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Muskoka resorts : then and now / Andrew Hind and Maria Da Silva. -- by Hind, Andrew.; Da Silva, Maria.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242) and index."The storied past of carefree summers and timeless hospitality is the focus of Muskoka resorts. Twelve classic resorts are explored in depth, some of which are still thriving today, such as Windermere House and Deerhurst"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Resorts; Historic hotels;
© c2011., Dundurn Press,
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The case of the weird blue chicken: the next misadventure [yoto card] : Yoto card / by Cronin, Doreen.; Cornell, Kevin.;
Read by Adam Grupper; Michele Medlin.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.When a weird blue chicken comes to Chicken Squad headquarters for help, siblings Dirt, Sugar, and Sweetie help find her missing house.Ages 7 to 10.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Blue jay; Chickens; Lost articles; Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;
© 2021., Yoto Inc.
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad : the hidden truth at the heart of the greatest battle of World War II / by MacGregor, Iain,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A thrilling, vivid, and highly detailed account of the epic siege during one of World War II's most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie, Iain MacGregor. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets' hard-won victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Volga. To Russians it was a pivotal landmark of their nation's losses, with more than two million civilians and combatants either killed, wounded, or captured during the bitter fighting from September 1942 to February 1943. Both sides endured terrible conditions in brutal, relentless house-to-house fighting. Within this life-and-death struggle, Soviet war correspondents lauded the fight for a key strategic building in the heart of the city, "Pavlov's House," which was situated on the frontline and codenamed "The Lighthouse." The legend grew of a small garrison of Russian soldiers from the 13th Guards Rifle Division holding out against the Germans of the Sixth Army, which had battled its way to the very center of Stalingrad. A report about the battle in a local Red Army newspaper would soon grow and be repeated on Moscow radio and in countless national newspapers. By the end of the war, the legend would gather further momentum and inspire Russians to rebuild their destroyed towns and cities. This story has become a pillar of the Stalingrad legend and one that can now be analyzed and told accurately. The Lighthouse of Stalingrad sheds new light on this iconic battle through the prism of the two units who fought for the very heart of the city itself. Iain MacGregor traveled to both German and Russian archives to unearth previously unpublished testimonies by soldiers on both sides of the conflict. His riveting narrative lays to rest the questions as to the identity of the real heroes of this epic battle for one of the city's most famous buildings and provides authoritative answers as to how the battle finally ended and influenced the conclusion of the siege of Stalingrad"--
Subjects: Germany. Heer. Infanterie-Division, 71.; Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a. Gvardeĭskai͡a strelkovai͡a divizii͡a, 13-i͡a.; Dom Pavlova (Volgograd, Russia); Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.; World War, 1939-1945;
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Brat : an '80s story / by McCarthy, Andrew,1962-author.;
"Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. New York City of the 1980s is brought to vivid life in these pages--scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park and skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life. Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; McCarthy, Andrew, 1962-; Actors; Motion pictures; Nineteen eighties.;
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Deep state : a thriller / by Hauty, Chris,author.;
"Recently elected President Richard Monroe--populist, controversial, and divisive--is at the center of an increasingly polarized Washington, DC. Never has the partisan drama been so tense or the paranoia so rampant. In the midst of contentious political turf wars, the White House chief of staff is found dead in his house. A tenacious intern discovers a single clue that suggests he died from something other than natural causes, and there may be wide-ranging conspiracy running beneath the surface of everyday events: powerful government figures are schemingto undermine the rule of law--and democracy itself. Soon, allies are exposed as enemies, once-dependable authorities fall under suspicion, and it seems no one is who they say they are. The unthinkable is happening. The Deep State is real. Who will die to keep its secrets? Who will kill to uncover the truth?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Presidents; Assassination; Conspiracies; Murder;
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In the dark / by Hunter, Cara,author.;
