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Big and bad / by Delessert, Etienne;
In this variation on the classic tale of the three little pigs, two clever cats decide to rid their locale of a vicious wolf whose hunger threatens the entire planet, and enlist the help of assorted animals to build houses for the bait--three exquisitely pink pigs.
Subjects: Wolves; Animals; Avarice; Avarice;
© 2008., Houghton Mifflin,
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The smallest gift of Christmas / by Reynolds, Peter,1961-;
Roland can't wait for Christmas Day, and when the morning finally arrives he races downstairs to see what is waiting for him. What he sees stops him in his tracks. Could that tiny present really be what he had waited all year for? It has to be the smallest gift he had ever seen! So Roland wishes for something bigger . . . and bigger . . . and bigger.LSC
Subjects: Christmas stories.; Gifts; Avarice;
© 2013., Candlewick Press,
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Gold! / by Shannon, David,1959-;
Instead of making friends, seven-year-old Max Midas decides to make millions and spend it on what he loves best, gold, but one day things get lonely inside his shiny castle and Max finally learns that gold is not worth anything without friends and family by your side.Age range: 3-7.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Avarice; Gold; Friendship;
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The golden goose / by Grimm, Jacob,1785-1863.; Grimm, Wilhelm,1786-1859.; Reid, Barbara,1957-;
In this modern retelling of the classic fairy tale, Rupert is rewarded with a golden goose when he does a good deed for a mysterious old man."Grade level 1-3, guided reading level N, Lexile level 490L, word count 931"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Geese; Avarice; Fairy tales;
© c2014., Scholastic Canada,
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À la recherche d'un trésor / by Meyer, Pat.; Lewis, Naomi C.;
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Subjects: Avarice; Montagnes; Contes.; Avarice; Mountains; Tales.;
© c2004., Groupe Beauchemin,
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The big jar of butter / by Grimm, Jacob,1785-1863.; Grimm, Wilhelm,1786-1859.; Nelley, Elsie.; Spiby, Ben.;
In this retelling of a tale from the Brothers Grimm, a cat and a mouse hide a big jar of butter so they will have food for the winter, but the cat secretly visits the hiding place and eats it all.LSC
Subjects: Mice; Cats; Avarice; Tales;
© c2011., Nelson Education,
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Mégantic : a deadly mix of oil, rail, and avarice / by Saint-Cerny, Anne-Marie,1954-author.; translation of:Saint-Cerny, Anne-Marie,1954-Mégantic.English.; Wilson, W. Donald,1938-translator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada--July 6, 2013. During a hot summer night, a driverless, out-of-control train, firing explosive crude-oil bombs, descends the slope that leads to the scenic town below, pulverizing the downtown area, charring forty-seven trapped victims. The devastation leaves the people dazed ... but is quickly the object of an intentional and tortuous cover-up. Who are the tragedy's real culprits? How did the accident lead to the brutal death of forty-seven people, the suicides of several others, and the devastation of a whole community? Who took control of the crime scene? Who carried out the reconstruction, and for whose good? In this fascinating piece of investigative journalism, written like a thriller, Saint-Cerny reveals the inner workings of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. She reveals how the tragedy, far from being just the "error of a faulty system," was knowingly caused by powerful people and institutions distant from the town itself. Iconic in more ways than one, Lac-Mégantic is a perfect capitalist tale. Conceived in the offices of Wall Street hedge funders, of Dakota black-gold cowboy magnates, of oil conglomerates, and set up by a political class entirely devoted to the interests of the rail industry, the disaster hit a population which, while still in shock, found itself at the mercy of local predators--the perfect illustration of Naomi Klein's shock doctrine. Despite everything, the transport of crude oil and dangerous products today has increased so much that it constitutes the rail industry's main source of profit. But the Government of Canada stubbornly refuses to shed light on the 2013 tragedy and identify its causes. The fruit of five years of work and interviews with nearly a hundred people from various backgrounds, including victims and their relatives, Mégantic: A Tragedy in Waiting, tells the story of the disaster in three acts--before, during, and after--in an investigation whose ultimate goal is to prevent the preventable."--
Subjects: Disaster victims; Lac-Mégantic Derailment, Lac-Mégantic, Québec, 2013.; Railroad accidents;
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Gold [videorecording] / by Biar, Thiik,actor.; Efron, Zac,actor.; Hayes, Anthony(Actor),actor,film director.; Ngot, Akuol,actor.; Porter, Susie,actor.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Zac Efron, Akuol Ngot, Thiik Biar, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter.A giant gold nugget becomes a deadly divide between two friends as they battle the harsh wilderness and their own greed.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Avarice; Best friends; Gold; Wilderness survival;
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Pocket listing [videorecording] / by Allyn, Conor,actor.; Clark, Jessica,actor.; Jurdi, James,actor.; Lowe, Rob,actor.; Reynolds, Burt,actor.; Momentum Pictures,film distributor.;
Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, Jessica Clark, James Jurdi.Set around the issue of the U.S. real-estate market and its various casualties, Frank Hunter (Rob Lowe) and his sultry wife Lana (Jessica Clark), hire disgraced Los Angeles property broker Jack Woodman (James Jurdi) to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa. Fired from a top broker firm by real-estate mogul Ron Glass (Burt Reynolds) and framed by his menacing, drug-addled son, Aaron (Logan Fahey), Woodman soon finds himself in a world of double crosses, mistaken identity and crooked deals, the type that are literally life or death.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R for language, drug use, sexuality/nudity and violence.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Avarice; Fathers and sons; Real property; Revenge;
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The Queen City Detective Agency : a novel / by Wright, Snowden,1981-author.;
Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, a Southern noir unravels the greed, corruption and racism at the heart of the American Dream.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Noir fiction.; Novels.; Avarice; Corruption; Racism; Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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