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By the ghost light : war, memory, and families / by Thomson, R. H.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From one of Canada's most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations. Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson's imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother's house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies--ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished. Yet Thomson's childhood was also shaped by the spirits of real-life warriors in his family, their fates a brutal and more complicated reminder of the true human cost of war. Eight of Robert's great uncles--George, Joe, Jack, Harold, Arthur, Warren, Wildy, and Fred--fought in the First World War, while his great Aunt Margaret served as a wartime surgical nurse in Europe. Five of the great uncles--George, Joe, Fred, Wildy, and Warren--were killed in battle while two others--Jack and Harold--would return home greatly diminished, spending the rest of their lives in and out of sanitariums, their lungs scarred by disease and poison gas. Throughout their lives, the great uncles, as well as great aunts and cousins, were faithful letter writers, their correspondence offering profound insights into their experiences on the front lines to their loved ones back home, a somber record of the sacrifice the family paid. In By the Ghost Light, R.H. Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family's history while providing a powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials, and monuments. In an urgent call for new ways to acknowledge the dead, R.H. has created "The World Remembers," an ambitious international project to individually name each of the millions killed in the First World War. Epic in its scope and incredibly intimate in its exploration of lives touched by the tragedy of war, By the Ghost Light is a truly original book that will challenge the way we approach our history"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Thomson, R. H.; Thompson family; World War, 1914-1918;
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Mary and the witch's flower [videorecording] / by Amami, Yuki,1967-voice actor.; Barnhill, Ruby,2004-voice actor.; Baron, Lynda,voice actor.; Bremner, Ewen,voice actor.; Broadbent, Jim,voice actor.; Freedman, David,1965-screenwriter.; Freedman, Lynda,screenwriter.; Kamiki, Ryūnosuke,1993-voice actor.; New, Giles,film director.; Nishimura, Yoshiaki,1977-film producer.; Sakaguchi, Riko,1972-screenwriter.; Sugisaki, Hana,voice actor.; Wexler, Geoffrey,film producer.; Winslet, Kate,voice actor.; Yonebayashi, Hiromasa,1973-screenwriter,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Stewart, Mary,1916-2014.Little broomstick.; Altitude Film Entertainment (Firm),production company.; GKids (Firm),production company.; Nippon TV Movies,production company.; Studio Ponoc,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Takatsugu Muramatsu ; supervising animator, Takeshi Inamura ; director of photography, Susumu Fukushi ; editor, Toshihiko Kojima.English voice cast: Ruby Barnhill, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Lynda Baron ; Japanese voice cast: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Amami.From Academy Award nominee Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director of When Marnie Was There and key animator on Spirited Away, comes a dazzling new adventure about a young girl who discovers a flower that grants her magical powers - but only for one night. Mary is an ordinary young girl stuck in the country with her Great-Aunt Charlotte when she discovers an old broomstick and the strange flower that blossoms only once every seven years. Suddenly, Mary finds herself whisked away to Endor College - a school of magic run by Madam Mumblechook and the brilliant Doctor Dee. But the school is not all that it seems, and when Mary tells a lie, she must risk her life to try to set things right.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Action and adventure films.; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Magic; Witches; Flowers;
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Clockwork angel / by Clare, Cassandra.;
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother."Ages 14 up"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Steampunk fiction.; Horror fiction.; Gray, Tessa (Fictitious character); Orphans; Brothers and sisters; Supernatural; Demonology; Secret societies;
© 2011, c2010., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,
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Mary and the witch's flower [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Amami, Yuki,1967-voice actor.; Barnhill, Ruby,2004-voice actor.; Baron, Lynda,voice actor.; Bremner, Ewen,voice actor.; Broadbent, Jim,voice actor.; Freedman, David,1965-screenwriter.; Freedman, Lynda,screenwriter.; Kamiki, Ryūnosuke,1993-voice actor.; New, Giles,film director.; Nishimura, Yoshiaki,1977-film producer.; Sakaguchi, Riko,1972-screenwriter.; Sugisaki, Hana,voice actor.; Wexler, Geoffrey,film producer.; Winslet, Kate,voice actor.; Yonebayashi, Hiromasa,1973-screenwriter,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Stewart, Mary,1916-2014.Little broomstick.; Altitude Film Entertainment (Firm),production company.; GKids (Firm),production company.; Nippon TV Movies,production company.; Studio Ponoc,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Takatsugu Muramatsu ; supervising animator, Takeshi Inamura ; director of photography, Susumu Fukushi ; editor, Toshihiko Kojima.English voice cast: Ruby Barnhill, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Lynda Baron ; Japanese voice cast: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Amami.From Academy Award nominee Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director of When Marnie Was There and key animator on Spirited Away, comes a dazzling new adventure about a young girl who discovers a flower that grants her magical powers - but only for one night. Mary is an ordinary young girl stuck in the country with her Great-Aunt Charlotte when she discovers an old broomstick and the strange flower that blossoms only once every seven years. Suddenly, Mary finds herself whisked away to Endor College - a school of magic run by Madam Mumblechook and the brilliant Doctor Dee. But the school is not all that it seems, and when Mary tells a lie, she must risk her life to try to set things right.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Action and adventure films.; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Magic; Witches; Flowers;
