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Daddy, I'm a zombie [videorecording] / by Espinach, Joan.; Katiana, Danny.; Ramon, Ricardo.; Torres, Daniel,1958-; Wharton, Kim.; Abra Prod (Firm); Phase 4 Films (Firm);
Kim Wharton, Danny Katiana.Dixie is a thirteen year old girl, unhappy with her life. Her parents separated five years ago and her peers at school think she's weird. One night during a storm, Dixie suffers an accident and wakes up in the middle of a cemetery, as a zombie! With the help of Isis, an Egyptian mummy, and Gonner, a pirate zombie, Dixie seeks out a strange man in the forest who holds the key to returning her back to life.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen, 16x9, (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1; Region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Teenage girls; Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Zombies films.; Zombies;
© c2013., Distributed by Phase 4 Films,
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Anne with an E. [videorecording] / by Walley-Beckett, Moira,creator,screenwriter.; television adaptation of (work):Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of green gables.; McNulty, Amybeth,2001-actor.; James, Geraldine,actor.; Bela, Dalila,actor.; Northwood Entertainment,production company.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),publisher.; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,broadcaster.;
Directors, Helen Shaver, Paul Fox, Ken Girotti, Anne Wheeler, Norma Bailey, Amanda Tapping.Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, Dalila Bela, Lucas Jade Zumann, Aymeric Jett Montaz.In Season 3 of Anne with an E, Anne (Amybeth McNulty) turns 16 and hungers to learn more about her birth parents. A Mi'kmaq nation camp brings new ideas and friendships to Avonlea -- and new tensions. The kids enter their final year of school and prepare for college entrance exams, but the perils of first love, first kisses, and first heartbreak prove far more complicated. As the twentieth century looms, some continue to look forward while others cling to more traditional ways, but one thing is clear -- nothing will ever be the same again.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.; Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character); Teenage girls; Orphans;
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Desperate / by Palmer, Daniel,1969-;
Gage Dekker and Anna Miller think their prayers for a child have been answered when they find a woman looking for adoptive parents, but soon things turn for the worse when the woman begins to wage psychological warfare on them.LSC
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Remarried people; Miscarriage; Pregnant teenagers; Adoption;
© 2014., Kensington Books,
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The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness [electronic resource] : by Haidt, Jonathan.aut; Pratt, Sean.nrt; Haidt, Jonathan.nrt; cloudLibrary;
From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life. *Includes a downloadable PDF of charts, graphs, and images from the book
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Mental Health; Teenagers; Stress Management;
© 2024., Penguin Random House,
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The secret summer promise / by Brown, Keah,author.;
"THE BSE (Best Summer Ever) LIST! 1. Blueberries. 2. Art show in ShoeHorn. 3. Lizzo concert. 4. Thrift shop pop-up. 5. Skinny Dipping at the lake house. 6. Amusement Park Day! 7. Drew Barrymarathon. 8. Paintball day. Oh, and ... . 9. Fall out of love with Hailee. Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Two summers ago, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She's waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don't tell them that), she's going to live it up. There's just one thing that could ruin it: Her best friend, Hailee, finding out Andrea's true feelings. So Andrea WILL fall out of love with Hailee--even if it means dating the cute boy George who keeps showing up everywhere with a smile. Do we want Andrea to succeed? No! Does she? We're not telling!"--Ages 12-18.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Lesbian romance fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Lesbians; Love; Teenage girls; Friendship; Lesbians; Love; Teenage girls;
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The last boss of Brighton : Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the rise of the Russian mob in America / by Century, Douglas,author.;
Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. "Biba," is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he's survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba's story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America. Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Biba's brutal upbringing left him hungry for more--more power, control, and money. Taking advantage of the rampant corruption in the Soviet Union, Biba's teenage hooliganism quickly turned into bolder "black cash" rackets, making him, by Soviet standards, a very rich young man. When authorities took notice and threatened him with "the supreme measure"-- execution by firing squad--he managed to get out of the USSR just in time. Within months of landing in America, his intimidating presence and street smarts quickly made him legendary in the Soviet émigré community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and launched him to the top of New York's Russian Jewish mob, one of the world's most inventive, powerful and violent criminal organizations. After decades as a globe-trotting boss, and three stints in U.S. federal prisons he remains unbroken and unrepentant, even as his entire life has unraveled around him. Now seventy-four years old, Biba is a lion in winter. Douglas Century vividly brings the notorious gangster to life in these pages, telling not only his epic journey but also the history of the Russian mob in America.
