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Violeta [sound recording] : a novel / by Allende, Isabel,author.; Arizmendi, Yareli,narrator.; Riddle, Frances,translator.; translation of:Allende, Isabel.Violeta.English[sound recording].; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Yareli Arizmendi."This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Epidemics;
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Arrival : the story of CanLit / by Mount, Nick,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?"--
Subjects: Canadian literature;
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The ghosts of heaven / by Sedgwick, Marcus.;
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
Subjects: Short stories.; Space and time;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Murdoch mysteries. [videorecording] / by Bisson, Yannick,1969-; Craig, Tom,1962-; Jennings, Maureen.; Joy, Helene.; Acorn Media (Firm); Shaftesbury Films.;
Disc 1. Murdoch of the Klondike -- Back and to the left -- Evil eye of Egypt -- War on terror.Disc 2. Murdoch at the opera -- Who killed the electric carriage? -- Stroll on the wild side, part 1.Disc 3. Stroll on the wild side, part 2 -- Invention convention -- Staircase to heaven.Disc 4. Murdoch in toyland -- Murdoch night in Canada -- Twentieth century Murdoch.Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris.This award-winning mystery series centers on brilliant detective William Murdoch, a pioneer of crime-solving technologies in Victorian Toronto. Still reeling from a personal and professional crisis, Murdoch has taken up gold prospecting at the start of Season 5. Soon he's back in detective mode, helping a woman accused of murder; investigating an Egyptian curse; experimenting with time travel; and crossing paths with Jack London, Henry Ford, and his idol, Alexander Graham Bell.PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Constables; Crime scene searches; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Detectives; Fingerprints; Forensic sciences; Forensic scientists; Murder; Murdoch, William (Fictitious character); Women pathologists;
© c2012., Acorn Media,
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What happens in Vegas [videorecording (DVD)] / by Aguilar, Michael.; Corddry, Rob; Diaz, Cameron; Fox, Dana.; Kutcher, Ashton,1978-; Vaughan, Tom,1969-; 21 Laps Entertainment (Firm); Mosaic Media (Firm); Regency Enterprises; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox.;
Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Treat Williams, Dennis Farina.After two strangers get married in Las Vegas they win three million dollars, and when a court forces them to stay married for six months they try to cheat each other out of the money.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Comedy films; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© 2008., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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Farming for the long haul : resilience and the lost art of agricultural inventiveness / by Foley, Michael W.,1945-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Farms, Small; Farmers; Agriculture;
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Folks [videorecording] / by Ameche, Don; Ebersole, Christine.; Jackson, Anne,1926-; Kotcheff, Ted,1931-; Selleck, Tom,1945-; Anchor Bay Entertainment; Penta Pictures.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation;
Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole.Jon Aldrich, an all around nice guy, inadvertently becomes the target of an FBI sting.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Comedy films; Family; Feature films;
© c2006., Anchor Bay Entertainment,
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Echo : a novel / by Ryan, Pam Muñoz.; Mirtalipova, Dinara.;
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.LSC
Subjects: Harmonica; Music; Fate and fatalism; Families; Family life;
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Gracepoint [videorecording] / by Gunn, Anna,1968-; Tennant, David,1971-actor.; Shine America (Firm),production company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
David Tennant, Anna Gunn.When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boys family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the towns residents.PG.DVD, NTSC region 1, dual layer, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Murder; Murder; Police; Television mini-series.;
For private home use only.
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Abyss : the Cuban missile crisis 1962 / by Hastings, Max,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century--the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis--America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors"--
Subjects: Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.; Cold War.; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; International relations; Nuclear crisis control;
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