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Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / by Drury, Bob,author.; Clavin, Thomas,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, The French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure and the guide to this epic narrative is none other than America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder Daniel Boone-not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier" that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.; Explorers; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life; Pioneers; Indigenous peoples;

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Bridge of spies [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Alda, Alan,1936-actor.; Hanks, Tom,actor.; Newman, Thomas,1955-; Rylance, Mark,actor.; Spielberg, Steven,1946-director,producer.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm);

Camera, Janusz Kaminski ; editor, Michael Kahn ; music, Thomas Newman ; production designer, Adam Stockhausen.Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, Eve Hewson.Bridge of Spies tells the story of James Donovan (Tom Hanks), a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on a near impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot. High stakes and suspense power a story inspired by true events that capture the essence of a man who risked everything and vividly brings his personal journey to life.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1.

Subjects: Donovan, James B (James Britt), 1916-1970; Biographical films.; Cold War; Feature films.; Historical films.; Prisoners of war; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.;

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The Sopranos. [videorecording] / by Bracco, Lorraine,1955-; Chianese, Dominic,1931-; Coulter, Allen.; Falco, Edie.; Gandolfini, James.; Iler, Robert.; Imperioli, Michael,1966-; Pastore, Vincent.; Patterson, John.; Sigler, Jamie-Lynn,1981-; Sirico, Tony.; Van Zandt, Steve.; Brad Grey Television Productions.; HBO Video (Firm);

Disc 1. Mr. Ruggerio's neighborhood -- Proshai, Livushka -- Fortunate son -- Employee of the month.Disc 2. Another toothpick -- University -- Second opinion.Disc 3. He is risen -- The telltale moozadell -- To save us all from Satan's power.Disc 4. Pine barrens -- Amour fou -- The army of one.James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Vincent Pastore, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Siricio, Robert Iler, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Drea de Matteo.Tony Soprano is a middle-class businessman with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's also a mob boss.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; full screen presentation.

Subjects: Gangsters; Italian Americans; Mafia; Mafiosi; Organized crime; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

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Lush / by Dowden-Lord, Rochelle,author.;

"For readers of Sweetbitter and The Paris Novel, an intoxicating debut novel set in the glamorous, exclusive, and unexpectedly raucous world of wine. Four wine experts receive a mysterious invitation to an exclusive weekend tasting at a famous French vineyard. Avery is a cash-strapped sommelier and wine social media influencer; Sonny, a rich American who owns a popular but unimpressive wine brand; Maëlys, a French food and drink critic; and Cosmo, a sommelier who is one of the youngest Masters in the world. It seems at first that these four have little in common except for their love of wine and their belief in its transformative power. But, as the quartet awaits the penultimate night of the trip, when they will taste the only bottle of one of the rarest wines in the world, it becomes clear that each of them grapples with a private crisis and projects their ultimate hopes and fears onto the contents of this bottle, a bottle rendered divine by age and scarcity. Unfolding over several days of indulgence in delicious food and drink, raucous debauchery, and transformative truths that will leave each character changed forever, Lush is a sensuous tour of the wine industry's extreme pleasures and pains, a captivating summer read that, like a fine vintage, will linger long after you've finished turning the pages"--

Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Wineries;

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Beasts of the southern wild [videorecording] / by Alibar, Lucy.; Alibar, Lucy.Juicy and delicious.Videorecording.; Easterly, Levy.; Gottwald, Michael.; Henry, Dwight.; Janvey, Dan.; Penn, Josh.; Romer, Dan.; Wallis, Quvenzhané.; Zeitlin, Benh.; Cinereach (Firm); Court 13 (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);

Director of photography, Ben Richardson ; edited by Crockett Doob, Affonso Gonçalves ; music by Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin.Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper.Hushpuppy is a tenacious six-year-old force of nature in an isolated bayou community. When her tough but loving father Wink succumbs to a mysterious malady, the fierce and determined girl bravely sets out on a journey to save him. But Hushpuppy's quest is hindered by a "busted" universe that melts the ice caps and unleashes an army of prehistoric beasts.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, NTSC, dual layer; widescreen presentation 1.85:1; Dolby digital 5.1.

Subjects: African American families; Animals, Fossil; Climatic changes; Fantasy films.; Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Floods; Marginality, Social;

© c2012., Cinereach ; Distributed by Entertainment One,

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Breaking bad. [videorecording] / by Banks, Jonathan,1947-; Cranston, Bryan,1956-; Gilligan, Vince.; Gunn, Anna,1968-; Norris, Dean.; Paul, Aaron,1979-; American Movie Classics Company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Television.;

