmater, Pamela D.(Pamela Doris),1970-writer of foreword.; Rogers, Ann,editor,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It's All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred explains how the Canadian government's reconciliation agenda is a new form of colonization that is also guaranteed to fail. Bringing together Alfred's speeches and interviews from over the past two decades, the book shows that Indigenous peoples across the world face a stark choice: reconnect with their authentic cultures and values or continue following a slow road to annihilation. Alfred proposes a radical vision for contesting and confronting the ongoing genocide of the original peoples of this land: Indigenous Resurgence. This way of thinking, being, and practising represents an authentic politics that roots resistance in the spirit, knowledge, and laws of the ancestors. Set against the historic arc of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada and drawing on the rich heritage of First Nations resistance movements, It's All about the Land traces the evolution of Indigenous struggle and liberation through the dynamic processes of oratory, dialogue, action, and reflection.
Subjects: Indigenous peoples.; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; First Nations.; First Nations; First Nations; First Nations; First Nations; First Nations; First Nations; First Nations;
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Shetland. [videorecording] / by Henshall, Douglas,1965-actor.; Kane, David,1961-screenwriter.; Logue, Paul,screenwriter.; O'Donnell, Alison,actor.; Robertson, Steven,actor.; television adaptation of (work):Cleeves, Ann.Shetland series.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.,publisher,distributor.; ITV Studios,production company.;
Douglas Henshall, Alison O'Donnell, Steven Robertson.Douglas Henshall returns as DI Jimmy Perez in the latest installment of this acclaimed long-running crime series inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novels. When a severed human hand washes up in a Shetland beach, Perez and his team face a disturbing new investigation. The victim is identified as a young Nigerian man, spotted in Lerwick a few days before, but what was he doing on the island? As Perez edges closer to a sinister truth stretching far beyond Shetland's shores, drawing him into a desperate search for a vulnerable young woman.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Cleeves, Ann.; Criminal investigation; Detectives; Police;
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Not here : why American democracy is eroding and how Canada can protect itself / by Goodman, Rob,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that question will define the next generation of Canadian politics. As a congressional staffer in the United States, Rob Goodman watched firsthand as a rising authoritarian movement disenfranchised voters, sabotaged institutions, and brought America to the brink of a coup. Now, as a political theorist who makes his home in Canada, he has an urgent warning for his adopted country: The same forces that have upended democracy in America and around the world are on the move in Canada, too. But we can protect our democracy by drawing on a set of political, cultural, and historical resources that are distinctly of this place. In Not Here, Goodman outlines four such resources. First, the rejection of the dangerous idea of one "real" Canadian people. Second, the refusal of political charisma and founder-worship. Third, a set of social programs--embattled but still standing--that empower neighbours to see one another as equals. And fourth, Canada's longstanding search for an identity separate from the great power with which it shares a continent. Today, that great power is a democracy in decline, and so defending what makes Canada distinct matters more now than ever before. Canadian difference is not a curiosity, a luxury good, or a vanity item. It is a democratic immune system. Laying bare the historical roots of today's politics and making an urgent case for action, Not Here is a roadmap for safeguarding a democracy under unprecedented threat."--
Subjects: Democracy; Democracy; Political culture; Political culture;
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Gravity [videorecording] / by Bullock, Sandra,actor.; Clooney, George,actor.; Cuarón, Alfonso.; Cuarón, Jonás,screenwriter.; Harris, Ed,voice actor.; Heyman, David,1961-film producer.; Warner Bros. Entertainment.;
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris.Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut and acting space commander Matt Kowalski. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will they survive?Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Astronauts; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Space shuttles; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Women astronauts;
© c2014., Warner Bros. Entertainment,
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Dragons holiday [videorecording] : gift of the night fury / by Baruchel, Jay,1982-voice actor.; Butler, Gerard,1969-voice actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Cowell, Cressida.How to train your dragon.; Ferguson, Craig,1962-voice actor.; Ferrera, America,1984-voice actor.; Hill, Jonah,1983-voice actor.; Lachance, Kate Spencer,film producer.; Miller, T. J.,1981-voice actor.; Mintz-Plasse, Christopher,1989-voice actor.; Owens, Tom,film director.; Wiig, Kristen,1973-voice actor.; DreamWorks Animation,production company.; DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Executive producer, Bonnie Arnold, Dean Deblois ; music, Dominic Lewis, John Powell ; editor, John K. Carr ; screenplay, Adam Goldberg ; supervising animators, Denis Couchna, Sean Mahoney, Jason Reisg ; animators, Manuel Aparicio, Chung Chan.Voices: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig.The Dragons are back in this exciting chapter of Hiccup and Toothless as they take flight in a thrilling, adventure to discover an island of never-before-seen dragons. Explosive action and fire-breathing excitement collide in this exhilarating dragon story.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Fiction films.; Short films.; Christmas films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Cowell, Cressida.; Haddock, Hiccup Horrendous, III (Fictitious character); Dragons; Vikings; Holidays; Christmas;
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