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All the Other Mothers Hate Me. by Harman, Sarah.;
In this debut novel from NBC News foreign correspondent Sarah Harman, Florence Grimes' ten-year-old son Dylan is the prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of Alfie Risby, her sons bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire. Florence is determined to find Alfie and clear her sons name, but she has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as shed like to believe.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Humorous / General; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense; FICTION / Women;
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The consequences of fear / by Winspear, Jacqueline,1955-author.;
October 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering a message: Maisie Dobbs. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must maintain extreme caution: she's working secretly for the Special Operations Executive, assessing candidates for crucial work with the French resistance. Her two worlds collide when she spots the killer in a place she least expects. She soon realizes she's been pulled into the orbit of a man who has his own reasons to kill-reasons that go back to the last war. As Maisie becomes entangled in a power struggle between Britain's intelligence efforts in France and the work of Free French agents operating across Europe, she must also contend with the lingering question of Freddie Hackett's state of mind. What she uncovers could hold disastrous consequences for all involved.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character); Women journalists; Women private investigators; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Murder;
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Choose me / by Gerritsen, Tess,author.; Braver, Gary,author.;
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful and brilliant, so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there's more to the story, especially after the autopsy reveals that the college senior was pregnant. It could be reason enough for suicide--or a motive for murder.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Suicide; Women detectives; Murder; Secrecy; College teachers; College students;
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Last Christmas [videorecording] / by Clarke, Emilia,1986-actor.; Feig, Paul,film director,film producer.; Delaney, Rob,1977-actor.; Golding, Henry,1987-actor.; Leonard, Lydia,1981-actor.; LuPone, Patti,actor.; Oliver, Ingrid,1977-actor.; Perkins, Sue,1969-actor.; Root, Rebecca,1969-actor.; Serafinowicz, Peter,1972-actor.; Thompson, Emma,screenwriter,actor,film producer.; Yeoh, Michelle,1963-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Serafinowicz, Patti Lupone, Rob Delaney, Sue Perkins, Ingrid Oliver, Rebecca Root, Lydia Leonard.Be it relationships, career, or a recent health crisis, Londoner Kate (Emilia Clark) has never had the best of luck. However, during her current gig clerking at a year-round Christmas shop, she caught the eye of gallantly charming Tom (Henry Golding) ... and as the meet-cute winds into a relationship, she'll come to understand the reason for their instant affinity.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Christmas films.; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Man-woman relationships; Christmas; Heart;
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Traffic : genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral / by Smith, Ben(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and Buzzfeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale in the first two decades of the 21st century helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000's, in that brief moment after the first dotcom crash and before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City rather than Silicon Valley might become tech's center of gravity. There, within a few square blocks, Nick Denton's merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti's sunnier crew at HuffPost and Buzzfeed were building the foundations of click-bait media. It was tech's age of innocence: the old establishment might have been discredited by the Iraq War, but digital news would facilitate the spread of truth. Progressive activists were first to the scene, and for a while it seemed they were the scene. After all, didn't they get Barack Obama elected? Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief, was either there or talked to everyone who was, and in his trademark fashion, he chronicles it all with marvelous lucidity scored with dark wit, sparing no one--and certainly not himself. Denton and Gawker were seen at the time as the black hats, but in Smith's hands the story is much more nuanced: yes, Denton's ideology of radical transparency was problematic, but at least he had an ideology. Jonah Peretti survived long after Denton's Gawker perished because his focus on clicks was relentlessly content-agnostic. But as with the proverbial sorcerer's apprentice, unintended consequences began to gain momentum. At the heart of Traffic is one of the great ironies of our time: the internet, which was going to help the left remake the world in its image, has become the motive force of right populism. As Smith and his colleagues and rivals thought they were inventing digital media, other figures, flickering around the margins of their story, had different designs. People like Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart and Gavin McInnes and Chris Poole, the creator of 4chan, all seemed like minor characters in the narrative in which Nick and Jonah and crew were the stars. By 2020, any reasonable observer might wonder if the opposite wasn't the case. To understand how we got here, Traffic is essential and enthralling reading"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Denton, Nicholas.; Peretti, Jonah.; Digital media; Internet industry; News Web sites;
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Last Christmas [videorecording] / by Clarke, Emilia,1986-actor.; Feig, Paul,film director,film producer.; Delaney, Rob,1977-actor.; Golding, Henry,1987-actor.; Leonard, Lydia,1981-actor.; LuPone, Patti,actor.; Oliver, Ingrid,1977-actor.; Perkins, Sue,1969-actor.; Root, Rebecca,1969-actor.; Serafinowicz, Peter,1972-actor.; Thompson, Emma,screenwriter,actor,film producer.; Yeoh, Michelle,1963-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Serafinowicz, Patti Lupone, Rob Delaney, Sue Perkins, Ingrid Oliver, Rebecca Root, Lydia Leonard.Be it relationships, career, or a recent health crisis, Londoner Kate (Emilia Clark) has never had the best of luck. However, during her current gig clerking at a year-round Christmas shop, she caught the eye of gallantly charming Tom (Henry Golding) ... and as the meet-cute winds into a relationship, she'll come to understand the reason for their instant affinity.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.00:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, 2.0 DVS ; DTS-HD High Resolution Audio 7.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1 ; Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Christmas films.; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Man-woman relationships; Christmas; Heart;
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Orphan black. [videorecording] / by Bruce, Dylan,1980-; Gavaris, Jordan,1989-; Maslany, Tatiana.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Disc 1. Nature under constraint and vexed -- Governed by sound reason and true religion -- Mingling its own nature with it -- Governed as it were by chance.Disc 2. Ipsa scientia potestas est -- To hound nature in her wanderings -- Knowledge of causes, and secret motion of things -- Variable and full of perturbation.Disc 3. Things which have never yet been done -- By means which have never yet been tried.Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Maria Doyle Kennedy.Season two hits the ground running with Sarah in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira. Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone Rachel, dividing and imperiling all the clones. As Sarah discovers more about her past, mysterious newcomers appear. But can they be trusted?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (16x9) presentation; stereo.
