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Breaking cover / by Rimington, Stella,author.;
Still reeling from the loss of her boyfriend in a botched anti-terrorist operation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5's counter-espionage desk, where she's hoping to have relative security to find her feet. However, Russia's incursions into the Crimea and President Putin's determination to silence those who oppose him, wherever they may be, quash that hope. Liz soon finds herself on the hunt for a Russian spy in Britain. And with MI5 and MI6 under painful public scrutiny in the post-Edward Snowden world, security seems like a remote possibility for Liz's team.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Carlyle, Liz (Fictitious character); Great Britain. MI5; Intelligence service; Women intelligence officers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Holi / by Rathburn, Betsy.;
"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to Holi through simple, predictable text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Holī (Hindu festival); Hinduism; Fasts and feasts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kwanzaa / by Rathburn, Betsy.;
"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to Kwanzaa through simple, predictable text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Readers (Primary); Kwanzaa; African Americans; Readers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The skin we're in : [Book Club Set] / by Cole, Desmond,1982-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In May 2015, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook Canada's largest city to its core. Desmond Cole's "The Skin I'm In" exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national prominence, went on to win a number of National Magazine Awards and catapulted its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis: the devastating effects of racist policing; the hopelessness produced by an education system that expects little of its black students and withholds from them the resources they need to succeed more fully; the heartbreak of those vulnerable before the child welfare system and those separated from their families by discriminatory immigration laws. Both Cole's activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, The Skin We're In. Puncturing once and for all the bubble of Canadian smugness and naïve assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year-- 2017-- in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when African refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States, racial epithets used by a school board trustee, a six-year-old girl handcuffed at school. The year also witnessed the profound personal and professional ramifications of Desmond Cole's unwavering determination to combat injustice. In April, Cole disrupted a Toronto police board meeting by calling for the destruction of all data collected through carding. Following the protest, Cole, a columnist with the Toronto Star, was summoned to a meeting with the paper's opinions editor and was informed that his activism violated company policy. Rather than limit his efforts defending Black lives, Cole chose to sever his relationship with the publication. Then in July, at another TPS meeting, Cole challenged the board publicly, addressing rumours of a police cover-up of the brutal beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty police officer and his brother. When Cole refused to leave the meeting until the question was publicly addressed, he was arrested. The image of Cole walking, handcuffed and flanked by officers, out of the meeting fortified the distrust between the city's Black community and its police force. In a month-by-month chronicle, Cole locates the deep cultural, historical and political roots of each event so that what emerges is a personal, painful and comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality. Urgent, controversial and unsparingly honest, The Skin We're In is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Black Canadians; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Discrimination in law enforcement; Minorities; Police brutality; Police misconduct; Police-community relations; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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Eid al-Fitr / by Sabelko, Rebecca.;
""Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to Eid al-Fitr through simple, predictable text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--
Subjects: Readers (Publications); ʻĪd al-Fiṭr; Islam;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The skin we're in : a year of Black resistance and power / by Cole, Desmond,1982-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In May 2015, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook Canada's largest city to its core. Desmond Cole's "The Skin I'm In" exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national prominence, went on to win a number of National Magazine Awards and catapulted its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis: the devastating effects of racist policing; the hopelessness produced by an education system that expects little of its black students and withholds from them the resources they need to succeed more fully; the heartbreak of those vulnerable before the child welfare system and those separated from their families by discriminatory immigration laws. Both Cole's activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, The Skin We're In. Puncturing once and for all the bubble of Canadian smugness and naïve assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year-- 2017-- in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when African refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States, racial epithets used by a school board trustee, a six-year-old girl handcuffed at school. The year also witnessed the profound personal and professional ramifications of Desmond Cole's unwavering determination to combat injustice. In April, Cole disrupted a Toronto police board meeting by calling for the destruction of all data collected through carding. Following the protest, Cole, a columnist with the Toronto Star, was summoned to a meeting with the paper's opinions editor and was informed that his activism violated company policy. Rather than limit his efforts defending Black lives, Cole chose to sever his relationship with the publication. Then in July, at another TPS meeting, Cole challenged the board publicly, addressing rumours of a police cover-up of the brutal beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty police officer and his brother. When Cole refused to leave the meeting until the question was publicly addressed, he was arrested. The image of Cole walking, handcuffed and flanked by officers, out of the meeting fortified the distrust between the city's Black community and its police force. In a month-by-month chronicle, Cole locates the deep cultural, historical and political roots of each event so that what emerges is a personal, painful and comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality. Urgent, controversial and unsparingly honest, The Skin We're In is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Black Canadians; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Discrimination in law enforcement; Minorities; Police brutality; Police misconduct; Police-community relations; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Break up. On purpose. A catalyst for growth / by Kim, John(Psychologist),author.;
"Every breakup is a transformation. A breaking down and breaking through to a new version of who you are now, after you have severed ties. Nothing will change you like a broken heart. Yet every breakup is different. John Kim, the Angry Therapist, has seen thousands of patients through breakups of every brutal, freeing, heartbreaking kind-and he's lived through failed relationships and a divorce of his own. Through his journey as a therapist and as a partner and father, John has identified eight types of unique breakups-and how to get over them"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Conduct of life.; Interpersonal relations.; Self-actualization (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How are you, really : living your truth one answer at a time / by Kutcher, Jenna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.We're living in a cultural shift as we reframe our perspectives around what work/life balance really means. In 'How Are You, Really?', Jenna Kutcher - host of the popular 'Goal Digger podcast' - shares her philosophy on how to live a life that exists outside the tired cliche of having it all". This book will teach you how to soak up the richness of our experiences and create a life that makes room for more actual living.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Identity (Psychology); Interpersonal relations.; Quality of life.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Work-life balance.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book thieves : the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance / by Rydell, Anders,1982-author.; Koch, Henning,1962-translator.; translation of:Rydell, Anders,1982-Boktjuvarna.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves - Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war on literature and history. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlin's public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it.
Subjects: Book thefts; Libraries and national socialism; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Act like a lady : questionable advice, ridiculous opinions, and humiliating tales from three undignified women / by Knight, Keltie,1982-author.; Vanek, Jac,author.; Tobin, Becca,1986-author.;
"The hosts of the popular podcast and E! show LadyGang offer a relatable, empowering, and hilarious take on being unapologetically yourself (even if that's not always your best self) in a manifesto that redefines womanhood for the twenty-first century lady"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Women; Femininity;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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