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Nayfeld, Boris.; Organized crime; Russian American criminals;
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Mud lilies / by Ramayan, Indra,author.;
"The night fourteen-year-old Chanie Nyrider ran away from her abusive parents, she was saved by an older woman who eventually offered Chanie a new life working as a prostitute. With nowhere to turn, Chanie was drawn into Edmonton's dark underbelly, where she survived until arrested four years later. She was given two options : jail or a high school program for troubled youth. Chanie reluctantly agrees to attend the program so that she can maintain her freedom and get to know her new love interest, Blue. As she begins to make strides in the program and friends who share similar circumstance, her home life deteriorates. Blue becomes unstable, deceitful, and eventually violent. He is not the man she thought he was. Mud Lilies is the powerful story of a young woman finding a path of hope in the darkest of places and defiantly choosing to pursue it"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Abusive men; Hope; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Teenage prostitution; Young women;
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The girls in the wild fig tree : how I fought to save myself, my sister, and thousands of girls worldwide / by Leng'ete, Nice,author.; Butler-Witter, Elizabeth,author.;
"Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya by relatively progressive parents. Her father established a wildlife sanctuary, which was managed by the Maasai themselves rather than outside interests, and watching how he created a consensus by meeting people where they are gave Nice a lesson for the rest of her life. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents both fell sick and died - it took years for her to understand that they had died of AIDS. Nice and Soila were taken in by their father's brother, who had little interest in whether the girls stayed in school. He expected that the sisters would undergo the ritual referred to as "the cut" (female genital mutilation), which would make them acceptable Maasai women and signal their readiness to be married. Fearing the ritual cut, which Nice had witnessed as a painful, bloody, and sometimes deadly procedure, Nice and Soila climbed a tree to hide. Nice hoped they could eventually run away, and delay the cut forever, but Soila knew that their uncle would not let both girls defy the rules. But maybe one of them could escape it, if the other submitted. After Soila chose to undergo the surgery, sparing Nice, who was still only nine, their lives diverged in the ways Nice had predicted. While Soila married, dropped out of school, and had children - all in her teenage years - Nice continued with her education, postponing receiving the cut at each school break, and became the first in her family to attend college. While at boarding school, at around age 16, Nice began training with Amref, an organization working for healthcare advances in Africa, after they had heard that she had been successfully talking to girls in her village about FGM. Even after she departed for Nairobi for college, she continued her outreach and made inroads in improving sexual education and feminine hygiene by conversing with the young girls, using herself as an example for what was possible. Changing the minds of the men was the biggest obstacle - as a rule in Maasai culture, women do not lead discussions with men - but again she started at the base, with the young unmarried men, before bringing her ideas about new, alternative ceremonial rites for girls to the tribe's elders. One by one, families agreed to end FGM. Girls were allowed to forgo the cut and stay in school. Men began marrying women who were whole. Nice's town has since ended FGM entirely, and her goal is to end the practice worldwide. Nice's journey from "heartbroken child and community outcast, to leader of the Maasai" is an inspiration and a reminder that one person can change the world - and every girl is worth saving"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Leng'ete, Nice; Amref Health Africa.; Female circumcision; Maasai (African people); Maasai (African people); Women, Maasai;
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The high season : a novel / by Blundell, Judy,author.;
"On Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, Ruthie, her still-adored ex-husband, Mike, and the couple's sullen fifteen-year-old daughter, Jem, are packing up the last bits of their household in preparation for the yearly arrival of a wealthy renter from Manhattan. It is what Jem calls "the summer bummer"; her parents own a beautiful house that they have renovated by hand from top to bottom, but which they can only afford to keep by leasing it out during the best part of the year.Soon Ruthie's relationship with Mike seems about to disappear for good. The job she loves, as the underpaid and undervalued director of the local arts museum, is under siege from a coterie of rich women from the city, who want to use it as an opportunity for social climbing. An old flame who once broke her heart and betrayed her is back on the scene, causing Ruthie to re-evaluate their romance. And in the midst of it all, her teenage daughter Jem could be involved in a dangerous and destructive relationship of her own.This is a novel about the dreams and ambitions of youth coming to terms with the realities of middle-age; about the way desperation can make us astonish ourselves; and about how the most disruptive events in our lives can sometimes twist endings into new beginnings"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Vacation homes;
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Livia Lone / by Eisler, Barry,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354).Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them...the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason. Livia has never stopped looking. And she copes with her failure to protect her sister by doing everything she can to put predators in prison. Or, when that fails, by putting them in the ground. But when a fresh lead offers new hope of finding Nason and the men who trafficked them both, Livia will have to go beyond just being a cop. Beyond even being a vigilante. She'll have to relive the horrors of the past. Take on one of the most powerful men in the US government. And uncover a conspiracy of almost unimaginable evil.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Human trafficking victims; Women detectives;
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