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The Great. [videorecording] / by Barr, Nathan,composer (expression); Boys, Anthony,editor of moving image work.; Bridges, Caroline,director of photography.; Brock, Tricia,television director.; Bromilow, Belinda,1975-actor.; Delgado, Sergio,1961-director of photography.; Derry, Catherine,director of photography.; Dhawan, Sacha,1984-actor.; Di Mottola, Francesca,production designer.; Fanning, Elle,1998-television producer,actor.; Folkson, Sheree,television director.; Fox, Freddie,1989-actor.; Fox, Phoebe,1987-actor.; Gbadamosi, Bayo,actor.; Godley, Adam,actor.; Hodge, Douglas,actor.; Hoult, Nicholas,1989-television producer,actor.; Isaacs, Jason,1963-actor.; Keith-Roach, Florence,actor.; Kesselman, Josh,television producer.; Krishnansen, Kyle,television producer.; Lee, Gwilym,1983-actor.; Long, Sharon(Costume designer),costume designer.; MacGowan, Marian,television producer.; Mahmood, Jaffar,television director.; Mankoff, Doug,television producer.; McDonnell, Edel,editor of moving image work.; Molony, Grace,actor.; Moore, Matthew,1975-television director.; Pickett, Ava,screenwriter.; Sarony, Paul,television producer.; Seres, Fiona,screenwriter.; Sneddon, Billy,editor of moving image work.; Spaulding, Andrew,television producer.; Wakefield, Charity,1981-actor.; Ward, Brittany Kahan,television producer.; West, Ron(Producer),television producer.; Winemaker, Mark,television producer.; television adaptation of (work):McNamara, Tony(Director).Great.; Civic Center Media (Firm),production company.; Echo Lake Entertainment,production company.; Lewellen Pictures (Firm),production company.; Macgowan Films (Firm),production company.; Media Rights Capital (Firm),production company.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.; Piggy Ate Roast Beef Productions (Firm),production company.; Thruline Entertainment (Firm),production company.;

Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan, Charity Wakefield, Gwilym Lee, Adam Godley, Douglas Hodge, Belinda Bromilow, Bayo Gbadamosi, Florence Keith-Roach, Freddie Fox, Grace Molony, Jason Isaacs.The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She's working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at "First Husband" duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon finds himself bored with his lack of power.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.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: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Television comedies.; Television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Historical television programs.; Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796; Peter III, Emperor of Russia, 1728-1762; Empresses; Man-woman relationships;

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The boy in the woods [videorecording] / by motion picture adaptation of (work):Smart, Maxwell,1930-Boy in the woods.; Armitage, Richard,1971-actor.; Klyne, Jett,actor.; Kohlsmith, David,actor.; Snow, Rebecca,1988-screenwriter,film director.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;

Jett Klyne, David Kohlsmith, Richard Armitage.The remarkable true story of Max, a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with Christian peasant Jasko, who hides him in plain sight until a tense standoff with Nazi police. Afraid for his own family's life, Jasko sends Max to live in the woods, where he learns to survive alone. With echoes of a Grimms' fairy tale, Max's experience is both terrifying and magical. He inhabits a landscape crawling with Nazis and partisans and haunted by ghosts.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; War films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Smart, Maxwell, 1930-; Jewish families; Jews; Nazis; World War, 1939-1945; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Wilderness survival; Male friendship;

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Away from the dead / by Bergen, David,1957-author.;

Includes bibliographical references."Away from the Dead is set in the chaotic times of the Russian revolution, and traces the lives of various characters connected through love and family and loyalty. The novel follows the lives of a bookseller south of Kiev who deserts the army and writes poetry to his lover back home; an adopted Mennonite/Ukrainian peasant who runs with the anarchists only to discover that love and the planting of crops is preferable to killing; and in which a Mennonite estate owner steals a young mother's child. Bookseller Julius Lehn is drawn by his first wife into the patriarchal world of a Mennonite colony beside the Dnieper River, where he learns that pacifists can be as vicious as those who fight. After his wife dies, he gains affection for Inna, who has been cast away from her adopted family's estate, and is the sister of Sablin, the peasant who fights with the anarchists and discovers that violence is the domain of both the rich and the poor. By late 1919, Lehn's bookshop in Ekaterinoslav (modern day Dnipro) has been destroyed, and he has returned to be with Inna, whose child is gone, and with the colony under attack. The anarchists, the Bolsheviks, the Whites -- all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice. In a violent world with no end, Sablin and Lehn and Inna choose love, hoping that one can, against all odds, turn away from the dead"--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Anarchists; Booksellers and bookselling; Bookstore owners; Mennonites; War victims;

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Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine / by Applebaum, Anne,1964-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization -- in effect a second Russian revolution -- which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people perished between 1931 and 1933 in the U.S.S.R. In Red famine, Anne Applebaum reveals for the first time that three million of them died not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy, but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: that Stalin set out to exterminate a vast swath of the Ukrainian population and replace them with more cooperative, Russian-speaking peasants. A peaceful Ukraine would provide the Soviets with a safe buffer between itself and Europe, and would be a bread basket region to feed Soviet cities and factory workers. When the province rebelled against collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures. Starving, people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil"--

