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- Warrior king / by Smith, Wilbur A.,author.; Harper, Tom,1977-author.;
South Africa, 1820. When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mist alone, refusing to take the child -- Harry -- with him, Ann is left with no choice but to raise the boy as her own. After two years of disaster and hardship in the African interior, desperation drives Ann and Harry back into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked man. Ralph Courtney has recently escaped from Robben Island and is determined to seek his fortune in Nativity Bay, the hidden harbour that his father told him about when he was a boy. But it isn't long before Ralph, Ann and their fellow settlers learn that Nativity Bay now lies on the borders of a mighty kingdom, where the warrior king Shaka rules. With no means of making their way back to Algoa Bay, Ralph is forced into a bargain with the Zulu king which will lead him to confront the past that he has been running from for his entire life.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Epic fiction.; Novels.; Shaka, King of the Zulu, 1787?-1828; Adventure and adventurers; Courtney family (Fictitious characters);
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- Breaker Morant [videorecording] / by Beresford, Bruce,film director,screenwriter.; Brown, Bryan,1947-actor.; Thompson, Jack,1940-actor.; Waters, John,1948-actor.; Woodward, Edward,1930-2009,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Ross, Kenneth,1941-Breaker Morant.Videorecording.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
Director of photography, Donald McAlpine ; editor, Harold Lander.Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Rod Mullinar.During the Boer war, a champion horse trainer and two other Australian officers are court-martialed for murdering civilians.MPAA Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital.- Subjects: Morant, Breaker, 1865-1902; Ross, Kenneth, 1941-; Great Britain. Army. Bushveldt Carbineers; Feature films.; South African War, 1899-1902; Trials (Military offenses);
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- Safe house [videorecording] / by Arnezeder, Nora,1988-; Blades, Rubén.; Espinosa, Daniel,1977-; Farmiga, Vera.; Gleeson, Brendan.; Guggenheim, David.; Patrick, Robert,1958-; Reynolds, Ryan.; Shepard, Sam,1943-; Stuber, Scott.; Washington, Denzel,1954-; Bluegrass Films (Firm); Relativity Media.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm); Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Camera, Oliver Wood ; production design, Brigitte Broch ; editor, Richard Pearson ; music, Ramin Djawadi.Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Ruben Blades, Nora Arnezeder, Robert Patrick.Tobin Frost, one of the CIA's most dangerous traitors, resurfaces in South Africa after eluding capture for almost a decade. During his interrogation, the safe house he's being held in is attacked by brutal mercenaries, forcing rookie agent Matt Weston to take the infamous Frost on the run. As the masterful manipulator toys with his reluctant protege, shaking the young operative's morality and idealism, the unlikely allies must fight to stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.- Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Action and adventure films.; Criminals; Feature films.; Traitors;
- © c2012., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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- Safe house [videorecording] / by Arnezeder, Nora,1988-; Blades, Rubén.; Espinosa, Daniel,1977-; Farmiga, Vera.; Gleeson, Brendan.; Guggenheim, David.; Patrick, Robert,1958-; Reynolds, Ryan.; Shepard, Sam,1943-; Stuber, Scott.; Washington, Denzel,1954-; Bluegrass Films (Firm); Relativity Media.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm); Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Camera, Oliver Wood ; production design, Brigitte Broch ; editor, Richard Pearson ; music, Ramin Djawadi.Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Ruben Blades, Nora Arnezeder, Robert Patrick.Tobin Frost, one of the CIA's most dangerous traitors, resurfaces in South Africa after eluding capture for almost a decade. During his interrogation, the safe house he's being held in is attacked by brutal mercenaries, forcing rookie agent Matt Weston to take the infamous Frost on the run. As the masterful manipulator toys with his reluctant protege, shaking the young operative's morality and idealism, the unlikely allies must fight to stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Blu-ray ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.- Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Action and adventure films.; Criminals; Feature films.; Traitors;
- © c2012., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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- Rough Aunties. by Longinotto, Kim,film director.; Royal Anthropological Institute (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 2008.Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to justice. Born out of recognition of cultural stigmas that discourage reporting abuse and inadequate methods of communicating with young victims, Bobbi Bear developed a method of letting children use teddy bears to explain their abuse. Since 1992, the multiracial staff has become the fearless and powerful voice for those victims who would otherwise continue to live in fear, powerless against their oppressors and ignored by the legal system.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; African studies.; Foreign study.; Child welfare.; Human rights.; Sociology.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; Children.; Humanitarianism.; South Africa.; Africa.; Social justice.; Child abuse.;
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- The promise / by Galgut, Damon,1963-author.;
Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa: Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country-- an atmosphere of resentment, renewal, and ultimately hope.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Families; Dysfunctional families; Brothers and sisters; Promises; Funeral rites and ceremonies;
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- The son of the house / by Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi,1978-author.; Cleveland, Karen,author.;
"Celebrating the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world. In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers' endless chores. Although a housemaid since the age of ten, she is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man's son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery love-struck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife. When dramatic events straight out of a movie force Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate. Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia's debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria, and celebrates the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Abused women; Kidnapping; Social classes; Women;
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- Big little journeys [videorecording] / by Williams, Paul(Film producer),television director,television producer.; McKee, Elsa,television director.; Young, Amy(Film editor),television director.; Fabbri-Kennedy, Valeria,television director.; BBC Studios,distributor.;
Narrated by Aaron Pierre.Follow the real-life adventures of six tiny animals as they journey into the unknown - across rainforests, mountains and wetlands. The cast of animals includes a family of endangered golden-headed lion tamarins in Brazil, gymnastic bushbabies in South Africa and the rare Taiwanese Formosan pangolin - the world's most trafficked animal. Against the odds, the animals overcome huge obstacles, giant predators and natural disasters in their quest for food, family and survival. Working with scientists and conservationists around the world, the series captures the dramatic adventures faced by these tiny but mighty creatures.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television mini-series.; Wildlife television programs.; Nature television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Animals; Animal behavior.; Body size.; Bush babies; Golden lion tamarin; Pangolins; Endangered species.; Arvicola; Chameleons; Turtles;
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- The Djinn waits a hundred years / by Khan, Shubnum,author.;
"An ... atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago ... Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret-and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Boardinghouses; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Haunted houses; Jinn; Mansions; Secrecy; Tragedy;
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- Discovery atlas. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Harrison, Cassian.; Rossellini, Isabella.; Spader, James.; Ward, Sela.; Discovery Channel (Firm); Image Entertainment (Firm);
China revealed -- Italy revealed -- Brazil revealed -- Australia revealed -- South Africa revealed -- France revealed -- Japan revealed -- Mexico revealed -- Egypt revealed -- Russia revealed -- India revealed.Narrators: James Spader, Isabella Rossellini, Sela Ward, Russell Crowe, Edward James Olmos, Andre Braugher, Mira Nair, Candice Bergen, Masi Oka, Omar Metwally, Tatyana Yassukovich.Explores the people and landscapes of various countries worldwide.E.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; widescreen presentation.- Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Travelogues (Television programs);
- © c2009., Image Entertainment,
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