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To kill a troubadour / by Walker, Martin,1947 January 23-author.;

"Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, 'Song for Catalonia,' when the Spanish government suddenly bans the song. The songwriter, Joel Martin, is a local enthusiast for the old Occitan language of Périgord and the medieval troubadours, and he sympathizes with the Catalan bid for independence. The success of his song provokes outrage among extreme Spanish nationalists. Then, in a stolen car found on a Périgord back road, police discover a distinctive bullet for a state-of-the-art sniper's rifle that can kill at three kilometers, and they fear that Joel might be the intended target. The French and Spanish governments agree to mount a joint operation to stop the assailants, and Bruno is the local man on the spot who mobilizes his resources to track them down. While Bruno tries to keep the peace, his friend Florence reaches out for help. Her abusive ex-husband is about to be paroled from prison and she fears he will return to reclaim their children. Will Bruno and Florence be able to prevent this unwanted visit? Despite the pressures, there is always time for Bruno to savor les plaisirs of the Dordogne around the table with friends."--

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Courrèges, Bruno (Fictitious character); Abusive men; Attempted assassination; Composers; Criminal investigation; Folk music groups; Nationalism; Police chiefs; Police; Political ballads and songs;

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Acts of vengeance [videorecording] / by Banderas, Antonio,actor.; Blankenship, Lillian,actor.; Clickner, Stacey,actor.; Davidson, Boaz,1943-film producer.; Dyer, Clint,1968-actor.; Florentine, Isaac,film director.; Forster, Robert,1942-actor.; Lerner, Yariv,film producer.; Schaech, Johnathan,1969-actor.; Serafini, Cristina,actor.; Smith, Mark Rhino,actor.; Srebrev, Atanas,actor.; Thompson, John(Film producer),film producer.; Urban, Karl,1972-actor.; Vasilev, Raycho,actor.; Vega, Paz,1976-actor.; Venne, Matt,1974-screenwriter.; Weldon, Les,film producer.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Millennium Media,presenter,production company.; Saban Films,presenter.; Videoville Showtime.;

Director of photography, Yaron Scharf ; editors, Paul Harb, Ivan Todorov, Irit Raz-McBride ; music, Frederick Wiedmann.Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega, Clint Dyer, Cristina Serafini, Lillian Blankenship, Atanas Srebrev, Mark Rhino Smith, Raycho Vasilev, Stacey Clickner, Robert Forster, Johnathon Schaech.A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence and language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Bereavement; Families; Revenge;

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The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / by Payne, Les,1941-author.; Payne, Tamara,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting Malcolm's life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century's most politically relevant figures "from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary." In tracing Malcolm X's life from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm's Depression-era youth, describing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride in her children after Earl's death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows Malcolm's exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary. With a biographer's unwavering determination, Payne corrects the historical record and delivers extraordinary revelations-from the unmasking of the mysterious NOI founder "Fard Muhammad," who preceded Elijah Muhammad; to a hair-rising scene, conveyed in cinematic detail, of Malcolm and Minister Jeremiah X Shabazz's 1961 clandestine meeting with the KKK; to a minute-by-minute account of Malcolm X's murder at the Audubon Ballroom. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle"--

Subjects: Biographies.; X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.; African American civil rights workers; African American Muslims; African Americans; Black Muslims; Black nationalism;

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The hitman's wife's bodyguard [videorecording] / by Hughes, Patrick,1978-film director.; O'Connor, Tom(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Murphy, Phillip,screenwriter.; Murphy, Brandon,screenwriter.; O'Toole, Matt(Matthew James),film producer.; Weldon, Les,film producer.; Lerner, Yariv,film producer.; Reynolds, Ryan,actor.; Jackson, Samuel L.,actor.; Hayek, Salma,1966-actor.; Freeman, Morgan,actor.; Grillo, Frank,1963-actor.; Banderas, Antonio,actor.; Stacey, Terry,director of photography.; Hutchings, Jack,editor of moving image work.; Duthie, Michael J.,editor of moving image work.; Atli Örvarsson,composer (expression); Millennium Media,presenter,production company.; Nu Boyana Film Studios,production company.; Campbell Grobman Films,production company.; Videoville Showtime,publisher,film distributor.;

Director of photography, Terry Stacey ; edited by Jack Hutchings, Michael Duthie ; music by Atli Örvarsson.Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Frank Grillo, Tom Hopper, Richard E. Grant, Caroline Goodall, Gabriella Wright, Giulio Berruti, Blake Ritson.The bodyguard Michael Bryce continues his friendship with assassin Darius Kincaid as they try to save Darius's wife Sonia.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language, and some sexual content.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Assassins; Bodyguards; Spouses; Swindlers and swindling;