Subjects: Human cloning; Murder; Science fiction television programs.; Thrillers (Television programs); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
For private home use only.
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Choose me [sound recording] / by Gerritsen, Tess,author.; Potter, Kirsten,narrator.; Braver, Gary,author.; Brilliance Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Kirsten Potter.Taryn Moore is young, beautiful and brilliant, so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there's more to the story, especially after the autopsy reveals that the college senior was pregnant. It could be reason enough for suicide--or a motive for murder.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); College students; College teachers; Murder; Secrecy; Suicide; Women detectives;
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Hello! I want to die, please fix me : depression in the first person / by Paperny, Anna Mehler,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Frank, eye-opening, heartbreaking and disarmingly funny, Anna Mehler Paperny is a fabulous, vibrant new voice. In her galvanizing memoir-meets-exposé, writing with riveting vitality and intelligence about surviving suicide and the ways we try to talk about and treat depression, she has discovered what eludes many: a way to reach out to us to talk about one of the increasingly concerning medical issues today. An energetic tour-de-force of empathy and desire for understanding, Hello! I Want to Die, Please Fix Me is compelling reading, as well as essential for anyone curious to understand how it feels to be depressed, or whose life, family or friends has been touched by depression. Anna Mehler Paperny is a young journalist from Toronto--a smart, passionate reporter who has contributed to the Toronto Star, Global News, The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and just about every major news outlet you can think of. In her early-twenties, while thriving in her dream job, enjoying warm familial support and a strong social network of friends and colleagues, Anna found herself trapped by feelings of failure and despair. In September 2011, she made her first attempt to kill herself by ingesting a deadly mix of sleeping pills and antifreeze, landing her in the ICU followed by weeks of enforced detention in two different big-city psych wards. This was Anna's entry point into the labyrinthine psychiatric care system--one that is nominally responsible for providing the best reasonable care to millions of Canadians suffering from severe, life-threatening mental illness. Her first stay in the psych ward--at times horrifying, other times boring, hilarious and absurd--was just the beginning of a long recovery and a journey towards understanding, first-hand, the myriad ways our systems and medical practitioners treat--and fail to treat--a disease that afflicts a full fifth of the population. While trying to be a good patient, Anna cannot help but turn her intrepid journalist's eye on the world around her--in the psych ward, as an outpatient, as a survivor enduring the gruelling ordeal of facing concerned family, friends and co-workers; of finding the right meds, the right therapist; of staying insured and employed. Anna's personal account of life in the shadow of self-obliteration explores in searing detail her individual experience of depression, close encounters with fatal self-harm, and the trials and errors of treatment. It is at the same time an illuminating, profound, and utterly original analysis of how we approach mental illness in North America; the novel hypotheses specialists are putting forward to tackle it; and the truth about how primitive our methods of healing sick brains still are."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Paperny, Anna Mehler.; Paperny, Anna Mehler; Mental health services; Depressed persons; Depressed persons; Depression, Mental; Journalists; Depressed persons;
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Fall down 7 times, get up 8 : a young man's voice from the silence of autism / by Higashida, Naoki,1992-author.; Yoshida, KA,translator.; Mitchell, David(David Stephen),translator.;
"A follow-up to its bestselling predecessor, The reason I jump opens an extraordinary, rare window into the mind and world of an autistic, non-verbal person -- now coping with a young man's life. Naoki Higashida wrote The reason I jump as a 13-year-old boy with severe autism, giving us all insight into a world never before open to us. Now he shares his thoughts and experiences as a 24-year-old. Based on his hugely successful blogs in Japan, he gives us, in short powerful chapters, his moving, beautiful insights into life, identity, education, his family, our society, and personal growth. He allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it's raining outside. Introduced by award-winning author David Mitchell (co-translator with his wife KA Yoshida), this book is part memoir, part critique of a world that sees disabilities ahead of the individual, part self-portrait-in-progress of a young man who happens to have autism and wants to help us understand his world better"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Higashida, Naoki, 1992-; Autistic people; Autistic people; Autism.;
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