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The Keeping room [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Steinfeld, Hailee; Worthington, Sam; Marling, Brit; Otaru, Muna;
Director, Daniel Barber.Hailee Steinfeld, Sam Worthington, Brit Marling, Muna Otaru.In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. The pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants.OFRB rating: 14A.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Drama.; Western.; Drama.; Award Winners.;
© 2016., Drafthouse Films,
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Abu. by Khan, Arshad,film director.; h264 (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by h264 in 2017.An autobiographical film about a gay son's relationship with his devout Muslim father. Arshad Khan, the filmmaker and subject, examines how his father went from an open-minded man to a devout Muslim and breaks down the reasons for such a radical change in personality. Issues of psychological, sexual and physical abuse, and the pangs of rebirth through migration and through coming out, are laid bare using over 30 years of archival family footage that give a glimpse into an extraordinarily well documented family.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; LGBTQ.; Emigration and immigration.; Families.; Canada.;
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This is not a drill : an Extinction Rebellion handbook / by Farrell, Clare,editor.; Green, Alison,1963-editor.; Knights, Sam,editor.; Skeaping, William,editor.;
It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world as we know it. Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel. Extinction Rebellion is a global activist movement of ordinary people, demanding action from Governments. This is a book of truth and action. It has facts to arm you, stories to empower you, pages to fill in and pages to rip out, alongside instructions on how to rebel - from organising a roadblock to facing arrest.
Subjects: Extinction Rebellion (Organisation); Climatic changes; Environmental protection; Environmentalism.; Protest movements.;
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The Gilda stories / by Gomez, Jewelle,1948-author.; Gumbs, Alexis Pauline,1982-writer of afterword.;
This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; African Americans; Lesbian vampires;
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Sparkler. by Stein, Darren,film director.; Harvey, Don,actor.; Prinze, Freddie,actor.; Zabriskie, Grace,actor.; Kennedy, Jamie,actor.; Spencer, Octavia,actor.; Overall, Park,actor.; Martin, Sandy,actor.; Petrarca, Steven,actor.; Cartwright, Veronica,actor.; Strand Releasing (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Don Harvey, Freddie Prinze Jr., Grace Zabriskie, Jamie Kennedy, Octavia Spencer, Park Overall, Sandy Martin, Steven Petrarca, Veronica CartwrightOriginally produced by Strand Releasing in 1997.Melba May is a trailer park princess who decides she needs to radically change her life when she catches her husband in bed with her best friend. After a night of drinking at the local bar she befriends three recent college grads from Los Angeles who are en route to Las Vegas to hopefully win some money to pay rent. She joins them, happy to leave her husband for good -- until he finds out that she has won a million dollar sweepstakes and must hunt her down.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy.; Independent films.;
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A lesson in love & murder [text (large print)] / by McMillan, Rachel,1981-author.;
"The legacy of Sherlock Holmes is alive and well in 1912 Canada, where best friends Merinda Herringford and Jem Watts continue to develop their skills as consulting detectives. Toronto has been thrown into upheaval by the arrival of radical anarchist Emma Goldman. Amid the chaos, Benny Citrone of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police arrives at Merinda and Jem's flat, requesting assistance in locating his runaway cousin--a man with a deadly talent. As they track the danger from Toronto to Chicago, an assassination plot is uncovered."--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Religious fiction.; Large type books.; Women detectives; Missing persons;
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12 angry men [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Fonda, Henry; Balsam, Martin; Warden, Jack; Cobb, Lee J.; Marshall, E.G.; Klugman, Jack; Begley, Ed; Rose, Reginald;
Director, Sidney Lumet.Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Martin Balsam, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden.A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom dramas in cinema history.OFRB rating: PG.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Drama.; National Film Registry.; Drama.; Classics.;
© 2011., The Criterion Collection,
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Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic / by Westhoff, Ben,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of an illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. 'A whole new generation of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,' writes Ben Westhoff. 'These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs'"--
Subjects: Designer drugs.; Fentanyl.; Opioid abuse; Drug addiction; Drug traffic;
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Happy fat : taking up space in a world that wants to shrink you / by Hagen, Sofie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgment and discrimination are rife. From shame and sex to airplane seats, love and getting stuck in public toilets, Sofie provides practical tips for readers - drawing wisdom from other Fat Liberation champions along the way. Part memoir, part social commentary, Happy Fat is a funny, angry and impassioned look at how taking up space in a culture that is desperate to reduce you can be radical, emboldening and life-changing.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Hagen, Sofie.; Body image in women.; Self-acceptance.;
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We refuse to forget : a true story of Black Creeks, American identity, and power / by Gayle, Caleb,author.;
"A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full members. Thanks to the leadership of a chief named Cow Tom--a Black former slave--a treaty with the U.S. government recognized Creek citizenship for its Black members. Yet this equality was shredded in the 1970s when Creek leaders revoked the citizenship of Black Creeks, even those who could trace their tribal history back generations. Why did this happen? What led to this reversal? How was the U.S. government involved? And how can marginalized people today defend themselves? These are some of the questions that award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle explores in this provocative examination of racial and ethnic identity. By delving deep into the historical record and interviewing Black Creeks suing the Creek Nation to have their citizenship reinstated, he lays bare the racism, ambition, and greed at the heart of this story. The result is an eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of marginalization and white supremacy that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans"--
Subjects: Black people; Muskogee; Muskogee; Muskogee;
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