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The man who invented Christmas [videorecording] / by Coyne, Susan,screenwriter.; Fichman, Niv,film producer.; Jean, Vadim,1963-film producer.; Nalluri, Bharat,film director.; Plummer, Christopher,actor.; Pryce, Jonathan,actor.; Stevens, Dan,1982-actor.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;

Music by Mychael Danna ; editors, Stephen O'Connell, Jamie Pearson; cinematography by Ben Smithard.Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce.In 1843, the celebrated British novelist, Charles Dickens, is at a low point in his career with three flops behind him and his family expenses piling up at home. Determined to recover, Dickens decides to write a Christmas story and self-publish it in less than two months. As Dickens labors writing on such short notice, his estranged father and mother come to bunk with him. Still haunted by painful memories of his father ruining his childhood by his financial irresponsibly, Dickens develops a writer's block which seems to have no solution. As such, Dickens must face his personal demons epitomized through his characters, especially in his imagined conversations with Ebenezer Scrooge. Now with a looming deadline, Dickens struggles for inspiration against his frustrations and his characters' opinions in a literary challenge creating a classic tale that would define the essential soul of modern Christmas.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some mild language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Biographical films.; Christmas films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Christmas;

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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz : a story of survival / by Sebba, Anne,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Moving and powerful, this is a vivid portrait of the women who came together to form an orchestra in order to survive the horrors of Auschwitz. New York Times bestselling author of Les Parisiennes and That Woman: A Life of Wallis Simpson now examines how a disparate band of young girls struggled to overcome differences and little musical knowledge to please the often-sadistic Nazi overseers. In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a band that would play in all weathers marching music to other inmates, forced laborers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day. While still living amid the harshest of circumstances, with little more than a bowl of soup to eat, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances. For almost all of the musicians chosen to take part, being in the orchestra saved their lives. But at what cost? What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends? In The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care. From Alma Rose, the orchestra's main conductor, niece of Gustav Mahler and a formidable pre-war celebrity violinist, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, its teenage cellist and last surviving member, Sebba draws on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members, and the response of other prisoners for the first time"--

Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz.; Internment camp inmates as musicians.; Women Nazi concentration camp inmates.;

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Unscripted : the epic battle for a media empire and the Redstone family legacy / by Stewart, James B.,author.; Abrams, Rachel(Journalist),author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global--the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire that includes Paramount, CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster--hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer--a lawsuit that placed Sumner's deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light. As one of the last in a long line of all-powerful media moguls, Sumner had been a relentlessly demanding boss, and an even more demanding father. When his daughter, Shari, took control of her father's business, she faced the hostility of boards and management who for years had heard Sumner disparage her. Les Moonves, the popular CEO of CBS, felt particularly threatened and schemed with his allies on the board to strip Shari of power. But while he publicly battled Shari, news began to leak that Moonves had been involved in multiple instances of sexual misconduct, and he began working behind the scenes to try to make the stories disappear. Unscripted is an explosive and unvarnished look at the usually secret inner workings of two public companies, their boards of directors, and a wealthy, dysfunctional family in the throes of seismic changes, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams. Through the microcosm of Paramount, whose once victorious business model of cable fees and ticket sales is crumbling under the assault of technological advances, and whose workplace is undergoing radical change in the wake of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and a distaste for the old guard, Stewart and Abrams lay bare the battle for power at any price--and the carnage that ensued."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Moonves, Leslie.; Redstone, Shari.; Redstone, Sumner.; CBS Corp.; Viacom Inc.; Corporations; Executives; Mass media;

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Manitoba / by Yazdani, Sheila.; Savard, Claire,1954-;

Subjects: French language materials.;

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Québec / by Yazdani, Sheila.; Savard, Claire,1954-;

Subjects: French language materials.;

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Midnight sun / by Meyer, Stephenie,1973-; Rigoureau, Luc.;

Midnight Sun est le roman tant attendu par les fans de la saga Twilight, où Edward Cullen raconte de son point de vue l'histoire relatée dans Fascination, le premier tome du cycle.La rencontre entre Edward Cullen et Bella Swan dans Fascination, le premier tome de la saga Twilight, a donné naissance à une histoire d'amour iconique. Mais jusqu'à présent, les fans n'avaient pu lire de cette histoire que la version de Bella. Ce conte inoubliable prend, à travers le regard d'Edward, un tour nouveau et résolument sombre. La rencontre de Bella constitue dans sa longue vie de vampire l'expérience la plus intrigante et la plus troublante qui soit. Plus nous apprenons de détails sur le passé d'Edward et la complexité de son monde intérieur, mieux nous comprenons que cet événement constitue le combat déterminant de son existence.LSC

Subjects: Roman paranormal sentimental.; Paranormal romance stories.; Cullen, Edward (Personnage fictif); Swan, Bella (Personnage fictif); Vampires; Écoles secondaires; Cullen, Edward (Fictitious character); Swan, Bella (Fictitious character); Vampires; High schools;

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