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The wife's tale : a personal history / by Aida Edemariam,author.;
"One remarkable woman--caught in the tumult of an extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history. Told by her granddaughter, Canadian journalist Aida Edemariam, Yetemegnu's story is of courage, struggle and survival. The wife's tale has the sweep and lyrical power that captivated readers of Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, and of Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family. Born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar in about 1916, and a child bride at eight years old, Aida Edemariam's grandmother once stood, shaking, as fascists searched her home for guns she knew were there; in the late 1930s and early 1940s she fled both Italian and Allied bombardment. When her husband was imprisoned, in the 1950s, Yetemegnu--a woman who had hardly left her own compound for three decades--managed to gain audiences with Emperor Haile Selassie I in Addis Ababa, to argue for justice, for revenge, and for the futures of her seven children. Widowed, she fought for thirteen years through courts unaccustomed to a woman determined to defend her assets. A feudal landlord herself, she felt the first tremors of the coming revolution, then, in the early 1970s, watched it burst into flower: night after night she listened, praying desperately, to the firing squads of the Red Terror doing their work next door, and endured yet more soldiers tramping through her home. In her sixties she learned to read, and eventually made a longed-for pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Told from Yetemegnu's own point of view, The wife's tale features a rich cast of characters--emperors and empresses, archbishops and slaves, priests and scholars, monks and nuns, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents. But above all, there is Yetemegnu herself, grand and haughty and sometimes difficult but also vulnerable and incredibly generous and who, despite everything--the toil, the deaths, the cruelties and the many, many tears--retains an infectious sense of mischief and joy."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Yetemegnu Mekonnen.; Women;
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Reign. [videorecording] / by Sinden, Celina,actor.; Parker, Craig,1970-actor.; Kane, Adelaide,1990-actor.; Follows, Megan,actor.; CBS Studios, Inc.,publisher.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Celina Sinden, Craig Parker, Rose Williams, Jonathan Keltz, Ben Geurens, Dan Jeannotte, Jonathan Goad, Spencer MacPherson, Will Kemp.The fourth and final season finds Mary rising to the challenge, taking back her country and establishing her rule in Scotland, the land of her birth but a wild nation foreign to her, and now, once again, her home. There will be impossibly high stakes, unexpected betrayals, sexual exploits, a royal wedding, a royal birth and a rising body count as three queens in three nations fight for their people, their loves, and their lives.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Francis II, King of France, 1544-1560; Nostradamus, 1503-1566; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587; Princes; Queens;
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Humankind : a hopeful history / by Bregman, Rutger,1988-author.; Manton, Elizabeth,translator.; Moore, Erica,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."If one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman's thinking, it is that every progressive idea -- whether it was the abolition of slavery, the advent of democracy, women's suffrage, or the ratification of marriage equality -- was once considered radical and dangerous by the mainstream opinion of its time. With Humankind, he brings that mentality to bear against one of our most entrenched ideas: namely, that human beings are by nature selfish and self-interested. By providing a new historical perspective of the last 200,000 years of human history, Bregman sets out to prove that we are in fact evolutionarily wired for cooperation rather than competition, and that our instinct to trust each other has a firm evolutionary basis going back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. Bregman systematically debunks our understanding of the Milgram electrical-shock experiment, the Zimbardo prison experiment, and the Kitty Genovese "bystander effect." In place of these, he offers little-known true stories: the tale of twin brothers on opposing sides of apartheid in South Africa who came together with Nelson Mandela to create peace; a group of six shipwrecked children who survived for a year and a half on a deserted island by working together; a study done after World War II that found that as few as 15% of American soldiers were actually capable of firing at the enemy. The ultimate goal of Humankind is to demonstrate that while neither capitalism nor communism has on its own been proven to be a workable social system, there is a third option: giving "citizens and professionals the means (left) to make their own choices (right)." Reorienting our thinking toward positive and high expectations of our fellow man, Bregman argues, will reap lasting success. Bregman presents this idea with his signature wit and frankness, once again making history, social science and economic theory accessible and enjoyable for lay readers"--
Subjects: Human beings.; Philosophical anthropology.; Human behavior.; Civilization; World history.;
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Cobra Kai. [videorecording] / by Henggeler, Courtney,1978-actor.; Hurwitz, Jon,1977-screenwriter,television director.; Kamen, Robert Mark,creator.; Macchio, Ralph,1961-actor.; Schlossberg, Hayden,1978-screenwriter,film director.; Zabka, William,1965-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña, Tanner Buchanan.Originally broadcast on television 2018-2019.Follows the lives of Daniel LaRusso and his high-school adversary, Johnny Lawrence, when the latter decides to reopen the Cobra Kai karate dojo over thirty years after the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure television programs.; Television programs.; Martial arts television programs.; Karate; Martial artists; Martial arts schools; Martial arts; Revenge; Sports rivalries; Sports tournaments;
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Love's Christmas journey [videorecording] / by Astin, Sean.; Borgnine, Ernest,1917-2012.; Cass, David S.; Hall, Natalie.; Shaughnessy, Charles,1955-; Tierne, George.; Vaughan, Greg,1973-; Williams, JoBeth.; Larry Levinson Productions.; PIXL Entertainement (Firm); RHI Entertainment, Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Music by Nathan Furst ; director of photography, Maximo Munzi ; edited by David Urbina.Ernest Borgnine, Jobeth Williams, Sean Astin, Charles Shaughnessy, Greg Vaughan, Natalie Hall.Still mourning the loss of her family, Ellie agrees to watch her brother's children when he has to leave town. When a fire is set, Ellie works with a handsome deputy to clear a friends name and learns that if she can trust her faith, this Christmas may bring more miracles than she hoped.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Christian life; Christmas television programs.; Christmas; Davis family (Fictitious characters : Oke); Frontier and pioneer life; Holidays; Made-for-TV movies.; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Romance television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Widows;
