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- Arctic dogs [videorecording] / by Baldwin, Alec,1958-voice actor.; Barlen, Bob,1980-screenwriter.; Cleese, John,voice actor.; Franco, James,1978-voice actor.; Holden, Laurie,voice actor.; Huston, Anjelica,voice actor.; Klum, Heidi,voice actor.; Madsen, Michael,voice actor.; Renner, Jeremy,voice actor.; Sy, Omar,1978-voice actor.; Woodley, Aaron,1971-screenwriter,film director.; Lions Gate Home Entertainment,publisher.;
Voices: Anjelica Huston, Jeremy Renner, James Franco, Alec Baldwin, Laurie Holden, Michael Madsen, John Cleese, Omar Sy, Heidi Klum.Swifty, the Arctic Fox, works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog. To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a mysterious package to a secret location. He stumbles upon a hidden fortress, where he comes face to face with Otto Von Walrus, a blubbery evil genius. He discovers Otto Von Walrus' plan to drill beneath Arctic surface to unleash enough ancient gas to melt the Arctic.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA Rating: PG; for some mild action and rude humor.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Arctic fox; Delivery of goods; Good and evil;
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- Just once, no more : on fathers, sons, and who we are until we are no longer / by Foran, Charles,1960-author.;
"In this vulnerable, honest, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Charles Foran offers a brief and powerful meditation on fathers and sons, love and loss, even as his own father approaches the end of life. Dave Foran was a formidable man of few words, seemingly from a different era than his sensitive, literary son, Charlie. Among other adventures, Dave had lived in the bush, been snow-blinded, hauled a dead body across a frozen lake on a dog sled, dodged a bullet during a bar fight, and gone toe to toe with a bear. Aspects of his life were like tall tales while others were more somber and enigmatic. A decent father to Charlie and his siblings, and a devoted husband to Charlie's mother, Dave was a tough, emotionally distant man, prone to gruff cynicism and a changeable mood. As Charlie writes: "He struggled most days of his life with wounds he could not readily identify, let alone heal ... Not only did my father never get over what had happened to him as a boy, he didn't try. Men usually didn't try back then. And we just had to deal." When Charlie turned 55, his father began a slow and, as it turned out, final decline. And Charlie felt something he'd never imagined before: a mysterious desire to write about his relationship with his father. On the surface, the motivation was to help lift an inchoate burden from his father's shoulders, to reassure him that he was loved. But there was also another, more personal motivation. "Late into the middle of my own lifespan," Charlie writes, "sadness took hold of my being ... I wanted to say so frankly, never mind how glib it sounded, how uncomfortable it made me." In spare, haunting prose, Just Once pulls on these threads--unravelling a fascinating personal story but also revealing its universal context (suggested by the title "Just Once, No More," a quote from a poem by Rilke that applies to all of our brief lives). With its skillful prose, humour, affecting intimacy, and love of life even in the shadow of death and uncertainty, this short but very full book presents a nuanced, moving portrait of a fond but distant father grappling with the end of life as his son acts as witness, solace, and would-be guide while shakily facing his own decline. What story can we tell ourselves and those we love, this memoir asks, to withstand the insecurities of self and the inexorable passage of time?"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Foran, Charles, 1960-; Foran, Dave.; Aging parents; Fathers and sons; Fathers; Parent and adult child;
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- Rubble & crew. [videorecording] / by Handspiker, Luxton,voice actor.; Pugiotto, Alessandro,voice actor.; Elevation Pictures,distributor.;
Alessandro Pugiotto, Luxton Handspiker, Leslie Adlam.Happy Pawlidays! The residents of Builder Cove are about to celebrate the most wonderful Christmas thanks to Rubble & Crew. By building Super Snow Sleds, a giant sled ramp, and an ice-skating rink, the team will make sure everything is ready for the festive season - especially the town's first-ever Christmas show!Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's television programs.; Christmas television programs.; Animated television programs.; Architects and builders; Building; Construction workers; Dogs; Puppies; Friendship; Christmas; Holidays;
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- Against the ice : the classic Arctic survival story / by Mikkelsen, Ejnar,1880-1971,author.; Coster-Waldau, Nikolaj,1970-writer of foreword.; Michael, Maurice,1909-translator.; Mikkelsen, Ejnar,1880-1971.Two against the ice.; translation of:Mikkelsen, Ejnar,1880-1971.Farlig Tomandsfærd.English.;
"Ejnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary's outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expedition's boat needed repair. Several months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on an incredible journey during which they would suffer every imaginable Arctic travail: implacable cold, scurvy, starvation, frostbite, snow blindness, plunges into icy seawater, impossible sledding conditions, Vitamin A poisoning, debilitated dogs, apocalyptic storms, gaping crevasses, and assorted mortifications of the flesh. Mikkelsen's diary was even eaten by a bear. Three years of this, coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue, would drive most crazy, yet the two retained both their sanity as well as their humor. Indeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings ..."--- Subjects: Mikkelsen, Ejnar, 1880-1971; Mikkelsen, Ejnar, 1880-1971; Alabama-expeditionen til Grønlands nordøstkyst (1909-1912);
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