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- The Princess in Black and the giant problem / by Hale, Shannon.; Hale, Dean,1972-; Pham, LeUyen.;
The Princess in Black heads off to her snowy playdate with the Goat Avenger and the Princess in Blankets. They build snow monsters and battle them for practice. But just when they're about to wage battle, a huge foot smashes their snow monster. "SQUASHY!" It's a giant, and it's smashing everything in its path! The giant is too strong for the three friends, so the Princess in Blankets decides it's time to light the Sparkle Signal to summon help.LSC
- Subjects: Princess Magnolia; Princesses; Women superheroes; Giants; Snow; Friendship;
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- Frozen river [videorecording (DVD)] / by Hourihan, Chip.; Hunt, Courtney.; Leo, Melissa.; O'Keefe, Michael,1955-; Rae, Heather,1966-; Upham, Misty,1982-; Cohen Media Group (Firm); Frozen River Pictures (Firm); Harwood Hunt Productions (Firm); Off Hollywood Pictures (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Reed Morano ; editor, Kate Williams ; music, Peter Golub, Shahzad Ismaily.Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Michael O'Keefe.Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman and Lila, a Mohawk are both single mothers, both earning minimum wage and facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. New York State Trooper Finnerty ultimately brings the two to justice.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; anamorphic widescreen.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Mohawk women; Police, State; Single mothers; Smuggling; Smuggling; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2009., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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- Catherine the Great [videorecording] / by Clarke, Jason,1969-actor.; Kinnear, Rory,1978-actor.; McKee, Gina,1964-actor.; Mcnally, Kevin,actor.; Mirren, Helen,actor.; Quinn, Joseph(Actor),actor.; Roxburgh, Richard,actor.; Russell, Clive,1945-actor.; HBO Entertainment (Firm),production company.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Costume designer, Maja Meschede ; composer, Rupert Gregson-Williams ; editor, Stuart Gazzard (episode 1, 3), Selina Macarthur (episodes 2, 4) ; production, Tom Burton ; director of photography, Stuart Howell.Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Gina Mckee, Kevin Mcnally, Joseph Quinn, Clive Russell, Richard Roxburgh, Rory Kinnear.Helen Mirren stars as Catherine the Great, as the brilliant monarch who ruled the Russian empire and transformed its place in the world in the eighteenth century. This limited series charts Catherine's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea. It also chronicles the passionate love affair between Catherine and Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Television mini-series.; Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796; Potemkin, Grigoriĭ Aleksandrovich, kni͡azʹ, 1739-1791; Man-woman relationships;
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- Poverty, by America / by Desmond, Matthew,author.;
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom"--
- Subjects: Poor; Poverty; Poverty;
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- Judas and the Black Messiah [videorecording] / by Kaluuya, Daniel,1989-actor.; Stanfield, LaKeith,1991-actor.; King, Shaka,film director,screenwriter.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Sheen, Martin,actor.; Fishback, Dominique,1991-actor.; Sanders, Ashton,1995-actor.; Hill, Terayle,actor.; Howery, LilRel,actor.; Smith, Algee,1994-actor.; Fowler, Jermaine,actor.; Fink, Nick,actor.; Britt-Gibson, Darrell,actor.; Longstreet, Robert,actor.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Martin Sheen, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Terayle Hill, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Jermaine Fowler, Nick Fink, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Robert Longstreet.FBI informant William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton. A career thief, O'Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrades and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell. Hampton's political prowess grows just as he's falling in love with fellow revolutionary Deborah Johnson. Meanwhile, a battle wages for O'Neal's soul. Will he align with the forces of good? Or subdue Hampton and The Panthers by any means, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover commands?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Political films.; Feature films.; Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Black Panther Party; Informers; Race relations; Undercover operations;
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- Pitchfork Pass / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Flintlock takes no pleasure in killing. But when his pal O'Hara gets bullwhipped by a trio of lowdown prairie rats, Flintlock finds sanctuary for his wounded friend at the cabin of a kindly miner and his lovely daughter. Flintlock heads out to hunt down some food. But there's more than just deer lurking in these woods. A bloodthirsty band of eight savage raiders--led by a half-mad gunslinger called The Old Man of the Mountain--wage a full-scale attack on the miner's cabin. By the time Flintlock returns, O'Hara's been beaten, the miner's been shot, and the daughter's been kidnapped . . .
