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- The difference / by Endicott, Marina,1958-author.;
From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912. Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world. At the heart of The Difference is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions--which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her--about what is forgivable and what is right. Inspired by a true story, Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay's examination of the idea of "difference"--between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species. The Difference is a breathtaking novel by a writer with an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Sisters; Life change events; Ocean travel; Interethnic adoption; Difference (Psychology);
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The observer / by Endicott, Marina,1958-author.;
"A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows. When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new life to old friends from the city, but can find no shared vocabulary to convey this rural reality, let alone police life. As Hardy disappears into long days at work, Julia takes a job as editor of the local newspaper, the Observer. Interviewing people to compose a view of the town each week, she gathers knowledge of the community's surface joys and sorrows; meanwhile, Hardy is immersed in violence and loss, and Julia can only witness his increasing exhaustion. At first this new life together is an adventure, but as in all the best stories, time darkens and deepens it. Grounded in Marina Endicott's own experience in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, The Observer is an essential story from one of our most beloved storytellers. Endicott writes with the sure pacing and insight of a master novelist, piecing haunting details into a quietly devastating revelation of the fragility of life and law in a tightknit community."--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; City and town life; Communities; Journalists; Married people; Police spouses;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Inventory of a life mislaid : an unreliable memoir / by Warner, Marina,1946-author.; Herxheimer, Sophie,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Marina Warner was born in 1946 to an English father and an Italian mother who had met during the war. In this beautiful memoir, Warner reaches back to their wartime meeting, romance, and the precarious tale of her wilful mother making the difficult move to London. It is also the story of Warner's childhood spent in Cairo, in a time when Egypt was in revolution and tumult, as well as her adolescence and life thereafter.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Warner, Marina, 1946-; Authors, English; Novelists, English;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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La Voz de A Mariña
Mode of access: Internet.
- Subjects: News;
- © , La Voz de Galicia
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La Voz de Galicia (A Mariña)
Mode of access: Internet.
- Subjects: News;
- © , La Voz de Galicia
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- Smuggler's Cove / by Michaels, Fern,author.;
"Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln livedin privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Since then, Madison has carved out a new path, studying fashion and working her way up to editor-in-chief of La Femme magazine, while Lincoln teaches wealth management at a small college outside the city. Both have separated themselves from their family and their past -- until an unexpected bequest arrives from their late uncle. Madison and Lincoln are now the new co-owners of a marina at Smugglers Cove on the Navesink river. Instead of a fabulous, Hamptons-style property, Smugglers Cove offers little beyond a dilapidated dock, a few gas pumps, and a handful of clam boats. Madison's plan to sell the property goes awry when a dead body is found floating under their dock and transforms their new inheritance into a crime scene"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Alienation (Social psychology); College teachers; Inheritance and succession; Marinas; Siblings; Women editors;
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- My Christmas Prince. by Irvin, Sam,film director.; Knapp, Alexis,actor.; Shaughnessy, Charles,actor.; Carr, Jane,actor.; Sirtis, Marina,actor.; Sue, Pamela,actor.; Stevenson, Parker,actor.; Lifetime (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alexis Knapp, Charles Shaughnessy, Jane Carr, Marina Sirtis, Pamela Sue Martin, Parker StevensonOriginally produced by Lifetime in 2017.Samantha, a dedicated teacher in Manhattan, returns to her home town of Maple Falls, Wyoming every year for Christmas. This year, she's delighted when her boyfriend Alex, a European diplomat from the tiny country of Madelvia, decides to joins her.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Romance.; Christmas films.;
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- Malinalli / by Chapa, Veronica,author.;
"An imaginative retelling of the triumphs and sorrows of one of the most controversial and misunderstood women in Mexico's history and mythology. A real-life historical figure, the woman known as Malinalli, Malintzin, La Malinche, Doña Marina, and Malinalxochitl was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés communicate with the native people of Mexico. When indigenous leaders observed her marching into their cities, they believed she was a goddess -- blessed with the divine power to interpret the Spaniards' intentions for their land. Later, historians and pop culture would deem her a traitor -- the "Indian" girl who helped sell Mexico's future to an invader. In this riveting, fantastical retelling, Malinalli is all of those things and more, but at heart, she's a young girl, kidnapped into slavery by age twelve, and fighting to survive the devastation wrought by both the Spanish and Moctezuma's greed and cruelty. Blessed with magical powers, and supported by a close-knit circle of priestesses, Mali vows to help defend her people's legacy. In vivid, compelling prose, debut author Veronica Chapa spins an epic tale of magic, sisterhood, survival, and Mexican resilience. This is the first novel to reimagine and reinterpret Malinalli's story with the empathy, humanity, and awe she's always deserved."--
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Marina, approximately 1505-approximately 1530; Magic; Nahuas; Revenge; Translating and interpreting; Young women;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Resident evil. [videorecording] / by Amell, Robbie,1988-actor.; Hopper, Tom,1985-actor.; Jogia, Avan,1992-actor.; John-Kamen, Hannah,1989-actor.; Logue, Donal,1966-actor.; Mazepa, Marina,actor.; McDonough, Neal,actor.; Scodelario, Kaya,1992-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Kaya Scodelario, Robbie Amell, Hannah John-Kamen, Neal Mcdonough, Tom Hopper, Donal Logue, Avan Jogia, Marina Mazepa.Witness the beginning of Evil. Raccoon City, which was once a booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, is now a dying Midwestern town. The company's exodus left the city a wasteland ... with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Zombie films.; Biological warfare; Mutagens; T cells; Umbrella Corporation (Imaginary organization); Virus-vector relationships; Zombies;
- For private home use only.
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The work helicopter / by Smith, Annette.; McAllan, Marina.;
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- Subjects: Helicopters; Helping behavior;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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