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- Do not say we have nothing / by Thien, Madeleine,1974-author.;
"An extraordinary novel set in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989--the breakout book we've been waiting for from a bestselling, Amazon.ca First Novel Award winner. Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century. With exquisite writing sharpened by a surprising vein of wit and sly humour, Thien has crafted unforgettable characters who are by turns flinty and headstrong, dreamy and tender, foolish and wise. At the centre of this epic tale, as capacious and mysterious as life itself, are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing voices and an unbreakable bond; Sparrow's ethereal cousin Zhuli, daughter of Swirl and storyteller Wen the Dreamer, who as a child witnesses the denunciation of her parents and as a young woman becomes the target of denunciations herself; and headstrong, talented Kai, best friend of Sparrow and Zhuli, and a determinedly successful musician who is a virtuoso at masking his true self until the day he can hide no longer. Here, too, is Kai's daughter, the ever-questioning mathematician Marie, who pieces together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking a fragile meaning in the layers of their collective story. With maturity and sophistication, humour and beauty, a huge heart and impressive understanding, Thien has crafted a novel that is at once beautifully intimate and grandly political, rooted in the details of daily life inside China, yet transcendent in its universality."--- Subjects: Political fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Composers; Storytellers; Musicians; Mathematicians; Chinese Canadians;
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- Pirates of the Caribbean. [videorecording (DVD) ] / by Arenberg, Lee.; Badelt, Klaus.; Bloom, Orlando,1977-; Bruckheimer, Jerry.; Crook, Mackenzie,1971-; Davenport, Jack,1973-; Depp, Johnny.; Elliott, Ted.; Knightley, Keira,1985-; Morris, Brian.; O'Hare, Damian.; Pryce, Jonathan.; Rivkin, Stephen E.; Rose, Penny.; Rossio, Terry.; Rush, Geoffrey,1951-; Schmidt, Arthur.; Verbinski, Gore.; Wolski, Dariusz A.; Wood, Craig.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); Industrial Light and Magic (Studio); Jerry Bruckheimer Films.; Walt Disney Home Video (Firm); Walt Disney Pictures.;
Director of photography, Dariusz Wolski ; editors, Craig Wood, Stephen Rivkin, Arthur Schmidt ; music, Klaus Badelt ; costume designer, Penny Rose ; production designer, Brian Morris ; visual effects and animation, Industrial Light & Magic.Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Damian O'Hare.The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal. Captain Barbossa kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his crew to live forever as the undead.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback), Dolby digital surround sound ; widescreen presentation.DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Adventure and adventurers; Buried treasure; Feature films.; Pirates; Sailing ships; Swashbuckler films.;
- © c2011., Walt Disney Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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- Chirp! / by Murphy, Mary,1961-;
"Chee chee, says the Wren. Ta-tee-tee, sings the Lark. Tink-tink, calls the Finch. Goodbye to the dark. With the chirp of a sparrow and the warble of a thrush, night turns to morning against a vivid, brightening sky. One by one, each bird wakes up and issues its call, with songs rising into a crescendo until a little bluebird calls for a hush-and finds its own voice. With bold shapes, deeply saturated colors, and simple language, Mary Murphy revels in the joy of sound and offers an ode to individuality sure to enchant the youngest of listeners"--Provided by publisher.Ages 2-5LSC- Subjects: Birds; Birdsongs;
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- Anyone can cake : your complete guide to making & decorating perfect layer cakes / by DePaoli, Whitney,author.;
"Anyone Can Cake brings beautiful, artisan cakes within reach of every home baker. Many professional cake artists appear to have a magical touch where every cake they make looks equally perfect and effortless, so it can be intimidating to home bakers. Whitney DePaoli is here to help. As a self-taught cake artist who has been baking cakes from her home kitchen for over a decade, Whitney shares her best tips and hard-won knowledge to answer all of your cake baking questions, help you avoid common mistakes and master the building blocks that make a great cake"--- Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Baking.; Cake decorating.; Cake.;
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- Sky / by Driver, Sarah(Children's fiction writer);
Seek the scattered Storm-Opals of Sea, Sky and Land, before an enemy finds them and uses them to wield dark power ...The trail of the Storm-Opals takes Mouse further than she has ever been before. With her little brother Sparrow and friend Crow alongside her, she stumbles into the world of Sky, where fortresses are hidden amongst the clouds, secret libraries (skybraries) nestle atop gigantic icebergs and the sky swirls with warring tribes and their ferocious flying beasts. Can they solve Da's message before it's too late for their ship, their tribe and the whole of Trianukka? Sky-soaring, beast-chattering, dream-dancing, draggle-riding, terrodyl-flying, world-saving adventure. LSC- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Sea stories.; Brothers and sisters; Women ship captains; Ships; Magic;
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- The forbidden kingdom [videorecording] / by Angarano, Michael,actor.; Cheng, Long,1954-actor.; Chou, Collin,1967-actor.; DeLaurentiis, Raffaella,film producer.; Feltheimer, Jon,1951-film producer.; Fusco, John,screenwriter.; Kavanaugh, Ryan,film producer.; Li, Bingbing,1976-actor.; Li, Jet,1963-actor.; Liu, Yifei,1987-actor.; Minkoff, Rob,film director.; Pau, Peter,1952-director of photography,film director.; Silver, Casey,film producer.; Wang, Zhongjun,1960-film producer.; Casey Silver Productions (Firm),production company.; Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.),film distributor.; Relativity Media,production company.; Weinstein Company,production company.;