- Subjects: Western fiction.; Bounty hunters;
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- Cake & Loaf gatherings : sweet and savoury recipes to celebrate every occasion / by Miller, Nickey,author.; Rudderham, Josie,author.;
"Cake & Loaf, a cozy from-scratch neighbourhood bakery, started with a dream shared over coffee between college friends and business partners, Nickey Miller and Josie Rudderham. Genuinely passionate about food, sustainability, and community, they wanted to create a bakery with a dynamic atmosphere that fosters creativity and equality. Today, a living-wage employer, Cake & Loaf is beloved for its stand-out baked goods. Cake & Loaf Gatherings is the follow-up baking book to Miller and Rudderham's first book Cake & Loaf, this time focusing on baked goods for love-filled get-togethers with family and friends."--
- Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Baked products.; Baking.; Entertaining.;
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- Sunbelt blues : the failure of American housing / by Ross, Andrew,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 28 out of 3,140 counties in America. The single worst place in the United States to look for affordable housing is Osceola County, Florida. Once the main approach to Disney World, where vacationers found lodging on their way to the Magic Kingdom, the fifteen-mile Route 192 corridor in Osceola has become a site of shocking contrasts. At one end, absentee investors snatch up foreclosed properties to turn into extravagant vacation homes for affluent visitors, destroying affordable housing in the process. At the other, underpaid theme park workers, displaced families, and disabled and elderly people subsisting on government checks are technically homeless, living crammed into dilapidated, roach-infested motels or even in tent camps in the woods. Through visceral, frontline reporting from the motels and encampments dotting central Florida, renowned sociologist Andrew Ross exposes the overlooked housing crisis sweeping America's suburbs and rural areas, where residents suffer ongoing trauma, poverty, and nihilism. As millions of renters face down evictions and foreclosures in the midst of the COVID-19 recession, Andrew Ross reveals how ineffective government planning, property market speculation, and poverty wages have combined to create this catastrophe. Immersive and compassionate, Sunbelt Blues finds in Osceola County a bellwether for the future of homelessness in America"--
- Subjects: Housing policy; Housing; Low-income housing; Real estate investment; Working poor;
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- Empire / by Iggulden, Conn,author.;
Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light. But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athens's legendary rival - looms large on the horizon. When a sudden catastrophe brings Sparta to its knees, Pericles sees a golden opportunity to forever shift the balance of power in his city's favor. For sometimes, the only way to win lasting peace is to wage war. Sparta may be weak, but their power is far from extinguished. Soon a ruthless young boy steps forward to lead the Spartans back to greatness. As the drums of battle draw closer, can Pericles rise to victory once more - or will the world's greatest empire fall under his watch?
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.; Imperialism; Statesmen;
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- The orphan's letters / by Peters, Glynis,author.;
As the Second World War wages on, nurse Kitty Pattison's life takes a nomadic turn as her work with the Red Cross sees her traversing the country, moving from post to post. With her best friends Jo and Trixie also scattered across the UK, and her soldier sweetheart Michael off on the continent undertaking medical missions he can't discuss, the war takes its toll and long days are followed by sleepless nights interrupted only by nightmares of what she's seen on the wards. Now, Kitty's hopes rise and fall with the arrival of the post - the only thing that keeps her connected to her aunt and uncle, her dear friends, and her Michael - and every moment spent with those she loves is held dear, because each one could be the last.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Letters; Man-woman relationships; Nurses; Orphans; Red Cross and Red Crescent; World War, 1939-1945;
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