Disc 1. Live free or die -- Madrigal -- Hazard pay.Disc 2. Fifty one -- Dead freight -- Buyout.Disc 3. Say my name -- Gliding over all.Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Jonathan Banks, Dean Norris.Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul return in their Emmy winning roles of meth cooks Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the fifth explosive season of Breaking Bad. With Gus Fring dead, Walt's transformation from a well-meaning family man to a ruthless drug kingpin is nearly complete. Forming a partnership with Jesse and Mike (Jonathan Banks), Walt proceeds to make a killing until the fruits of his murderous schemes are threatened by a new development in the investigation led by Hank.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, NTSC ; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Subjects: Cancer patients; Chemistry teachers; Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Ice (Drug); Methamphetamine; Television programs.; Terminally ill; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

© c2013., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,

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The new internationals : a novel / by Wright Faladé, David,1964-author.;

"A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history. Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and war-weary population, American GIs and young people from France's colonies also pack the city. Cecile Rosenbaum, from a bourgeois Jewish family that has lost everything, meets Minette Traoré, a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent, on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There, she also meets Sebastien Danxomè, an aspiring architecture student from West Africa, and romance blooms. Back in Paris, as these young internationals haunt the cafés and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter, Cecile and Sebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. When Mack Gray, a charming African American GI, sets his sights on Cecile, her complicated relationship with Sebastien, as well as her fierce dedication to her newfound political ideologies, are pushed to the brink. Nuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, The New Internationals chronicles the postwar awakening and the young women and men who rose up-and came together-in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment, trying to imagine a better world"--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; African American soldiers; African Americans; Ideology; Imperialism; Interpersonal relations; Interracial dating; Jews; Political participation; Race relations; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);

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Fake truth / by Goldberg, Lee,1962-author.;

Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures ... but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the United States, he becomes the accidental hero of a real-life espionage thriller. Now he's stuck with the actress--and suffering a nasty case of writer's block--when he stumbles into a secret Russian plot using "fake news" to outrage Americans into believing a terrifying lie. It's up to Ian and Margo French, his researcher-turned-spy, to discover the connection between a barbaric drug lord in Mexico, a homicidal maniac in California, a rogue citizen army in Texas, a raging TV pundit in New York, and two dead tourists in Portugal ... before the president of the United States makes a catastrophic mistake that could resurrect the Soviet Union. The only weapon Ian has against the global conspiracy, and the assassins who are closing in on him, is his vivid imagination. If his story isn't a killer thriller, he's dead.

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Ludlow, Ian, 1962-; Authors; Spies; Assassins; Conspiracies; Fake news;

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Breaking bad. [videorecording] / by Banks, Jonathan,1947-; Cranston, Bryan,1956-; Gilligan, Vince.; Gunn, Anna,1968-; Norris, Dean.; Paul, Aaron,1979-; American Movie Classics Company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Television.;

Disc 1. Blood Money -- Buried -- Confessions.Disc 2. Rabid Dog -- To'hajiilee -- Ozymandias.Disc 3. Granite State -- Felina.Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Jonathan Banks, Dean Norris.It all ends with a bang! In the final episodes, Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul bring the saga of Breaking Bad to a bloody conclusion in their roles as meth kingpin Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner Jesse Pinkman. As each tries to get clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of Heisenberg' gains steam, leading up to a shattering finale that will leave no one in Walt's world unscathed. Executive Produced by Vince Gilligan, Mark Johnson and Michelle MacLaren, the final episodes bring the unforgettable story of Walter White to its inevitable close.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, NTSC ; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Subjects: Cancer patients; Chemistry teachers; Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Ice (Drug); Methamphetamine; Television programs.; Terminally ill; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

© c2013., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,

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The message / by Coates, Ta-Nehisi,author.;

"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories - our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking - expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist - and named for Nubian pharaoh - Coates had never set foot on the African continent until now. He roams the "steampunk" city of "old traditions and new machinery," meeting with strangers and dining with local writers who quiz him in French about African American politics. But everywhere he goes he feels as if he's in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and a mythic kingdom in his mind, the pan-African homeland he was raised to believe was the origin and destiny for all black people. Finally he travels to the slave castles off the coast and touches the ocean that carried his ancestors away in chains - and has his own reckoning with the legacy of the Afrocentric dream. Back in the USA he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he explores a different mythology, this one enforced on its subjects by the state. He enters the world of the teacher whose job is threatened for teaching one of Coates's own books and discovers a community of mostly white supporters who were transformed and even radicalized by the stories they discovered in the "racial reckoning" of 2020. But he also explores the backlash to this reckoning and the deeper myths and stories of the community - a capital of the confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over the its public squares. In Palestine, the longest of the essays, he discovers the devastating gap between the narratives we've accepted and the clashing reality of life on the ground. He meets with activists and dissidents, Israelis and Palestinians - the old, who remember their dispossessions on two continents, and the young who have only known struggle and disillusionment. He travels into Jerusalem, the heart of Zionist mythology, and to the occupied territories, where he sees the reality the myth is meant to hide. It is this hidden story that draws him in and profoundly changes him - and makes the war that would soon come all the more devastating"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Coates, Ta-Nehisi; African American journalists; Journalists;

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