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The sun at midnight [videorecording] / by Anderako, Mark,actor.; Carthew, Kirsten,film director.; Howard, Duane,1963-actor.; Jacobs, Devery,1993-actor.; Jerome, Sarah,actor.; Monterey Media Inc.,publisher.;
Devery Jacobs, Duane Howard, Mark Anderako, Sarah Jerome.Sixteen-year-old Native American 'city girl' Lia, is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother in a small community in Canada's breathtaking Northwest Territories. Desperate to return home she steals a boat and becomes lost in the vast wilderness where she is discovered by Alfred, a Gwich'in hunter. Reluctantly taking her under his wing, their unexpected friendship develops and both will be tested when Alfred is severely wounded in a bear attack and Lia fights to save their lives.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: R.DVD; Widescreen presentation ; 5.1 surround sound, stereo.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bear attacks; Friendship; Teenage girls; Wilderness survival; Human-animal relationships; Indians of North America;
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The Knowing [electronic resource] : by Talaga, Tanya.aut; cloudLibrary;
From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, “Indian hospitals” and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada’s greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment. The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide. Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today. 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Canada; Native American; Indigenous Studies;
© 2024., HarperCollins Canada,
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My road from Damascus : a memoir / by Saeed, Jamal,1959-author.; Cobham, Catherine,translator.;
"Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process. My Road from Damascus not only tells the story of Saeed's severe years in Syria's most notorious military prisons but also his life during the country's dramatic changes. Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 1950s right up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. It paints a picture of village life, his rebellion as a young Marxist and evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a teenager for 30 months while being hunted by the secret police, his youthful love affairs, how he survived his brutal prison years, his final release, and his family's harrowing escape to Canada. While many prison memoirs focus on the cruelty of incarceration, My Road from Damascus offers a tapestry of Saeed's whole life. It looks squarely at brutality, but also at beauty and poetry, hope and love."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Saeed, Jamal, 1959-; Authors, Canadian; Political refugees; Political refugees;
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Tower heist [videorecording] / by Affleck, Casey,1975-; Alda, Alan,1936-; Beck, Christophe.; Broderick, Matthew,1962-; Collage, Bill.; Cooper, Adam.; Grazer, Brian,1953-; Griffin, Ted.; Helfrich, Mark.; Hirsch, Judd.; Leoni, Téa,1966-; Murphy, Eddie,1961-; Nathanson, Jeff.; Peña, Michael,1976-; Ratner, Brett.; Roth, Kim.; Sidibe, Gabourey.; Spinotti, Dante.; Stiller, Ben,1965-; Imagine Entertainment (Firm); Relativity Media.; Universal Pictures (Firm); Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Dante Spinotti ; editor, Mark Helfrich ; music, Christophe Beck.Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Tea Leoni, Michael Pena, Gabourey Sidibe.Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, dual layer format ; anamorphic widescreen presentation (2.40:1) ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, French, and Spanish soundtracks), Dolby digital 2.0 stereo (described video track); region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Housing management; Pensions; Revenge; Securities theft; Swindlers and swindling;
© c2012., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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Before the lights go out : a season inside a game worth saving / by Fitz-Gerald, Sean,author.;
" A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of Canada's best sports writers. Canadian hockey is approaching a state of crisis. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part. These signs worried Sean Fitz-Gerald. As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, he wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point: a season with the Peterborough Petes, a storied OHL team far from its former glory in a once-emblematic Canadian city that is finding itself on the wrong side of the country's changing demographics. Fitz-Gerald profiles the players, coaches and front office staff, a mix of world-class talents with NHL aspirations and Peterborough natives happy with more modest dreams. Through their experiences, their widely varied motivations and expectations, we get a rich, colourful understanding of who ends up playing hockey in Canada and why. Fitz-Gerald interweaves the action of the season with portraits of public figures who've shaped and been shaped by the game: authors who captured its spirit, politicians who exploited it, and broadcasters who try to embody and sell it. He finds his way into community meetings full of angry season ticket holders, as well as into sterile boardrooms full of the sport's institutional brain trust, unable to break away from the inertia of tradition and hopelessly at war with itself. Before the Lights Go Out is a moving, funny, yet unsettling picture of a sport at a crossroads. Fitz-Gerald's warm but rigorous journalistic approach reads, in the end, like a letter to a troubled friend: it's not too late to save hockey in this country, but who has the will to do it?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Peterborough Petes (Junior hockey team); Hockey teams; Hockey;
