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Crow Mary : a novel / by Grissom, Kathleen,author.;

"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota--despite Farwell's efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point."--

Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Crow women; Culture conflict; Indigenous peoples; Married people; Métis;

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Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / by Drury, Bob,author.; Clavin, Thomas,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, The French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure and the guide to this epic narrative is none other than America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder Daniel Boone-not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier" that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.; Explorers; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life; Pioneers; Indigenous peoples;

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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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Life of crime [videorecording] / by Aniston, Jennifer.; Cannon, Kevin.; Davis, Julie E.; Fisher, Isla,1976-; Forte, Will.; Junior, Mark Boone.; Mos Def(Rapper); Videoville Showtime.;

Kevin Cannon, Mark Boone Junior, Julie E. Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def, Will Forte, Isla Fisher.The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.

Subjects: Abduction; Comedy films.; Extortion; Feature films.; Married people; Real estate developers;

© c2014., Distributed by Videoville Showtime,

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Before midnight [videorecording] / by Davey-Fitzpatrick, Seamus.; Delpy, Julie,1969-; Hawke, Ethan,1970-; Labed, Ariane.; Linklater, Richard,1960-; Prior, Jennifer.; Tsangari, Athina.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);

Director of photography, Christos Voudouris ; composer, Graham Reynolds ; edited by Sandra Adair.Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed, Athina Tsangari, Jennifer Prior.We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna. Jesse (Hawke) attempts to maintain a relationship with Hank, his teenage son from his first marriage, but their bond is strained even though Hank has just spent the summer with his dad and step-family. Meanwhile, Celine (Delpy) must make a difficult decision about her career.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen ; Dolby digital.

Subjects: Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Romance films.;

© c2013., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,

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As long as we both shall live / by Chaney, JoAnn,author.;

"What happens when you're really, truly done making your marriage work? You can't be married to someone without sometimes wanting to bash them over the head ... As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney's wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets ... "My wife! I think she's dead!" Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below. They start a search, but they aren't hopeful: no one could have survived that fall. It was a tragic accident. But Matt's first wife also died in suspicious circumstances. And when the police pull a body out of the river, they have a lot more questions for Matt. Detectives Loren and Spengler want to know if Matt is a grieving, twice-unlucky husband or a cold-blooded murderer. They dig into the couple's lives to see what they can unearth. And they find that love's got teeth, it's got claws, and once it hitches you to a person, it's tough to rip yourself free. So what happens when you're done making it work?" --

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Family secrets; Homicide investigation; Husbands; Married people; Wives;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Rock, Paper, Scissors. by Yudin, Ivan,film director.; Proffer, Carl,actor.; Proffer Teasley, Ellendea,actor.; Art Seen Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Carl Proffer, Ellendea Proffer TeasleyOriginally produced by Art Seen Films in 2023.Two literary critics in Ann Arbor Michigan take it upon themselves to open a publishing house in the basement of their home and in the process single-handedly change the course of modern Russian literature forever.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Literature.; Arts.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; Russia (Federation).;

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The Russian Woodpecker. by Gracia, Chad,film director.; Kino Lorber (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2015.A thrilling, award-winning investigation into whether the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown was an inside job. Director Chad Gracia follows the unforgettably eccentric artist Fedor Alexandrovich, who reveals to the world an enormous secret Soviet weapon that stands in the shadow of Chernobyl, which Kremlinologists in the 1980s thought might be a giant mind-control device. But what Fedor discovers is much more sinister. Secret police start appearing and one of the crew members is shot by a sniper, as revolution, paranoia and terror engulf the crew. This Sundance Grand Jury winner and darling of critics worldwide pushes the boundaries of the documentary form while telling a crucial story about the deadly dance between Ukraine and Russia.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Environmental sciences.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; History.;

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Erotic stories for Punjabi widows / by Jaswal, Balli Kaur,author.;

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Families; Panjabis (South Asian people); Women authors; Creative writing;

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The Davenports / by Marquis, Krystal,author.;

The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.012+.Grades 7-9.

Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; African Americans; Families; Love; Rich people; African Americans; Family life; Families; Love; Rich people;

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