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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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100,000+ baby names : the most helpful, complete, & up-to-date name book / by Lansky, Bruce,author.;

"What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including: Hundreds of newly popular names and variations; The latest list of top 100 names for boys and girls; The latest naming trends: what's hot and what's not; The most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names; Updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly famous people and fictional characters; The most popular gender-neutral names and their rates of use (more for boys, more for girls, or 50/50); New (and classic) celebrity baby names. And our list of names from around the world keeps growing! Here you'll find more than 100,000 names -- complete with origins, meanings, variations, and famous namesakes. You'll find names from major linguistic and ethnic groups of origin, including English (19,000 names), Latin (11,000 names), Greek (11,000 names), American (11,000 names), Hebrew (9,000 names), Hispanic (9,000 names), French (8,000 names), Irish (7,000 names), and German (6,000 names) -- plus thousands of Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Scandinavian, Polish, Native American, Hawaiian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Australian/Aboriginal, African, and Hindi names. The list features unique spellings of popular names that are catching on, plus newly popular names and variations not listed in other books and websites. This book will help you choose a name that you and your baby will love!"--

Subjects: Dictionaries.; Names, Personal; Names;

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Red metal / by Greaney, Mark,author.; Rawlings, Hunter Ripley,1971-author.;

"A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon who, along with his German counterpart, fight from behind enemy lines in Germany all the way into Russia. From a daring MiG attack on American satellites, through land and air battles in all theaters, naval battles in the Arabian sea, and small unit fighting down to the hand-to-hand level in the jungle, Russia's forces battle to either take the mines or detonate a nuclear device to prevent the West from exploiting them"--Amazon.com.

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); War fiction.; Imaginary wars and battles; Battles; Battles; Adventure stories;

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Mayans M.C. [videorecording] / by Sutter, Kurt,screenwriter,creator.; Pardo, J. D.,actor.; Cardenas, Clayton,actor.; Irby, Michael,actor.; Trujillo, Raoul,actor.; Cabral, Richard,1984-actor.; Bolger, Sarah,1991-actor.; Jaramillo, Antonio,1964-actor.; Olmos, Edward James,actor.; FX Productions,production company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.;

J. D. Pardo, Clayton Cardenas, Michael Irby, Raoul Max Trujillo, Richard Cabral, Sarah Bolger, Antonio Jaramillo, Danny Pino, Edward James Olmos, Carla Baratta.Kurt Sutter's much-anticipated spin-off/follow-up to "Sons of Anarchy" for FX puts its focus on SAMCRO's bitterest rivals, the border-riding, cartel muscle-providing Mayans motorcycle club. While prospect ex-con Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes (J.D. Pardo) is vouched for by his full patch brother Angel (Clayton Cardenas), the gang and their cartel allies are leery of his true agenda.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Motorcycle clubs; Hispanic Americans; Motorcycle gangs; Motorcyclists; Criminals;

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Minari [videorecording] / by Han, Ye-ri,1984-actor.; Yun, Yŏ-jŏng,1947-actor.; Cho, Noel Kate,actor.; Chung, Lee Isaac,1978-film director,screenwriter.; Cox, Darryl,1955-actor.; Gardner, Dede,film producer.; Haze, Scott,actor.; Kim, Alan S.,2012-actor.; Kleiner, Jeremy,film producer.; Milne, Lachlan,director of photography.; Mosseri, Emile(Composer),composer (expression); Oh, Christina,film producer.; Patton, Will,actor.; Yeun, Steven,actor.; Yoon, Harry,1971-editor of moving image work.; A24 (Firm),presenter.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; Plan B (Firm),production company.;

Director of photography, Lachlan Milne ; editor, editor, Harry Yoon ; music, Emile Mosseri.Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim, Darryl Cox, Esther Moon, Will Patton, Tina Parker, Yuh-Jung Youn, Noel Kate Cho.A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13 (some thematic elements and a rude gesture).Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Coming-of-age films.; Families; Farms; Grandmothers; Korean Americans;

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Lincoln [videorecording] / by Day-Lewis, Daniel.; Field, Sally.; Goodwin, Doris Kearns.Team of rivals.Videorecording.; Gordon-Levitt, Joseph,1981-; Haley, Jackie Earle,1961-; Harris, Jared,1961-; Hawkes, John,1959-; Holbrook, Hal.; Jones, Tommy Lee,1946-; Spader, James.; Spielberg, Steven,1946-; Strathairn, David.; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Dreamworks Pictures.; Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm);

Music by John Williams ; director of photography, Janusz Kaminski ; edited by Michael Kahn.Sally Field, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hawkes, Jared Harris, David Strathairn.A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (2.40:1 ; 16x9) presentation; 5.1 Dolby digital, 2.0 Dolby digital.Described video for the visually impaired.

