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Fake like me / by Bourland, Barbara,author.;
"After a fire decimates her studio, including the seven billboard-size paintings for her next show, a young, no-name painter is left with an impossible task: recreate her art in three months--or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into an exclusive retreat in upstate New York famous for its outrageous revelries and glamorous artists. And notorious as the place where brilliant young artist Carey Logan drowned in the lake. As the young painter works obsessively in Carey's former studio, uncovers strange secrets and starts to fall--hard and fast--for Carey's mysterious boyfriend, it's as if she's taking her place. But one thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Painters;
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Old flame / by Prentiss, Molly,author.;
"Emily writes for women's catalogs for a living, but she'd rather be writing books. She has a handsome photographer boyfriend, but she actively wonders how and when they will eventually hurt each other. Her best work friend Megan is her lifeline, until Megan is abruptly laid off. When her world is further upended by an unplanned pregnancy, Emily is forced to make tough decisions that will change her life forever. What will she sacrifice from her old life to make room for a new one? What fires will she be forced to extinguish, and which will keep burning? Old Flame is a story about the essential--and often existential--choices that define a woman's life at every level, from which dress to wear to when to have a child to how to be in the world"--
Subjects: Feminist fiction.; Novels.; Self-realization in women; Unplanned pregnancy;
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The power of trees : how ancient forests can save us if we let them / by Wohlleben, Peter,1964-author.; Billinghurst, Jane,1958-translator.; translation of:Wohlleben, Peter,1964-Lange Atem der Bäume.English.; David Suzuki Institute.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."As human-caused climate change devastates the planet, forests play a critical role in keeping it habitable. While politicians and business leaders would have us believe that cutting down forests can be offset by mass tree planting, Wohlleben offers a warning: many tree planting campaigns lead to ecological disaster. Not only are these trees more susceptible to disease, flooding, fires, and landslides, we need to understand that forests are more than simply a collection of trees. Instead, they are ecosystems that consist of thousands of species, from animals to fungi and bacteria. The way to save trees, and ourselves? Step aside and let forests--which are naturally better equipped to face environmental challenges--heal themselves."--
Subjects: Forest conservation.; Forest ecology.; Old growth forest conservation.; Old growth forest ecology.; Trees;
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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum / by Hylton, Antonia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations. As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America's evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. During its peak years, the hospital's wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America's new focus. In Madness, Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system. It is a captivating and heartbreaking meditation on how America decides who is sick or criminal, and who is worthy of our care or irredeemable"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Crownsville State Hospital; African Americans; African Americans; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospitals; Racism in medicine.;
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The golden girls. [videorecording] / by Arthur, Beatrice.; White, Betty,1922-; McClanahan, Rue.; Getty, Estelle.; Touchstone Home Video (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty.The girls return for another side-splitting season of this Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning comedy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, dual-layer format; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereophonic.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Roommates; Divorced women; Widows; Older women; Female friendship;
For private home use only.
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The Dark Knight [videorecording (DVD)] / by Bale, Christian,1974-; Caine, Michael.; Curnen, Monique Gabriela.; Dean, Ron.; Eckhart, Aaron.; Freeman, Morgan.; Goyer, David S.; Gyllenhaal, Maggie,1977-; Howard, James Newton.; Kane, Bob.; Ledger, Heath,1979-2008.; Murphy, Cillian,1974-; Nolan, Christopher,1970-; Nolan, Jonathan.; Oldman, Gary.; Roven, Charles.; Thomas, Emma.; Zimmer, Hans.; DC Comics, Inc.; Legendary Pictures.; Syncopy (Firm); Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Director of photography, Wally Pfister ; editor, Lee Smith ; original music, James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer.Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Ron Dean, Cillian Murphy.With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. The Joker, whose eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman morality makes him dangerous. Batman seeks to stop the mysterious Joker at all costs. He has no method at all and seeks to see the world plunge into the fire he has yet to light. But, Batman has come to represents the symbol of hope.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Adventure films.; Batman (Fictitious character); Batman films.; Criminal behavior; Criminal investigation; Feature films.; Joker (Fictitious character); Superhero films.;
© c2008., Warner Home Video,
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Where I come from : stories from the deep South / by Bragg, Rick,author.; Bragg, Rick.Essays.Selections.;
"A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pick-up truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife, Where I Come From is an ode to the stories and the history of the deep south, written with tenderness, wit, and deep affection--a book that will be treasured by fans old and new"--
Subjects: Biographies.;
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Lady from Louisiana [videorecording] / by Caspary, Vera,1899-1987.; Endore, S. Guy,1900-1970.; Hogan, Michael,1893-1977.; Middleton, Ray.; Munson, Ona,1906-1955.; Vorhaus, Bernard.; Wayne, John,1907-1979.; Olive Films.; Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927); Republic Entertainment Inc.; Republic Pictures Corporation.;
Original story by Edward James and Francis Faragoh ; photography, Jack Marta ; film editor, Edward Mann ; musical director, Cy Feuer.John Wayne (John Reynolds), Ona Munson (Julie Mirbeau), Ray Middleton (Blackie Williams), Henry Stephenson (General Mirbeau), Helen Westley (Mrs. Brunot).John Reynolds and Julie Mirbeau meet and fall in love on a Mississippi river boat en route to New Orleans. There he learns she is General Mirbeau's daughter, owner of the lottery, and she learns he is the laywer hired to stop the lottery. Mirbeau discovers that Blackie Williams, who is his lieutenant and who has designs on Julie, is stealing the lottery money and fires him, but is murdered by Blackie's men. John obtains the lottery records and rounds up everyone involved including Julie. While in court, a storm strikes and the levee gives way. Blackie escapes aboard a steamer, but John forces the captain to plug the gap in order to save Julie, trapped on the levee. Blackie drowns and John and Julie wed.PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Feature films.; Gangsters; Levees; Lotteries; Murder;
© c2013., Republic Pictures Corporation : Distributed by Olive Films,
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Machine vendetta / by Reynolds, Alastair,1966-author.;
Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization? As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries got a little too personal, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the inquiry by proxy. In using her, did Dreyfus also put her in the line of fire? And what does Tench's attack tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Death; Murder; Police; Space colonies; Vendetta;
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Give me your hand [sound recording] / by Abbott, Megan E.,1971-author.; Cannon, Chloe,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Chloe Cannon.Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship ... until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet: taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol. Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Secrecy; Women scientists; Female friendship;
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