© c2012., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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The river : a novel / by Heller, Peter,1959-author.;
From Peter Heller, the bestselling author of 'The Dog Stars', comes a masterful tale of wilderness survival in the vein of 'Into the Wild' and 'The Call of the Wild'. 'The River' is a story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip in northern Canada - a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, starvation, and brutality.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Canoes and canoeing; Wildfires; Wilderness survival;
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Murderland : Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers. by Fraser, Caroline.;
'Murderland' is a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond - a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence. From the author of 'Prairie Fires', which won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA); TRUE CRIME / Historical; TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers;
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Covert affairs. [videorecording] / by Gorham, Christopher,1974-actor.; Matchett, Kari,actor.; Perabo, Piper,actor.; Ramamurthy, Sendhil,1974-actor.; Universal Cable Productions,production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Hill Harper, Peter Gallagher, Gregory Itzin.Annie Walker is a young CIA operative whose exceptional linguistic skills and spot on instincts make her invaluable to the Agency. In season three, Annie takes on missions that become personal and finds herself on dangerous forays into inhospitable territory, while a series of explosive relevations forces her to question her role and what matters most.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby digital 5.1 DVS, 2.0 ; widescreen (1.78:1).
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Undercover operations; Work-life balance;
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Random Road : introducing Geneva Chase / by Kies, Thomas,author.;
"It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper. The Sheffield Post headline shouts, "Cops Call Murder Scene Slaughterhouse." On the scene, Genie spurs the Deputy Police Chief to tell her quietly, "Six bodies ... all nude ... hacked to pieces." Even tough Geneva shivers. How could such a slaughter happen on Connecticut's moneyed Gold Coast? To privileged couples inside a historic 1898 Queen Anne mansion on the shoreline of Long Island Sound? Where is the protection afforded by the gated community and the security technology in place? For Geneva, battling alcoholism and bad choices, writing this story is the last chance to redeem herself. She's lost every other major news job she's had. Working at her hometown newspaper is the end of the line - there will be nowhere else to go. But ink still flows thick in her veins. Her story on Sheffield's unlikely killing field is the Post's lead, soon picked up by metro papers, and she keeps it there, exposing the turbulence beneath the rich and entitleds' secrets, their ability to buy off embarrassments. She's also tracking community connections, watching a hit-and-run case disappear through a large donation, interviewing dangerous suspects, visiting a swingers' club, joining cops for a burglary bust, and taking a guided tour to spot history's underwater ghost. All this despite the distractions of the married man she can't quite ditch and the sweet-if-shaky love affair she starts with an old high school sweetheart. Can she keep her drinking under control and do her job well enough to keep from getting fired, finish the story, not further screw up her life? And not get killed? Thomas Kies' gripping first novel with its corkscrew of a plot, asks, "Do things happen for a reason, or is everything random?""--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women journalists; Murder; Recovering alcoholics; Rich people;
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Mégantic : a deadly mix of oil, rail, and avarice / by Saint-Cerny, Anne-Marie,1954-author.; translation of:Saint-Cerny, Anne-Marie,1954-Mégantic.English.; Wilson, W. Donald,1938-translator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada--July 6, 2013. During a hot summer night, a driverless, out-of-control train, firing explosive crude-oil bombs, descends the slope that leads to the scenic town below, pulverizing the downtown area, charring forty-seven trapped victims. The devastation leaves the people dazed ... but is quickly the object of an intentional and tortuous cover-up. Who are the tragedy's real culprits? How did the accident lead to the brutal death of forty-seven people, the suicides of several others, and the devastation of a whole community? Who took control of the crime scene? Who carried out the reconstruction, and for whose good? In this fascinating piece of investigative journalism, written like a thriller, Saint-Cerny reveals the inner workings of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. She reveals how the tragedy, far from being just the "error of a faulty system," was knowingly caused by powerful people and institutions distant from the town itself. Iconic in more ways than one, Lac-Mégantic is a perfect capitalist tale. Conceived in the offices of Wall Street hedge funders, of Dakota black-gold cowboy magnates, of oil conglomerates, and set up by a political class entirely devoted to the interests of the rail industry, the disaster hit a population which, while still in shock, found itself at the mercy of local predators--the perfect illustration of Naomi Klein's shock doctrine. Despite everything, the transport of crude oil and dangerous products today has increased so much that it constitutes the rail industry's main source of profit. But the Government of Canada stubbornly refuses to shed light on the 2013 tragedy and identify its causes. The fruit of five years of work and interviews with nearly a hundred people from various backgrounds, including victims and their relatives, Mégantic: A Tragedy in Waiting, tells the story of the disaster in three acts--before, during, and after--in an investigation whose ultimate goal is to prevent the preventable."--
Subjects: Disaster victims; Lac-Mégantic Derailment, Lac-Mégantic, Québec, 2013.; Railroad accidents;
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