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Prairie animals : explore the fascinating worlds of-- by Winner, Cherie.Bison.; Lynch, Wayne.Hawks.; Lorbiecki, Marybeth.Prairie dogs.; Vogel, Julia.Wild horses.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 187) and indexes.Bison / by Cherie Winner ; illustrations by John F. McGee -- Hawks / by Wayne Lynch ; illustrations by Fred Smith -- Prairie dogs / by Marybeth Lorbiecki ; illustrations by Wayne Ford -- Wild horses / by Julia Vogel ; illustrations by Mike Rowe.Explores what bison, hawks, prairie dogs, and wild horses are like and how they live in the wild.
Subjects: Prairie animals; Bison; Hawks; Prairie dogs; Wild horses;
© c2004., NorthWord Press,
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Memphis : a novel / by Stringfellow, Tara M.,author.;
"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory, and given who lives inside this house now, she knows it won't be the last. When her aunt opens the door, Joan sees the cousin who once brutally assaulted her. Over the next few years, she is determined not just to survive, but to find something to dream for. Longing to become an artist, she pours her rage and grief into sketching portraits of the women in her life--including old Miss Dawn from down the street, who seems to know something about curses"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; African American families; Family secrets;
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Jane Austen's bookshelf : a rare book collector's quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend / by Romney, Rebecca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen's books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread them, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn't a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers -- and clues about those women, and the exceptional books they wrote, are sprinkled like breadcrumbs throughout Austen's work. Every character in Northanger Abbey who isn't a boor sings the praises of Ann Radcliffe. The play that causes such a stir in Mansfield Park is a real one by the playwright Elizabeth Inchbald. In fact, the phrase "pride and prejudice" came from Frances Burney's second novel Cecilia. The women that populated Jane Austen's bookshelf profoundly influenced her work; Austen looked up to them, passionately discussed their books with her friends, and used an appreciation of their books as a litmus test for whether someone had good taste. So where had these women gone? Why hadn't Romney -- despite her training -- ever read them? Or, in some cases, even heard of them? And why were they no longer embraced as part of the wider literary canon? Jane Austen's Bookshelf investigates the disappearance of Austen's heroes -- women writers who were erased from the Western canon -- to reveal who they were, what they meant to Austen, and how they were forgotten. Each chapter profiles a different writer including Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Lennox, Charlotte Smith, Hannah More, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, and Maria Edgeworth -- and recounts Romney's experience reading them, finding rare copies of their works, and drawing on connections between their words and Austen's. Romney collects the once-famed works of these forgotten writers, physically recreating Austen's bookshelf and making a convincing case for why these books should be placed back on the to-be-read pile of all book lovers today. Jane Austen's Bookshelf will encourage you to look beyond assigned reading lists, question who decides what belongs there, and build your very own collection of favorite novels"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Literary criticism.; Personal narratives.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840; Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823; Lennox, Charlotte, approximately 1729-1804; Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806; More, Hannah, 1745-1833; Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821; Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821; Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849; English literature; Literature; Women novelists, English; Women novelists, English; Women novelists, English; Women novelists, English;
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Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells / by Duster, Michelle,author.; Giorgis, Hannah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
Subjects: Biographies.; Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.; African American women civil rights workers; African American women journalists; African American women social reformers; Civil rights workers; African American women;
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Ghost liners : exploring the world's greatest lost ships / by Ballard, Robert D.; Archbold, Rick,1950-; Marschall, Ken;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-63)
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Ocean liners;
© 1998., Scholastic Canada,
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Son of a gun [videorecording] / by Avery, Julius,film director,screenwriter.; Herriman, Damon,1970-; McGregor, Ewan,1971-; Thwaites, Brenton,1989-; Vikander, Alicia,1988-; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
Music, Jed Kurzel ; editor, Jack Hutchings ; director of photography, Nigel Bluck.Alicia Vikander, Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Damon Herriman, Matt Nable, Nash Edgerton.After breaking out of a maximum-security prison, Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, enlists 19-year-old JR to accompany him and his crew on a gold heist that promises to deliver millions. However, as things start to go wrong, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Caper films.; Crime films.; Criminals; Escapes; Feature films.; Gold theft; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Assassin's creed [videorecording] / by Cotillard, Marion,1975-actor.; Fassbender, Michael,1977-actor.; Gleeson, Brendan,actor.; Irons, Jeremy,1948-actor.; Kurzel, Justin,film director.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.;
Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Essie Davis.Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for intense sequences of violence and action, thematic elements and brief strong language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Templars; Assassins; Brotherhoods;
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Assassin's creed [videorecording] / by Cotillard, Marion,1975-actor.; Fassbender, Michael,1977-actor.; Gleeson, Brendan,actor.; Irons, Jeremy,1948-actor.; Kurzel, Justin,film director.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.;
Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Essie Davis.Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for intense sequences of violence and action, thematic elements and brief strong language.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Templars; Assassins; Brotherhoods;
For private home use only.
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Hell put to shame : the 1921 Murder Farm massacre and the horror of America's second slavery / by Swift, Earl,1958-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to learn, the dead were among thousands of Black men enslaved throughout the South in conditions nearly as dire as those before the Civil War. Hell Put to Shame tells the forgotten story of that mass killing and of the revelations about peonage, or debt slavery, that it placed before a public self-satisfied that involuntary servitude had ended at Appomattox more than fifty years before. By turns police procedural, courtroom drama, and political exposé, Hell Put to Shame also reintroduces readers to three Americans who spearheaded the prosecution of John S. Williams, the wealthy plantation owner behind the murders, at a time when white people rarely faced punishment for violence against their Black neighbors. The remarkable polymath James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed the first Black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, marshaled the organization into a full-on war against peonage. Johnson's lieutenant, Walter F. White, a light-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Black man, conducted undercover work at the scene of lynchings and other Jim Crow atrocities, helping to throw a light on such violence and to hasten its end. And Georgia governor Hugh M. Dorsey won the statehouse as a hero of white supremacists -- then redeemed himself in spectacular fashion with the "Murder Farm" affair. The result is a story that remains fresh and relevant a century later, as the nation continues to wrestle with seemingly intractable challenges in matters of race and justice. And the 1921 case at its heart argues that the forces that so roil society today have been with us for generations.
Subjects: Case studies.; Manning, Clyde.; Williams, John S.; African Americans; Murder; Peonage; Plantation workers; Trials (Murder);
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Blue Velvet. by Lynch, David,film director.; Hopper, Dennis,actor.; Rossellini, Isabella,actor.; MacLachlan, Kyle,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlanOriginally produced by MGM in 1986.Clean-cut college boy Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) finds his Mayberry-like hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field. His investigation catapults him into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving a disturbed nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a drug-addicted sadist (Dennis Hopper). Soon Jeffrey's led deeper into their depraved existence, finding himself obsessed with this dark, enigmatic underworld...to the point of no return. Directed by David Lynch.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Crime.; Detective and mystery films.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;
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