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The vibrant years : a novel / by Dev, Sonali,author.;
Three generations of the Desai women--65-year-old Bindu, her daughter-in-law Aly and her granddaughter Cullie--navigate bad dates, reemerging exes and secrets that refuse to remain hidden as they embark on a daring shared journey of self-discovery to live their most authentic lives.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; East Indian Americans; Families; Man-woman relationships; Self-realization in women; Women, East Indian;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Crazy ex-girlfriend. [videorecording] / by Bloom, Rachel,actor.; Champlin, Donna Lynne,actor.; Fontana, Santino,actor.; Rodriguez, Vincent(Actor),actor.; Columbia Broadcasting System, inc,production company.; Warner Archive (Firm),publisher.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,production company.;
Rachel Bloom, Vincent Rodriguez Iii, Santino Fontana, Donna Lynne Champlin.Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy, young woman who impulsively gives up everything, her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan, in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in the exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, California.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Fiction television programs.; Situation comedies (Television programs); Television series.; Single women; Suburbanites; Man-woman relationships;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The forgotten daughter : a novel / by Goodman, Joanna,1969-author.;
"1992. Montreal, Quebec, 60 miles from the US border. Canada is in danger of splintering as French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence from Canada. Wild and beautiful Véronique Fortin, daughter of a radical French- Canadian separatist who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, shares her father's cause. She harbors no moral quandaries about flouting laws against smuggling, thievery, or terror to achieve political goals. So it is a surprise to everyone when she falls for James Phénix, a fluently bi-lingual journalist of French-Canadian heritage, inhabits both worlds comfortably, and opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is politically charged and they lie in a constant struggle between love and morals. At the same time, James's older sister Elodie Phénix, one of the Duplessis Orphans, becomes involved with a coalition demanding justice and reparations for their suffering in the 1950's when Quebec's orphanages were converted to mental hospitals. This heinous political act of Premier Maurice Duplessis affected 5000 children in the province. Two decades later they still struggle to bind their wounds. Elodie and Véronique are kindred spirits, both constrained by their pasts, but desperate to move forward, and the two become friends on their parallel journeys. And Véronique is the only person Elodie can rely on as she slowly wades into the fight for retribution, reliving all her trauma along the way, and her familial relationships begin to strain. The Forgotten Daughter is a moving portrait of true love, familial bonds, and persistence in the face of injustice. And as each character is pushed to their moral brink, the will discover exactly which lines they'll cross-and just how far they'll go for what they believe in"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Female friendship; Orphans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Outsiders. [videorecording] / by Alexy, Gillian,actor.; Anderson, Joe,1982-actor.; Gallner, Kyle,actor.; Hurst, Jackson,1979-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Joe Anderson, Ryan Hurst, Kyle Gallner, Gillian Alexy, Ed Heavey.A struggle for power and control set in the mysterious hills of modern-day Appalachia centers on the Farrells family, who behave as though they are above the law and are prepared to use any means necessary to protect their off-the-grid way of life in rural Kentucky.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital (English); Region 1.
Subjects: Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Clans; Families;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Compulsus. by Thorne, Tara,film director.; Dorian, Kathleen,actor.; McCormack, Kathryn,actor.; Smith, Lesley,actor.; V71 US Inc. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Kathleen Dorian, Kathryn McCormack, Lesley SmithOriginally produced by V71 US Inc. in 2022.Driven by rage, empathy, and something she can’t yet name, Wally secretly patrols the streets at night, taking physical revenge on abusive hipster men on behalf of the survivors who can’t. When law-abiding Lou enters her world, love and revenge clash threatening to infiltrate their relationship.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Queer cinema.; Motion pictures--Canada.;
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Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / by Rushkoff, Douglas,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the "Event": the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making-as long as they have enough money and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters-master programmers who want to remake the world from scratch as if redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced that incentivized capitalism is the solution to environmental disasters-Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so. And he shows how recent forms of anti-mainstream rebellion-QAnon, for example, or meme stocks-reinforce the same destructive order. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset created-a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies-and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. In a thundering conclusion, Survival of the Richest argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn't happen in the first place"--
Subjects: Billionaires; Survivalism; Technology and civilization;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pandemic panic : how Canadian government responses to COVID-19 changed civil liberties forever / by Baron, Joanna(Lawyer),author.; Manning, Preston,1942-writer of foreword.; Van Geyn, Christine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The COVID-19 pandemic was a huge event-politically, culturally, economically, personally. 'Pandemic Panic' is a vital investigation into the way governments in Canada dealt with the pandemic and is a valuable and detailed mastication into an event that can no longer be swept under the carpet.
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 vaccines.; Social conflict; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The prosecutor : one man's battle to bring Nazis to justice / by Fairweather, Jack,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the horrors of the Holocaust were in danger of being forgotten. In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish judge from Stuttgart who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. In this deeply researched book, Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews to immerse readers in the shadowy, unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany where those who implemented genocide run the country, the CIA is funding Hitler's former spy-ring in the east, and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strictly enforced. But once Bauer landed on the trail of Adolf Eichmann, he wouldn't be intimidated. His journey took him deep into the dark heart of West Germany, where his fight for justice would set him against his own government and a network of former Nazis and spies bent on silencing him. In a time when the history of the Holocaust is taken for granted, The Prosecutor reveals the courtroom battles that were fought to establish its legacy and the personal cost of speaking out. The result is a searing portrait of a nation emerging from the ruins of fascism and one man's courage in forcing his people--and the world--to face the truth"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Bauer, Fritz, 1903-1968.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish lawyers; Lawyers; War crime trials; World War, 1939-1945;
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Our missing hearts : a novel / by Ng, Celeste,author.;
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power-and limitations-of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Families; Missing persons; Women poets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Texas Outlaw [sound recording]. by Patterson, James & Andrew Bourelle.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: TEXAS RANGER, ISBN 9781478975472. In this second installment of the 'Rory Yates' series, Rory investigates the seemingly accidental death of a councilwoman in the remote West Texas town of Rio Lobo. What he finds is a tangle of small-town secrets, favours and lies as crooked as Texas law is straight.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Western fiction.; FICTION; FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Westerns;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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