Music by David Buckley ; score produced by Harry Gregson-Williams ; music supervisor, Adam Smalley ; costumes by Shirley Chan ; senior visual effects supervisor, Ron Simonson ; editor, Eric Strand ; production designer, Bill Brzeski ; action choreographer, Woo-Ping Yuen ; associate producers, Philip Lee, Mathew Tang ; line producer, Hester Hargett-Aupetit.Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Collin Chou, Liu Yifei, Li Bing Bing, Michael Angarano.Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful Silent Monk; and the vengeance-bent Golden Sparrow. Jason is lead on a quest to return the staff to its rightful owner, the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned in stone by the evil Jade Warlord for five hundred years. Along the way, while attempting to outmaneuver scores of killers, Jason learns about honor, loyalty and friendship and the true meaning of kungfu.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for sequences of martial arts action and some violence.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1) and wide screen (2.35:1) presentations; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Martial arts films.; Friendship; Kung fu; Quests (Expeditions); Weapons, Ancient;
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- The rebel and the rake / by Sullivan, Emily,author.;
Rafe Davies might seem like just another charismatic rake, but in reality, he is one of the crown's most valuable agents. As relentless as he is reckless, Rafe has never come upon a mission he couldn't complete. But when he encounters the intriguing-yet-prickly lady's companion Miss Sylvia Sparrow while on assignment at a Scottish house party, he finds himself thoroughly distracted by the secretive beauty. Though most women would be thrilled to catch the eye of a tall, dark, and dangerously handsome man, Sylvia is through with that sort of adventure. She trusted the wrong man once and paid for it dearly. The fiery bluestocking is resolved to avoid Rafe, until a chance encounter between them reveals the normally irreverent man's unexpected depths--and an attraction that's impossible to ignore. But when Sylvia begins to suspect she isn't the only one harboring a few secrets, she realizes that Rafe may pose a risk to far more than her heart.- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Intelligence officers; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy;
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- The Collaborators [electronic resource] : by Idov, Michael.aut; cloudLibrary;
Slow Horses meets Red Sparrow in this “sharp, freshly conceived, [and] thoroughly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) spy thriller featuring a brilliant young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress who stumble into a global conspiracy that pits present-day Russia against the CIA. Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path? Crisscrossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset; and brash, troubled LA heiress Maya Chou, spiraling after the disappearance of her Russian American billionaire father. The duo’s adventures take us to both classic and surprising locales—from Berlin, to Latvia, Belarus, and an abandoned technopark outside Moscow. Dynamic, fast-paced, and filled with captivating details that provide a window into a secretive world, The Collaborators is a first-rate thriller “with a propulsive plot and fantastic twists” (Chris Pavone, author of The Expats) that pays homage to both meanings of “intelligence.”- Subjects: Electronic books.; Espionage; Political; Suspense;
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- Corner Gas [videorecording] : the movie / by Butt, Brent.; Cardinal, Lorne.; Ewaniuck, Fred.; Miller, Gabrielle.; Peterson, Eric,1946-; Robertson, Nancy.; Spencer-Nairn, Tara.; Thompson, Virginia.; Wright, Janet.; Prairie Pants Productions.; Video Service Corp.;
Brent Butt, Gabrielle Miller, Fred Ewanuick, Eric Peterson, Janet Wright, Lorne Cardinal, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Nancy Robertson.It's been a few years, and there's still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that's all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town's been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog reveries forever.PG.DVD ; Dolby digital ; widescreen presentation.- Subjects: Automobile service stations; Comedy films.; Diners (Restaurants); Feature films.; Gasoline stations; Small cities; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Waiters and waitresses;
- © c2014., Distributed by Video Service Corp.,
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- Pests : how humans create animal villains / by Brookshire, Bethany,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-330) and index."A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It's not a natural history of the animals we hate. Instead, this book is about us. It's about what calling an animal a pest says about people, how we live, and what we want. It's a story about human nature, and how we categorize the animals in our midst, including bears and coyotes, sparrows and snakes. Pet or pest? In many cases, it's entirely a question of perspective. Bethany Brookshire's deeply researched and entirely entertaining book will show readers what there is to venerate in vermin, and help them appreciate how these animals have clawed their way to success as we did everything we could to ensure their failure. In the process, we will learn how the pests that annoy us tell us far more about humanity than they do about the animals themselves."--Publisher marketing.- Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Human-animal relationships.; Pests.;
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