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Rev: S1. by Cattaneo, Peter,film director.; Bonneville, Hugh,actor.; Liemann, Lucy,actor.; Jupp, Miles,actor.; Colman, Olivia,actor.; McBurney, Simon,actor.; Evets, Steve,actor.; Hollander, Tom,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Hugh Bonneville, Lucy Liemann, Miles Jupp, Olivia Colman, Simon McBurney, Steve Evets, Tom HollanderOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2010.Meet The Rev. Adam Smallbone. He's a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour's in Hackney, East London. It's a world he has no experience of. And it shows. It really shows. Alex - Adam's long-suffering wife - does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife. Anybody can and does come into St Saviour's. From scheming MPs trying to educate their children on the cheap to Colin, a heavy drinking, unemployable lost soul… Rev. is an authentic - albeit highly comic - portrait of the life of a modern, inner-city vicar. Heavily researched and supported by anecdotes from a number of working city vicars and church insiders it lifts the lid on how the modern church actually functions, and what life is really like in a dog collar.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;

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Kendra Kandlestar and the search for Arazeen / by Födi, Lee Edward.;

As Kendra discovers the fabled City on the Storm, Shuuunga the Unger witch marches toward the Land of Een with her army of monsters. Kendra must find her inner strength to defend and save her people.LSC

Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Kandlestar, Kendra (Fictitious character); Witches; Imaginary wars and battles; Magic; Monsters;

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Hope Blooms : plant a seed, harvest a dream / by Wade, Mamadou,1997-author.;

"There is an old saying that it takes a village to raise a child, but Jessie Jollymore has experienced through the youth of Hope Blooms, an inner city initiative she founded that engages at-risk youth, that sometimes it takes the children to raise the village. A dietitian who worked in inner city health for 15 years, Jollymore witnessed the challenges people face every day with food security, isolation, discrimination, and poverty. An idea bloomed of creating sustainable, youth-driven micro-economies: growing local food systems, growing social enterprises, and mentoring youth to become leaders of change. This led to over 50 youth ages 6 to 18 leading the way in growing over 3,000 pounds of organic produce yearly for their community, building innovative outdoor classrooms, and building a successful Fresh Herb Dressing social enterprise, with 100% of proceeds going toward growing food, and scholarships for youth. In this inspiring, vibrant book, the youth behind Hope Blooms tell the story of the social enterprise they built from the soil up, the struggles of "creating something from nothing," successfully navigating the world of business, and ultimately building resilience and leaving behind a legacy. Includes youth's words of wisdom, stories, and poetry, and over 75 colour photos."--

Subjects: Recipes.; Mentoring; New business enterprises; Problem youth; Produce trade; Social entrepreneurship;

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Rev: S3. by Cattaneo, Peter,film director.; Bonneville, Hugh,actor.; Liemann, Lucy,actor.; Jupp, Miles,actor.; Colman, Olivia,actor.; McBurney, Simon,actor.; Evets, Steve,actor.; Hollander, Tom,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Hugh Bonneville, Lucy Liemann, Miles Jupp, Olivia Colman, Simon McBurney, Steve Evets, Tom HollanderOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2014.The contemporary comedy about an inner city London vicar returns for a third series that asks big questions of the Reverend Adam Smallbone as he and his wife Alex adjust to life as new parents. How will Adam deal with parenthood on top of his small but demanding Church congregation? The new series brings a host of new characters to meet St Saviour's band of lost but loveable misfits as Adam is pushed to the limit by the dilemmas of modern priesthood: is the popular local Imam friend or foe? Should he stick to the Church of England's ban on gay marriage against his own better judgement? And with his Church in imminent financial peril can he continue to fight the good fight against indifference, the worst aspects of his institution and his own tendency towards temptation?Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;

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Rev: S2. by Cattaneo, Peter,film director.; Bonneville, Hugh,actor.; Liemann, Lucy,actor.; Jupp, Miles,actor.; Colman, Olivia,actor.; McBurney, Simon,actor.; Evets, Steve,actor.; Hollander, Tom,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Hugh Bonneville, Lucy Liemann, Miles Jupp, Olivia Colman, Simon McBurney, Steve Evets, Tom HollanderOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2011.Rev. is a contemporary comedy series following the enormous daily frustrations and moral conflicts of the Rev. Adam Smallbone, a Church of England priest struggling to remain relevant in his inner-city parish where he's largely ignored except by the demanding few who attend his church. This series sees cassock-chaser Adoha's crush on Adam reach new heights when he inadvertently rescues her from a mugger. Adam's competitive streak is unleashed in an interfaith football tournament and some very special surprise cameos step through the doors of St Saviour's - from a city banker attending Alcoholics Anonymous who causes Adam to examine his own financial dire straits, to a pretty, young trainee vicar whose brilliance pushes him to the limit…Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;

