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Freaks [videorecording] / by Crew, Amanda,1986-actor.; Dern, Bruce,actor.; Hirsch, Emile,1985-actor.; Kolker, Lexy,2009-actor.; Lipovsky, Zack,film director.; Park, Grace,1974-actor.; Stein, Adam,film director.; Amazing Incorporated,production company.; My Way Productions,presenter.; Storyboard Capital Group,presenter.; Well Go USA, Inc.,film distributor.; Wise Daughter Films,presenter.;
Music by Timothy Michael Wynn.Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew, Lexy Kolker.Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat -- or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R (Restricted for violence and some language).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (16:9 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Science fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Abnormalities, Human; Fathers and daughters; Strangers;
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In the belly of the Congo / by Ndala, Blaise,1972-author.; Reid, Amy Baram,1964-translator.; translation of:Ndala, Blaise,1972-Dans le ventre du Congo.English.;
"A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. April 1958. When the Brussels World's Fair opens, Robert Dumont, one of the people responsible for the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, ends up laying down his arms in the face of pressure from the royal palace: there will be a "Congolese village" in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven recruits mobilized at the foot of the Atomium to put on a show is the young Tshala, daughter of the intractable king of the Bakuba. The journey of this princess is revealed to us, from her native Kasai to Brussels via Léopoldville, to her forced exhibition at Expo 58, where we lose track of it. Summer 2004. Freshly arrived in Belgium, a niece of the missing princess crosses paths with a man haunted by the ghost of his father. This is Francis Dumont, professor of law at the Free University of Brussels. A succession of events ends up revealing to them the secret carried by the former deputy commissioner of Expo 58 to his tomb. From one century to the next, the novel embraces History with a capital "H," to pose the central question of the colonial equation: can the past pass?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Colonists; Exiles; Human zoos; Kuba (African people); Missing persons; Nieces; Princesses; Racism;
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A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? / by Weinersmith, Kelly,author.; Weinersmith, Zach,1982-author,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In a world hurtling toward human expansion into space, 'A City on Mars' investigates whether the dream of new worlds won't create nightmares, both for settlers and the people they leave behind. In the process, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith answer every question about space you've ever wondered about, and many you've never considered. Can you make babies in space? Should corporations govern space settlements? What about space war? Are we headed for a housing crisis on the Moon's Peaks of Eternal Light-and what happens if you're left in the Craters of Eternal Darkness? With deep expertise, a winning sense of humor, and art from the beloved creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, the Weinersmiths investigate perhaps the biggest questions humanity will ever ask itself-whether and how to become multiplanetary.
Subjects: Humor.; Extraterrestrial anthropology.; Interplanetary voyages.; Life on other planets.; Space colonies.;
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The 5th wave [videorecording] / by Blakeson, J,film director.; Borders, Bailey Anne,actor.; Lopez, Gabriela,actor.; Moretz, Chloë,1997-actor.; Zuk, Matthew,actor.; Columbia Pictures Corporation,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Chloe Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Zackary Arthur.Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.Sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan is trying to survive a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion, while trying to save her five-year-old brother Sam from a training camp that was created by the Others (the aliens).Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Brothers and sisters; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Rescues; Survival;
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A Shaun the Sheep movie. [videorecording] / by Becher, Will,film director.; Brown, Jon(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Burton, Mark,1960-screenwriter,film producer.; Evan-Jones, Sim,editor of moving image work.; Fletcher, Justin,1970-voice actor.; Harbour, Kate,voice actor.; Holt, David,1965-voice actor.; Howe, Tom,1977-composer (expression); Kewley, Paul,film producer.; Phelan, Richard,film director.; Sparkes, John,1954-voice actor.; Vitale, Amalia,voice actor.; Aardman Animations (Firm),production company.; Anton Capital Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Shout! Factory Kids (Firm),film distributor.; Studio Canal,publisher.;
Music by Tom Howe ; edited by Sim Evan-Jones ACE.Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Amalia Vitale, David Holt, Kate Harbour.It's one small step for lamb in Shaun's out-of-this-world movie! When a mischievous alien crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun sets off on a thrilling rescue mission to help her return home, while a secret government UFO organization is hot on their trail. Can Shaun and the flock avert Farmageddon before it's too late?Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Shaun, the Sheep (Fictitious character); Extraterrestrial beings; Farms; Human-alien encounters; Sheep;
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What storm, what thunder / by Chancy, Myriam J. A.,1970-author.;
"At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Artfully weaving together these lives, witness is given to the desolation wreaked by nature and by man. Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and-at the same time-an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Interpersonal relations; Disasters; Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010;
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Pixels [videorecording] / by Columbus, Chris,film director.; Dinklage, Peter.; Gad, Josh,1981-actor.; James, Kevin,1965-actor.; Kazan, Lainie,actor.; Monaghan, Michelle.; Sandler, Adam,film producer.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Lainie Kazan, Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Josh Gad.As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant saved the world thousands of times, at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they're going to have to do it for real. In Pixels, when intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth, using the video games as the models for their assaults.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1; Anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1).
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Extraterrestrial beings; Feature films.; Geeks (Computer enthusiasts); Human-alien encounters; Male friendship; Video game characters; Video gamers; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.;
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Paradise of the Pacific : approaching Hawaii / by Moore, Susanna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Map -- This Realm of Chaos and Old Night -- Awe of the Night Approaching -- The Source of the Darkness that Made Darkness -- The Cloak of Bird Feathers -- One Great Caravanserai -- A Pilgrim and a Stranger -- A Light to My Path -- Crucified to the World -- Falling Are the Heavens -- The Voice of Land shells -- Notes -- Glossary -- Gods and Personages -- Bibliography -- Index."The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage, soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay--all wanderers washed ashore, sometimes by accident. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants--legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii--its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers--a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Acculturation; Culture conflict; Legends; Social change;
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The 5th wave [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Blakeson, J,film director.; Moretz, Chloë,1997-actor.; Zuk, Matthew,actor.; Lopez, Gabriela,actor.; Borders, Bailey Anne,actor.; Columbia Pictures Corporation,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Chloe Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Zackary Arthur.Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.Sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan is trying to survive a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion, while trying to save her five-year-old brother Sam from a training camp that was created by the Others (the aliens).Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Extraterrestrial beings; Brothers and sisters; Survival; Rescues; Human-alien encounters;
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When the pine needles fall : Indigenous acts of resistance / by Gabriel, Katsi'tsakwas Ellen,author.; Carleton, Sean,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."There have been many things written about Canada's violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990 (the so-called Oka Crisis), but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance is the first book from the perspective of Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, who was the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson during the siege. When the Pine Needles Fall, written in a conversational style by Gabriel with historian Sean Carleton, offers an intimate look at Gabriel's life leading up to the 1990 siege, her experiences as spokesperson for her community, and her work since then as an Indigenous land defender, human rights activist, and feminist leader. More than just the memoir of an extraordinary individual, When the Pine Needles Fall offers insight into Indigenous language, history, and philosophy, reflections on our relationship with the land, and calls to action against both colonialism and capitalism as we face the climate crisis. Gabriel's hopes for a decolonial future make clear why protecting Indigenous homelands is vital not only for the survival of Indigenous peoples, but for all who live on this planet"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gabriel, Katsi'tsakwas Ellen.; Government, Resistance to; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; First Nations activists; First Nations women activists; First Nations; First Nations; First Nations; Kanyen'kehà:ka women; Kanyen'kehà:ka;
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