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Crazy rich Asians [videorecording] / by Awkwafina,1989-actor.; Chan, Gemma,1982-actor.; Chiarelli, Peter,screenwriter.; Chu, Jon M.(Jon Murray),1979-film director.; Jacobson, Nina,film producer.; Lim, Adele,screenwriter.; Lu, Lisa,actor.; Penotti, John,film producer.; Simpson, Brad,1973-film producer.; Wu, Constance,1982-actor.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ),presenter.;
Constance Wu, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Michelle Yeoh.A native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some suggestive content and language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Americans; Asian Americans; Weddings; Mothers and sons; Man-woman relationships; Rich people; Social conflict;
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Mrs. Brown's boys. [videorecording] / by Gibney, Jennifer.; O'Carroll, Brendan,1955-; O'Neill, Dermot.; BBC Scotland.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Mammy's ass -- Mammy Christmas -- The virgin Mammy -- Buckin' Mammy -- Who's a pretty Mammy -- Mammy's tickled pink -- Mammy's gamble.Brendan O'Carroll, Jennifer Gibney, Dermot O'Neill.Feast yourself on this triple helping of Mrs. Brown's Boys with the outrageous Christmas Specials. As always, Agnes is only trying to make Christmas perfect for her family but things don't always turn out as planned. We see Agnes competing for the love of Dermot and Maria by trying to provide a more lavish Christmas than Maria's posh Mum Hillary. Trouble brews as Cathy takes exception to her mother opening her mail and instigates a clever plan for revenge. And Agnes fights to stage her very own Nativity play and she is determined to put on the greatest show on earth. Join Agnes and the Brown family for an extra-ordinary Christmas you won't ever forget ... Mrs Brown's Boys: Christmas Crackers.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Christmas; Families; Mother and child; Mothers; Television comedies.;
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The little drummer boy [videorecording] / by Bass, Jules,television producer,television director.; Davis, Katherine,1892-Little drummer boy.[videorecording].; Ferrer, Jose,1912-1992,actor.; Frees, Paul,actor.; Foray, June,actor.; Garson, Greer,1904-1996,narrator.; Rankin, Arthur,Jr,television producer,television director.; Classic Media, Inc.,production company.; Rankin/Bass Productions,production company.; Vivendi Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Told by Greer Garson ; voices: Jose Ferrer, Paul Frees, June Foray.From the producers of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town! The heartwarming story of Aaron, The Little Drummer Boy, who comes upon the birth of baby Jesus and learns that the best gift is one given from the heart. Share the magic of this Original Christmas Classic.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Christmas television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Jesus Christ; Orphans; Star of Bethlehem; Christmas; Drummers (Musicians);
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Justified, city primeval. [videorecording] / by television adaptation of (work):Leonard, Elmore,1925-2013.City Primeval: High noon in Detroit.; Butz, Norbert Leo,actor.; Clemens, Adelaide,1989-actor.; Ellis, Aunjanue,actor.; Curtis-Hall, Vondie,actor.; Holbrook, Boyd,1981-actor.; Ireland, Marin,actor.; Olyphant, Timothy,actor.; Williams, Victor,1970-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Boyd Holbrook, Adelaide Clemens, Vondie Curtis Hall, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz.Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who's already slipped through the fingers of Detroit's finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell's attorney, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well. These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Television crime shows.; United States. Marshals Service; Fathers and daughters; Criminal investigation; Criminals; Man-woman relationships; Psychopaths;
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Undisputed : a champion's life / by Bailey, Donovan,1967-author.;
"From chasing a soccer ball through the fields of his native Jamaica as a child, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada's most thriving cultural mosaics, to his run toward Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But he soon learned he needed to be his own toughest critic if he was going to be the very best. As he rose quickly to prominence in Canada's track scene, others didn't always understand the rigour at work behind his confident demeanour. Media reported, not his determination, but that he was immodest in a way they weren't accustomed to seeing from Canadian athletes, especially track athletes in the wake of the Ben Johnson doping scandal at Seoul in 1988. Bailey was having none of it, and when he called out racism in Canada in a way that contradicted the prevailing idea most Canadians had of their country, he started a media uproar and cracked wide open the nation's moral complacency. Aside from his 100-metre and 4x100 relay golds in Atlanta, Bailey's track career was a litany of records and rare accomplishments, including his audacious 1997 race in Toronto's SkyDome against American 200-metre Olympic champion Michael Johnson to determine who was really the world's fastest man. There would be no disputing the result. For all his talent, Bailey was coached in success long before he was coached in athletics. Following the footsteps of his father, a real estate investor, Bailey was a self-made millionaire by the age of 21 and continued to apply a disciplined mentality to everything he did in life. An Olympic champion, yes, but one mentored in the ways of his mind well before he was taught how to optimize the gifts of his body. Frank about the way Bailey dominated the 100-metre (not even his favourite sport), and unapologetic for pushing those around him as hard as he pushed himself, Undisputed is an athlete's story told with the kind of entertaining and inspiring verve very few of his peers can match."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Bailey, Donovan, 1967-; Athletes, Black; Sprinters; Jamaican Canadians;
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