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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / by Kendi, Ibram X.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America. As Kendi provocatively illustrates, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation's racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much-needed light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose them--and in the process, gives us reason to hope." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Racism;
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The mystery of the sorrowful maiden / by Saunders, Kate,1960-author.;
In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theatre fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theatre, she cannot turn away the woman in need. She agrees to take the case. But what starts out as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the burnt husk of the old theatre. Soon Mrs Rodd finds herself embroiled in family politics, rivalries that put the Capulets and Montagues to shame, and betrayals on a Shakespearean scale. Mrs Rodd will need all her investigative powers, not to mention her famous discretion, to solve the case before tragedy strikes once more.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Actors; Murder; Theater; Women private investigators;
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The novelist from Berlin / by Alexander, V. S.,author.;
"1920s Germany: Though the world has changed in the wake of the Great War, it is still ruled by men. Even a woman as resourceful and intelligent as Niki Rittenhaus needs alliances in order to survive. Her marriage to Rickard Länger, a movie producer for Berlin's Passport Pictures, seems convenient for them both. When Rickard succumbs to increasing pressure from the Nazis to make propaganda movies, a horrified Niki turns away from her own film aspirations and instead, begins to write. Niki's first novel, The Berlin Woman, is published under a pseudonym to great success. But Niki knows she cannot stay anonymous for long. The Nazis are cementing their power over Germany--and over her husband. Though she succeeds in escaping Rickard, he directs Hitler's Brownshirts to do the unthinkable: kidnap their daughter. With her books blacklisted, her life in danger, and Europe descending into war, Niki travels to Amsterdam, joins the Dutch Resistance, and then returns to war-torn Berlin determined to claim freedom for herself and her child, and to write her own story at last."--Back cover.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Married people; Mothers and daughters; Nazis; Women novelists; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Innovation / by Ackroyd, Peter,1949-author.; Ackroyd, Peter,1949-History of England.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades. A century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women's suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T.S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, of the end of the post-war slump to the technicolour explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock and from Thatcher to Blair. A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, it is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers"--
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Lorne The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live [electronic resource] : by Morrison, Susan.aut; cloudLibrary;
The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show “The kind of biographical monument usually consecrated to founding fathers, canonical authors and world-historical scientific geniuses.”—The New York Times “Readers are treated to the Holy Grail for any journalist hoping to crack the show: a warts-and-all week in the life of SNL, where Morrison gets to see the real process of putting the thing together.”—Variety Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He’s a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys—and, essentially, a mystery. Generations of writers and performers have spent their lives trying to figure him out, by turns demonizing and lionizing him. He’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” (Tracy Morgan), the “great and powerful Oz” (Kate McKinnon), “some kind of very distant, strange comedy god” (Bob Odenkirk). Lorne will introduce you to him, in full, for the first time. With unprecedented access to Michaels and the entire SNL apparatus, Susan Morrison takes readers behind the curtain for the lively, up-and-down, definitive story of how Michaels created and maintained the institution that changed comedy forever. Drawn from hundreds of interviews—with Michaels, his friends, and SNL’s iconic stars and writers, from Will Ferrell to Tina Fey to John Mulaney to Chris Rock to Dan Aykroyd—Lorne is a deeply reported, wildly entertaining account of a man singularly obsessed with the show that would define his life and have a profound impact on American culture.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Entertainment & Performing Arts;
© 2025., Random House Publishing Group,
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North American odyssey : 12,000 miles across the continent by kayak, canoe, and dogsled / by Freeman, Amy,author.; Freeman, Dave(Wilderness guide),author.;
"In 2010, experienced wilderness travelers Amy and Dave Freeman married and set out on an unusual honeymoon: a 12,000 mile, human-powered journey across North America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Freeman, Amy; Freeman, Dave (Wilderness guide); Canoes and canoeing; Dogsledding; Honeymoons; Kayaking; Outdoor life;
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