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Rules at the School by the Sea / by Colgan, Jenny,author.;

Maggie Adair's first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she's learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls' boarding school by the sea. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie's just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys' school down the road. Well, hasn't she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well Behaved Teacher's exercise book and stick to her plan for a small but elegant wedding and settled life of matrimony? Even as Maggie tries to stay within the lines, rules are being broken all around her. Maggie's boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, has more to lose than anyone. When Daniel Stapleton joins the faculty, Veronica finds herself forced to confront a scandalous secret she thought she'd carefully buried forever. How long will she be able to keep her past under wraps? What does a new year of classes, rules, and camaraderie hold for the students and faculty at Downey House?

Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Chick lit.; Novels.; Boarding school students; Boarding schools; Man-woman relationships; Teachers;

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Life sentence : the brief and tragic career of Baltimore's deadliest gang leader / by Bowden, Mark,1951-author.;

Includes bibliographical references."In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it all. He was the leader of the gang "Trained to Go," or TTG, and when he was finally arrested and sentenced to life in prison, he had been labeled "Baltimore's Number One Trigger Puller." Under Tana's reign, TTG dominated Sandtown. After a string of murders are linked to TTG, each with dozens of witnesses too intimidated to testify, three detectives set out to put Tana in prison for life. For them, this was never about drugs: it was about serial murder. An acclaimed journalist who spent his youth in the white suburbs of Baltimore, Mark Bowden returns to the city with exclusive access to key FBI files and unprecedented insight into one of the city's deadliest gangs and its notorious leader. As he traces the rise and fall of TTG, Bowden uses wiretapped drug buys, police interviews, undercover videos, text messages, social media posts, trial transcripts, and his own ongoing conversations with Tana's family and community to create the most in-depth account of an inner-city gang ever written. With his signature precision and propulsive narrative, Mark Bowden positions Tana-as a boy, a gang leader, a killer, and now a prisoner-in the context of Baltimore and America, illuminating his path for what it really was: a life sentence"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; True crime stories.; Barronette, Montana, 1995-; Crime; Gang members; Gangs;

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The return of Faraz Ali / by Ahmad, Aamina,author.;

"Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore, installing him as head of the Mohalla police station and charging him with a mission: to cover up the violent death of a young kanjari. It should be a simple assignment to carry out in a marginalized community, but for the first time in his career, Faraz finds himself unable to follow orders. As the city assails him with a jumble of memories, he cannot stop asking questions or chasing down the walled city's labyrinthine alleyways for the secrets--his family's and his own--that risk shattering his precariously constructed existence. Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?"--

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Fathers and sons; Homecoming; Police;

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Rat city : overcrowding and urban derangement in the rodent universes of John B. Calhoun / by Adams, Jon,author.; Ramsden, Edmund,author.;

"How a landmark experiment in rat behavior changed the way we think about cities. In the decades following WWII, the American metropolis was in peril. Modern high rises hastily erected to replace slums became incubators of criminality, while civic unrest erupted across the nation. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of overcrowding. Calhoun decided to focus his study on rats. From 1947 to 1977, Calhoun built a series of sprawling habitats in which a rat's every need was met -- except space. As the enclosures became ever more crowded, resident rats began to react to social stress, culminating in the terrifying world of Universe 25: a rodent habitat where escalating social disorder collapsed to violent extinction. Did a similar fate await our own teeming cities? Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden's Rat City is the first book to tell the story of maverick scientist Calhoun and his now-viral experiments. Following the rats from the baiting pits of Victorian London to the laboratories of NIMH, and Calhoun from rural Tennessee to inner-city Baltimore, Rat City is an enthralling mix of dystopian science and urban history. Social design, housing infrastructure, a burgeoning current of racism in city planning: Calhoun influenced them all, and Rat City connects Calhoun's work to the politics of personal space, the looming threat of global overpopulation, and the eclipsing of environmental psychology by pharmaceutical psychiatry. As the "war on rats" continues to be waged around the world, and our post-pandemic society reevaluates the necessity of urban living, the riveting story of Rat City is more relevant than ever"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Calhoun, John B.; Ethologists; Human beings; Human ecology.; Overpopulation.; Rats; Rats; Urban ecology (Sociology);

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Miss Del Río : a novel / by Mujica, Bárbara Louise,author.;

"Spirited away to Hollywood from Mexico City, Dolores del Rio becomes an instant star, swept up into Tinseltown's glitzy inner circle, until, amidst her tumultuous personal life, she becomes box office poison amid growing prejudice before World War II, forcing her to decide what price she's willing to pay to achieve her dreams"--

Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983; Motion picture actors and actresses;

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