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882; Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872; Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).; African Americans; Biographical films.; Cabinet officers; Feature films.; Historical films.; Slavery;

© c2013., DreamWorks Pictures,

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Argo [videorecording] / by Affleck, Ben,1972-; Arkin, Alan.; Bearman, Joshuah.Great escapeVideorecording.; Cranston, Bryan,1956-; Donovan, Tate.; Du Vall, Clea.; Garber, Victor.; Goodman, John,1952-; McNairy, Scoot.; Mendez, Antonio J.Master of disguiseVideorecording.; GK Films (Los Angeles, Calif.); Smokehouse Pictures (Firm); Warner Bros. Entertainment.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Music by Alexandre Desplat ; director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; edited by William Goldenberg.Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, John Goodman, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy.On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback); widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; DTS HD 5.1 surround.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.

Subjects: Mendez, Antonio J.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Diplomats; Feature films.; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Motion pictures; Thrillers (Motion pictures);

© c2013., Warner Home Video,

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Love actually [videorecording] / by Bevan, Tim.; Fellner, Eric.; Kenworthy, Duncan.; Curtis, Richard,1956-; Firth, Colin,1960-; Neeson, Liam.; Thompson, Emma.; Ejiofor, Chiwetel,1977-; Lincoln, Andrew,1973-; Knightley, Keira,1985-; Grant, Hugh.; McCutcheon, Martine.; Linney, Laura.; Sangster, Thomas,1990-; Rickman, Alan.; Santoro, Rodrigo,1975-; Universal Pictures (Firm); Working Title Films.; DNA Films.; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm);

Director of photography, Michael Coulter ; editor, Nick Moore ; music, Craig Armstrong ; costume designer, Joanna Johnston ; production designer, Jim Clay.Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Laura Linney, Thomas Sangster, Alan Rickman, Rodrigo Santoro.It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation.

Subjects: Romantic comedy films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Christmas; Prime ministers; Romances; Widowers; Married people;

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Her lotus year : China, the roaring twenties, and the making of Wallis Simpson / by French, Paul,1966-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor -- her one year in China. Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl "Win" Spencer, a US Navy aviator. From humble beginnings in Baltimore, she rose to marry a man who gave up his throne for her. But what made Wallis Spencer, Navy Wife, the woman who could become the Duchess of Windsor? The answers lie in her one-year sojourn in China. In her memoirs, Wallis described her time in China as her "Lotus Year," referring to Homer's Lotus Eaters, a group living in a state of dreamy forgetfulness, never to return home. Though faced with challenges, Wallis came to appreciate traditional Chinese aesthetics. China molded her in terms of her style and provided her with friendships that lasted a lifetime. But that "Lotus Year" would also later be used to damn her in the eyes of the British Establishment. The British government's supposed "China Dossier" of Wallis's rumored amorous and immoral activities in the Far East was a damning concoction, portraying her as sordid, debauched, influenced by foreign agents, and unfit to marry a king. Instead, French, an award-winning China historian, reveals Wallis Warfield Spencer as a woman of tremendous courage who may have acted as a courier for the US government, undertaking dangerous undercover diplomatic missions in a China torn by civil war. Her Lotus Year is an untold story in the colorful life of a woman too often maligned by history"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986; Americans; Military spouses;

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The Sopranos. [videorecording] / by Bracco, Lorraine,1955-; Falco, Edie.; Gandolfini, James.; Brad Grey Television (Firm); HBO Video (Firm);

Disc 1. Soprano home movies -- Stage 5.Disc 2. Remember when -- Chasing it.Disc 3. Walk like a man -- Kennedy and Heidi -- The second coming.Disc 4. The blue comet -- Made in America.Created by David Chase.James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Siricio, Robert Iler, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Drea de Matteo, Aida Turturro, John Ventimiglia, Federico Castelluccio, Steven R. Schirripa, Robert Funaro, Katherine Narducci, Nancy Marchand, Joe Pantoliano.The continuing story of Tony Soprano, a middle-aged businessman with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's also a mob boss.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation.

Subjects: Gangsters; Italian American families; Mafia; Mafiosi; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

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