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Possess the air : love, heroism, and the battle for the soul of Mussolini's Rome / by Grescoe, Taras,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The inspiring true story of political resistance in Mussolini's Italy Plunging readers into Fascist Rome at the height of Mussolini's power, Possess the Air tells the story of three people who defied Italy's authoritarian despot by opposing the rising tide of populism and xenophobia. Two Canadian archeologists, Gilbert Bagnani and his wife Mary Stewart Houston, maddened the self-styled Caesar, determined to dispel his claims that Rome was-- and always would be-- rightful master of the Mediterranean, while poet and aviator Lauro de Bosis, firstborn of an Italian aristocrat and a New Englander, transformed himself into a modern Icarus, amazing the world as he risked his life in the skies bring the dictator down. An inspiring story of resistance, risk, and sacrifice, Taras Grescoe's portrait of heroes past is an essential biography for our time."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Bagnani, Gilbert, 1900-1985.; Bagnani, Stewart, 1903-1996.; De Bosis, Lauro, 1901-1931.; Anti-fascist movements; Political activists;
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Out of the darkness : the Germans, 1942-2022 / by Trentmann, Frank,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel's tenure in 2021, Germany appeared to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming more than one million refugees, holding together the tenuous threads of the European Union, and making military restraint the center of its foreign policy. Frank Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising portrait spanning eighty years of the conflicted people at the center of Europe, showing how the Germans became who they are today. 'Out of the Darkness' is a gripping and nuanced history of the German people from WWII to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its transformation.
Subjects: Collective memory; Group identity; National characteristics, German.;
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Murder can frost Your doughnut / by Pressey, Rose.;
The ghost of an Elvis impersonator has got psychic painter Celeste Cabot all shook up... Celeste has pulled up in her pink Shasta trailer, aka mobile art studio, to the Sevier County Fair in the mountains of eastern Tennessee to sell her paintings. A highlight of the fair promises to be the celebrity impersonation contest. But the low point is when Celeste and her floppy-eared white Chihuahua Van (short for Van Gogh) find an Elvis impersonator in his trailer doing a great impression of a corpse, clutching a doughnut in his hand. Seeking a vision to solve the crime, Celeste paints her own Elvis portrait-and suddenly the ghost of the Elvis impersonator appears. They say fools rush in, but with the help of this spirit, Celeste sets out to find the real killer among all the fake celebrities. It's now or never, because there won't be time to tell the killer- "Don't be cruel."
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Women artists; Craft festivals; Murder; Psychic ability; Ghosts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fifty years honouring Canadians : the Order of Canada, 1967-2017 / by McCreery, Christopher,author.; Vanier, Jean,1928-writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Over the past fifty years more than 6,000 Canadians have been appointed to the Order of Canada. This illustrated history traces the Order's origins, along the way explaining how the merit-based honour got its familiar snowflake insignia. Replete with gorgeous illustrations, this book provides an accessible window into our national honour."--
Subjects: Order of Canada; Decorations of honor;
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The four winds / by Hannah, Kristin,author.;
"An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli--like so many of her neighbors--must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Migration, Internal; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939; Droughts; Depressions; Farmers; Mothers and daughters; Families; Farm life;
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Little gods : a novel / by Jin, Meng,author.;
On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China-- to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Chinese American women; Immigrants;
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Hondros [videorecording] / by Campbell, Greg,film director.; Freestyle Digital Media,film distributor.;
Chris Hondros.Hondros explores the life and legacy of late war photojournalist Chris Hondros, who covered every major world event since the late 1990s, taking viewers behind the scenes to tell the untold stories of many of Hondros's most iconic photographs. The film follows director Greg Campbell, Hondros's childhood friend and fellow journalist on a global journey to visit the people and places made famous by Hondros's photos. What emerges is a detailed portrait of a deeply sensitive man whose innate humanity impacted the people he encountered in long-lasting and unexpected ways.The film also serves to illustrate the power and importance of photojournalism in a time of vast changes in how news --and images in particular --is produced and consumed, making the point that the work of skilled and courageous photojournalists is as important now as it's ever been.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Hondros, Chris, 1970-2011.; Photojournalists; War correspondents.; War photography.;
For private home use only.
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Bad ideas : a novel / by Marston, Missy,author.;
"Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that--a string of bad ideas--and the absurdity of love. Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy's mother, Claire. Claire still pines for Trudy's father, a St. Lawrence Seaway construction worker who left her twenty years ago. Claire believes in true love. Trudy does not. She's keeping herself to herself. But when Jules Tremblay, aspiring daredevil, walks into the Jubilee restaurant, Trudy's a goner. Loosely inspired by Ken "the Crazy Canuck" Carter's attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, and set in a 1970s hollowed-out town in eastern Ontario, Bad Ideas paints an indelible portrait of people on the forgotten fringes of life. Witty and wise, this is a novel that will stay with you a long time."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Small cities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Discovering watercolor : an inspirational guide with techniques and 32 skill-building projects and exercises / by Lefèvre, Jennifer,author.; translation of:Lefèvre, Jennifer.J'ose l'aquarelle.English.;
A stunning and skill-building guide to take your watercolour painting techniques to the next level, This book has everything you need to become a master artist. Its practical advice will help you to take your first steps in the medium and then progress in your practice, this must-have guide then features over 30 watercolour projects that slowly advance in difficulty and cover a wide range of subjects and techniques. Starting with exercises to help you understand colour and create patterns before building your skills to produce floral compositions, nature landscapes and realistic portraits. It provides step-by-step instructions to guide you through each challenge so you grow in confidence and discover your own personal style. Also included within these pages are real life testimonies from other artists to further inspire your journey in the world of watercolor art.
Subjects: Watercolor painting;
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Going to Mars. by Brewster, Joe,film director.; Stephenson, Michèle,film director.; Giovanni, Nikki,actor.; Kino Lorber (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Nikki GiovanniOriginally produced by Kino Lorber in 2023.Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition, this beguiling documentary portrait follows poet and activist Nikki Giovanni as she approaches 80. The film explores Giovanni’s Afrofuturist-feminist philosophical outlook as well as her poignant relationship with her family, her political audacity, and her poetic eloquence, all knit together with a constant eye and ear for its subject’s own aesthetic verve. Looking back at a personal life and history cast in the long shadow of American racism, and forward to hopeful, possible futures, Giovanni acts as our guide and narrator, with refreshingly unorthodox filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson refraining from traditional chronologies or talking-head conventions. GOING TO MARS is fueled by constant intellectual engagement and radical imagination in the search for emotional and political fulfillment in a world of disenfranchisement.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Literature.; Arts.; History, Modern.; Human rights.; Sociology.; Homosexuality.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; LGBTQ.; Artists.; Current affairs.; History.; Poetry.; African Americans.; Biography.;
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