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In winter I get up at night / by Urquhart, Jane,author.;

Includes bibliographical references.In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart's brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm--the "great wind" that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children's ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer's tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother's entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother's dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp--a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century--colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Country life; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Recollection (Psychology); Women teachers; Women;

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Pursuing play : women's leisure in small-town Ontario, 1870-1914 / by Beausaert, Rebecca,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Life in the Canadian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century is often generalized as insular, backwards, and defined by drudgery. These assumptions are redressed in Rebecca Beausaert's Pursuing Play, which highlights the complexity of small-town culture through a lively examination of women's efforts to negotiate space for themselves and their leisure pursuits. Amply illustrated, Pursuing Play draws on diaries, letters, newspapers, and census records to investigate women's recreational activities in three southern Ontario towns -- Dresden, Tillsonburg, and Elora -- between 1870-1914. Though women's recreational choices were restricted by pervasive ideas about propriety, Beausaert reveals how they increasingly spearheaded both formal and informal clubs, events, and social gatherings, and integrated them into their daily lives. In telling the story of what small-town women did for fun while navigating social hierarchies, nurturing ties of kinship and friendship, and advancing community development, Pursuing Play adds a new dimension to Canadian histories of gender, leisure, and popular culture. Encompassing public and private pastimes, the growth of sports, the phenomenon of "armchair travelling," and how easily recreation can slip from reputable to disreputable, this rich study uncovers how gender, class, and ethnicity shaped the nature and scope of women's leisure in small-town Ontario and beyond."--

Subjects: City and town life; City and town life; Leisure; Leisure; Women; Women; Women; Women;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Driven : the secret lives of taxi drivers / by Di Cintio, Marcello,1973-author.;

Includes bibliographical references."The taxi," writes Marcello Di Cintio, "is a border." Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met--yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren't defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan's lyrics, Di Cintio's subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it's a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.

Subjects: Taxicab drivers;

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In Winter I Get Up at Night A Novel [electronic resource] : by Urquhart, Jane.aut; cloudLibrary;

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTELLER • Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books • One of the CBC’s Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024 From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable life. In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart’s brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm—the “great wind” that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children’s ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer’s tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother’s entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother’s dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp—a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century—colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.

Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Family Life; Contemporary Women;

© 2024., McClelland & Stewart,

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Star trek, the original series. [videorecording] / by Courage, Alexander.; Daniels, Marc.; Doohan, James.; Finnerman, Gerald Perry,1931-; Francis, Al,1918-1998.; Kelley, DeForest,1920-1999.; Nimoy, Leonard.; Roddenberry, Gene.; Shatner, William.; Takei, George,1937-; CBS DVD (Firm); CBS Studios Inc.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); Paramount Pictures Corporation.;

Disc 1. The man trap -- Charlie X -- Where no man has gone before.Disc 10. The city on the edge of forever -- Operation: annihilate!Disc 2. The naked time -- The enemy within -- Mudd's women.Disc 3. What are little girls made of? -- Miri -- Dagger of the mind.Disc 4. The corbomite maneuver -- The menagerie, part I -- The menagerie, part II.Disc 5. The conscience of the king -- Balance of terror -- Shore leave.Disc 6. The galileo seven -- The squire of Gothos -- Arena.Disc 7. Tomorrow is yesterday -- Court-martial -- The return of the Archons.Disc 8. Space seed -- A taste of armageddon -- This side of paradise.Disc 9. The devil in the dark -- Errand of mercy -- The alternative factor.Music, Alexander Courage ; director of photographies, Jerry Finnerman ; film editor, Robert L. Swanson.William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett.The spaceship U.S.S. Enterprise, with its 430 crew members captained by James T. Kirk, travels the universe "to boldly go where no man has gone before." Contains all 29 episodes from season one.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Subjects: Interplanetary voyages; Kirk, James T. (Fictitious character); Science and civilization; Science fiction television programs.; Spock (Fictitious character); Star Trek television programs.;

© c2013., Paramount : CBS DVD,

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Perestroika In Paris / by Smiley, Jane,author.;

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. She's dazzled, and often mystified, by the sights, sounds and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthair pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the bakery and the butchershop. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks, and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the secluded, ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great grandmother live, quietly and unto themselves. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom among humans and animals alike. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris? And how long can a boy keep her hidden, and all his own? Jane Smiley's beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity and ingenuity, and expresses the desire of all creatures for true friendship, love, and freedom"--

Subjects: Animal fiction.; Race horses; Animals; Friendship; Human-animal relationships;

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Scarcity brain : fix your craving mindset and rewire your habits to thrive with enough / by Easter, Michael(Health and fitness writer),author.;

Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can't we ever get enough? The author of The Comfort Crisis shows us how to overcome our built-to-crave mindset and discover the tools to finally feel satisfied. Anything is fine in moderation. But why are we so bad at moderating? Michael Easter, one of the world's leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn't you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, power, and more were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern ability to easily fulfill our ancient desire for more, our hardwired "scarcity brain" is now backfiring. And new technology and institutions -- from dating and entertainment apps to our food and economic systems -- are exploiting our scarcity brain. They're bombarding us with subversive "scarcity cues," subtle triggers that lead us into low-reward cravings that hurt us in the long run. Scarcity cues can be direct and all-encompassing, like a sagging economy. Or they can be subtle and slight, like our neighbor buying a shiny new car. Easter traveled the world to consult with remarkable innovators and leading scientists who are finding surprising solutions for our scarcity brain. He discovered simple tactics that can move us towards an abundance mindset, cement healthy habits, and allow us to live our lives to the fullest and appreciate what we have, including how to: Detect hidden scarcity cues to stop cravings before they start, from a brilliant slot machine designer in a Las Vegas casino laboratory ; Turn alone time into the ultimate happiness hack, from artisanal coffee-making Benedictine monks ; Reignite your exploration gene for a more exciting and fulfilling life, from an astronaut onboard the International Space Station ; Reframe how we think about and fix addiction and bad habits, from Iraq's chief psychiatrist ; Recognize when you have enough, from a woman who left a million-dollar career path to adventure the world. Our world is overloaded with everything we're built to crave. The fix for scarcity brain isn't to blindly aim for less. It's to understand why we crave more in the first place, shake our worst habits, and use what we already have better. Then we can experience life in a new way -- a more satisfying way.

Subjects: Self-help publications.; Desire.; Desire; Happiness; Quality of life.; Scarcity.; Scarcity; Self-actualization (Psychology);

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Krypto the Superdog. [videorecording] / by Dobson, Michael,voice actor.; Drummond, Brian,voice actor.; Ghisi, Alberto,voice actor.; Kelamis, Peter,1967-voice actor.; Kennedy, Ellen,voice actor.; Klassen, Terry,voice actor.; McNeil, Scott,1962-voice actor.; Oliver, Mark,1961-voice actor.; St. Germain, Tabitha,voice actor.; Vincent, Sam,1971-voice actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;

Voices: Sam Vincent, Brian Drummond, Scott McNeil, Alberto Ghisi, Tabitha St. Germain, Terry Klassen, Ellen Kennedy, Michael Dobson, Peter Kelamis, Mark Oliver.Taking a bite out of cosmic crime, Krypto The Superdog follows the comedic canine adventures of Metropolis' heroic Superdog from Planet Krypton. After traveling across galaxies as a test pilot pup aboard a malfunctioning rocket ship built by Superman's father, the Kryptonian canine arrives on Earth a full-grown, fun-loving dog in search of a new best friend and family. He finds it in the young Kevin Whitney, who soon realizes that Krypto has superpowers. Thanks to a special intergalactic communicator, Kevin's the only human able to speak with Krypto, who uses his powers of superstrength, heat vision, and flying to fight crime in Metropolis. With the help of Kevin, Ace the Bathound (Batman's caped canine), Streaky, the neighbor's cat, and the super pets in the Dog Star Patrol, Krypto responds to the call of duty, embarking on adventures to save those in need.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.

Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Superhero television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Krypto, the Superdog (Fictitious character); Dogs; Superheroes;

For private home use only.

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Signals - A Space Adventure. by Koldtiz, Gottfried,film director.; Müller, Alfred,actor.; Zharikov, Evgeniy,actor.; Mitic, Gojko,actor.; Karel, Irena,actor.; Ugowski, Karin,actor.; Pawlowski, Piotr,actor.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Alfred Müller, Evgeniy Zharikov, Gojko Mitic, Irena Karel, Karin Ugowski, Piotr PawlowskiOriginally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1970.In the mid-21st century, the research vessel Ikaros has disappeared in space. Commander Veikko of the spaceship Laika assembles a crew to search for the missing ship and its crew. As the team travels through the meteoroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, they receive strange radio signals shortly before discovering the empty wreck of the Ikaros. The signals seem to point to the existence of a foreign civilization and the crew is afraid of a potential threat. Nevertheless, Commander Veikko is convinced that a technologically proficient civilization must be advanced beyond hostility and aggression. A 6K digitization from the original 70mm negatives.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Science fiction.; Motion Pictures.; Motion pictures--Germany.; Action and adventure films.; Outer space.; Science fiction films.; Motion pictures--Europe.;

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