Subjects: Collective farms; Collectivization of agriculture; Famines; Genocide; Mass murder;

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I survived the Black Death, 1348 / by Tarshis, Lauren.; Dawson, Scott.;

Includes bibliographical references.The deadliest disease in the history of the world... Elsie dreams of becoming a brave warrior like her father, who is an archer fighting in England's war against France. But life isn't fair in 1348 Europe. Peasant girls like Elsie can't be archers or knights or anything exciting. Then one day in the forest, Elsie and her best friend, Humphrey, discover a chest filled with stolen treasures -- and a dangerous secret. At last Elsie has a chance to prove that she's as brave as any knight. Little does she know that a deadly illness -- the Black Death -- has begun its attack on England. It's already killed millions around the world. And now it's come for Elsie.

Subjects: Black Death; Middle Ages;

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Leonardo da Vinci [videorecording].

The film will tell the story of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, best known as Leonardo da Vinci, a fifteenth century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, who left behind artistic works of staggering beauty and detailed sketches of futuristic contraptions of warfare and flight that today are marveled at for their technical ingenuity and foresight. From his birth out of wedlock to a notary and peasant woman and apprenticeship to a distinguished Florentian painter, to his days as a military architect, cartographer, sculptor and muralist for hire, the film will offer an intimate portrait of a singular visionary whose Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and The Vitruvian Man are among the most celebrated works known to man, but whose artistic endeavors sometimes seemed an afterthought to his pursuits in science and engineering.DVD.Library Bound Incorporated

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North Korea journal / by Palin, Michael,author.; Palin, Michael.Diaries.Selections.;

"In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary was widely acclaimed. Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw--and his fleeting views of what the authorities didn't want him to see--but recounts the conversations he had with the country's inhabitants, talks candidly about his encounters with officialdom, and records his musings about a land wholly unlike any other he has ever visited--one that inspires fascination and fear in equal measure. Written with Palin's trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, the journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines."--

Subjects: Diaries.; Palin, Michael; British;

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The immortal King Rao : a novel / by Vara, Vauhini,1982-author.;

"Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao--literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut. His wife, Margie, was an artist with a marketing genius. Together they created a new world order, led by a corporate-run government. Athena's future is now in the hands of its Shareholders--unless she can rejoin the Exes, a resistance group sustaining tech-free lifestyles on low-lying islands. Lyrical, satirical, and profound, The Immortal King Rao obliterates genre to confront the digital age. This gripping, brilliant debut poses an urgent question: can anyone--peasant laborers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical anarchists, social-media followers--ever get free?"--

Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Biotechnology; Climatic changes; Fathers and daughters; Government, Resistance to; High technology industries; Involuntary memory; Memory; Technology and civilization; Women prisoners;

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Avoid the day : a new nonfiction in two movements / by Kirk, Jay,author.;

"Seeking to answer the mystery of a missing manuscript by Béla Bartók, and using the investigation to avoid his father's deathbed, award-winning magazine writer Jay Kirk heads off to Transylvania, going to the same villages where the "Master," like a vampire in search of fresh plasma, had found his new material in the folk music of the peasants. With these stolen songs, Bartók redefined music in the 20th Century. Kirk, who is also seeking to renew his writing, finds inspiration in the composer's unorthodox methods, but begins to lose his tether as he sees himself in Bartók's darkest and most personal work, the Cantata Profana, which revolves around the curse of fathers and sons. After a near-psychotic episode under the spell of Bartók, the author suddenly finds himself on a posh eco-tourist cruise in the Arctic. There, accompanied by an old friend, now a documentary filmmaker, the two decide to scrap the documentary and make a horror flick instead-shot under the noses of the unsuspecting passengers and crew. Playing one of the main characters who finds himself inexplicably trapped on a ship at the literal end of the world, alone, and under the influence of the midnight sun, Kirk gets lost in his own cerebral maze, struggling to answer his most plaguing question: can we find meaning in experience?"--Amazon.com.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Kirk, Jay;

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Red roulette : an insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's China / by Shum, Desmond,author.;

Includes bibliographical resources and index."After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants--meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was growing up, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity Shum earned an American college degree and returned to China to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China's male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of the red aristocracy, vaulted into China's billionaire class. Soon they were developing the massive air cargo facility at Beijing International Airport, and they followed that feat with the creation of one of Beijing's premier hotels. They were dazzlingly successful, traveling in private jets, funding multi-million-dollar buildings and endowments, and purchasing expensive homes, vehicles, and art. But in 2017, their fates diverged irrevocably when Desmond, while residing overseas with his son, learned that his now ex-wife Whitney had vanished along with three coworkers. This is both Desmond's story and Whitney's, because she cannot tell it herself."---Amazon.

Subjects: Shum, Desmond.; Duan, Whitney.; Businesspeople; Political corruption;

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