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Teacher of the Year
Mode of access: Internet.
Subjects: News; Local Living;
© , Alberta Newspaper Group
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Franklin and friends. [videorecording] / by Bourgeois, Paulette,creator.; Clark, Brenda,creator.; Nelvana (Firm),production company.; KaBOOM! Entertainment,production company.; Phase 4 Films (Firm),distributor.; Treehouse TV,production company.;
Franklin is upset when Mr. Owl is to be temporarily replaced by a substitute teacher, only to be happily surprised to find out the substitute is his Mom, Mrs. Turtle.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, full screen presentation.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Franklin (Fictitious character : Bourgeois); Friendship; Substitute teachers; Teacher-student relationships; Turtles;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Molly Maxwell [videorecording] / by Bridges, Krista.; Carrick, Charlie.; Clarkin, Richard.; St. Onge, Sara.; Stewart, Rob.; Tash, Lola.; CFC Features.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Movie Central (Firm); Movie Network.;
Lola Tash, Charlie Carrick, Krista Bridges, Rob Stewart, Richard Clarkin.At Phoenix Progressive School, where everyone tries to outdo each other with creative self-expression, 16-year-old Molly Maxwell (Lola Tash) would rather be invisible than risk revealing herself as completely ordinary. When her young, handsome, disillusioned English teacher (Charlie Carrick) enters the picture and allows her to just be herself, Molly is suddenly able to flourish. As their student-teacher bond becomes more intimate, she begins putting herself on the line in unexpected ways while pursuing what she wants. But with each awkward, beautiful step towards an impossible romance, Molly risks alienating everyone she loves.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Love; Man-woman relationships; Teacher-student relationships; Teenage girls;
© c2013., Entertainment One,
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The skeleton twins [videorecording] / by Hader, Bill,1978-; Heyman, Mark.; Johnson, Craig.; Wiig, Kristen,1973-; Wilson, Luke,1971-; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm); Roadside Attractions (Firm);
Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, Boyd Holbrook.Craig Johnson's drama The Skeleton Twins stars Saturday Night Live alumni Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as suicidal siblings Milo and Maggie. After Milo cuts his wrists, Maggie moves him into her home in New York where she lives with her husband (Luke Wilson). Both brother and sister are dealing with severe emotional issues stemming from their own father's suicide, as well as their absent mother. While back in his hometown, Milo reconnects with a former lover (Ty Burrell) who was also his high-school English teacher. Meanwhile, Maggie has concerns about becoming a mother, and can't keep herself from cheating on her husband with her SCUBA instructor.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen, 5.1 Dolby digital.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Feature films.; Reunions; Suicidal behavior; Twins; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Roadside Attractions ; Dostributed by Lions Gate Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The teacher of Warsaw : a novel / by Escobar, Mario,1971-author.; Abernathy, Gretchen,translator.; translation of:Escobar, Mario,1971-Maestro.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945;
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The Stephen King companion : forty years of fear from the master of horror / by Beahm, George, W.; Chadbourne, Glenn.; Whelan, Michael,1950-;
Includes bibliographical references.Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 photos, color illustrations by celebrated "Dark Tower" artist Michael Whelan, and black-and-white drawings by Maine artist Glenn Chadbourne; supplemented with interviews with friends, colleagues, and mentors who knew King well; looking at King's formative years in Durham, when he began writing fiction as a young teen, his college years in the turbulent sixties, his struggles with early poverty, working full-time as an English teacher while writing part-time, the long road to the publication of his first novel, Carrie, and the dozens of bestselling books and major screen adaptations that followed; covering his varied and prodigious output--this book is a comprehensive guide to the imaginative world of Stephen King.
Subjects: King, Stephen, 1947-; Whelan, Michael, 1950-; Horror tales, American;
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My dark Vanessa : a novel / by Russell, Kate Elizabeth,author.;
Seventeen years ago, bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye became entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. Now, amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager, and who professed to worship only her, may be far different from what she has always believed?
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Sex crimes; Teacher-student relationships; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Children make terrible pets [videorecording] / by Brown, Peter,1979-Children make terrible pets.Videorecording.; Eiden, Emily.; Gagne, Paul R.,1956-; Reilly, Melissa.; Sundrud, Jack.; Trexler, David.; Young, Rusty.; Scholastic Inc.; Soup2Nuts (Firm); Weston Woods Studios.;
Animation, Soup2Nuts ; editor, Jonathan Slyker ; music, Jack Sundrud & Rusty Young.Narration & vocals: Emily Eiden.When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods, she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train.G.
Subjects: Brown, Peter, 1979-; Animated films.; Bears; Children's films.; Families; Feature films.; Missing children; Pets; Responsibility; Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2011., Weston Woods Studios,
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Won't back down [videorecording] / by Barnz, Daniel,1966-; Davis, Viola,1965-; Gyllenhaal, Maggie,1977-; Hunter, Holly,1958-; Isaac, Oscar.; Perez, Rosie.; Rhames, Ving,1961-; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Walden Media.;
Music by Marcelo Zarvos ; cinematography, Roman Osin ; edited by Kristina Boden.Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oscar Isaac, Rosie Perez, Ving Rhames.Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Female friendship; Mothers and daughters; Teacher-student relationships; Urban schools; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., 20th Century Fox,
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My dark Vanessa [sound recording] : a novel / by Russell, Kate(Kate Elizabeth),author.; Gummer, Grace,1986-narrator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Grace Gummer.Seventeen years ago, bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye became entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. Now, amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager, and who professed to worship only her, may be far different from what she has always believed?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Sex crimes; Teacher-student relationships; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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