"From internationally bestselling author Cara Hunter, a riveting suspense novel about the shocking secrets revealed when a woman is discovered held captive behind a basement wall--and no one is who they appear to be. Do you know what they're hiding in the house next door? A woman and child are found locked in a basement, barely alive, and unidentifiable: the woman can't speak, there are no missing persons reports that match their profile, and the confused, elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. The inhabitants of the quiet street are in shock--how could this happen right under their noses? But Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows nothing is impossible. And no one is as innocent as they seem. As the police grow desperate for a lead, Fawley stumbles across a breakthrough, a link to a case he worked years before about another young woman and child gone missing, never solved. When he realizes the missing woman's house is directly adjacent to the house in this case, he thinks he might have found the connection that could bring justice for both women. But there's something not quite right about the little boy from the basement, and the truth will send shockwaves through the force that Fawley never could have anticipated. In the Dark is the second gripping novel featuring DI Adam Fawley"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Missing persons; Secrecy; Police;
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Resilient [sound recording] : how to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness / by Hanson, Rick(Psychologist),author,narrator.; Hanson, Forrest,author.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by Rick Hanson.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Resilience (Personality trait); Neuropsychology.; Happiness.; Mind and body.;
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The Christmas cabin / by Major, Michelle,author.;
As a girl, single mom Lauren Maxwell hated Magnolia, South Carolina. And she thought she'd left her hometown in the rearview mirror years ago, but a message from her beloved baby brother, Brody, changes all that. He's getting married on Christmas Eve. So a holiday at Camp Blossom, the rustic sleepaway camp that had been a haven during her growing-up years, it is. Lauren won't even have to see her dictatorial father. Or her ex-husband, Ben ... When Ben greets her at the surprisingly decrepit cabin, he's just as stubborn -- and as irresistible -- as ever. And when she discovers he's working with her estranged father to buy the campgrounds and rebuild them as luxury housing, Lauren is furious. She won't let the man who broke her heart win. So she and her daughter stay in town to block the sale. But the magic of the Christmas season brings back memories Lauren tried so hard to forget: his crooked smile, their daughter's laughter at the breakfast table, the feel of her hand in his. As the spark between them rekindles, Lauren realizes that second chances are real. And they're worth fighting for.
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Romance fiction.; Novels.; Christmas stories.; Man-woman relationships; Real property; Women;
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A life's work [videorecording] / by Darden, Bob,1954-on-screen participant.; Licata, David,film director.; Soleri, Paolo,1919-2013,on-screen participant.; Milarch, David,on-screen participant.; Milarch, Jared,on-screen participant.; Tarter, Jill C.,on-screen participant.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;
Jill Tarter, Robert Darden, David Milarch, Jared Milarch, Paolo Soleri.What's it like to dedicate your life to work that won't be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question. The subjects include Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute, who has been involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence since the 1970s; David and Jared Milarch, father and son tree farmers and co-founders of the Champion Tree Project, who clone old-growth trees to combat climate change; gospel music archivist Robert Darden, who founded the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, an organization that is trying preserve at-risk recordings from the black gospel music tradition; and Paolo Soleri, controversial architect behind Arcosanti, a town designed to test his theories about housing an overpopulated planet. We discover what inspired them to begin, what obstacles they face, what drives and sustains them, and how they measure success of an endeavor they will not live to see completed.E.DVD.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Personal narratives.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; SETI Institute.; Champion trees; Extraterrestrial beings.; Gospel music; Life on other planets.; Radio astronomy.; Sound recordings;
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The great Canadian art fraud case : the Group of Seven & Tom Thomson forgeries / by Dellandrea, Jon S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the box chronicled a major, and long forgotten, trial involving forgeries of the art of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case takes readers back to 1962, a time when forgeries were turning up on gallery walls, in auction houses, and (unwittingly) being hung in the homes of luminaries across Canada. Inspector James Erskine, enlisting the help of A.J. Casson, the youngest living member of the Group of Seven, set out to discover where the forgeries were coming from. Dellandrea follows Erskine's investigations and the subsequent court case, investigating how unknown and down-on-their-luck artists like MacGregor were implicated and profiling the major characters involved in the case. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 reproductions and archival images, The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case unravels the mystery of the greatest art fraud trial in Canadian history. Along the way, it also tells the story of a talented artist whose career might have been so very different."--
Subjects: True crime stories.; MacGregor, William Firth; Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917; Group of Seven (Group of artists); Art forgers; Art; Artists; Trials (Forgery);
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