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Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine / by Applebaum, Anne,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization -- in effect a second Russian revolution -- which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people perished between 1931 and 1933 in the U.S.S.R. In Red famine, Anne Applebaum reveals for the first time that three million of them died not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy, but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: that Stalin set out to exterminate a vast swath of the Ukrainian population and replace them with more cooperative, Russian-speaking peasants. A peaceful Ukraine would provide the Soviets with a safe buffer between itself and Europe, and would be a bread basket region to feed Soviet cities and factory workers. When the province rebelled against collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures. Starving, people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil"--
Subjects: Collective farms; Collectivization of agriculture; Famines; Genocide; Mass murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Farm, fire & feast : recipes from the Inn at Bay Fortune / by Smith, Michael,1966 October 13-author.;
The Inn at Bay Fortune on Prince Edward Island is a leading five-star country inn with the award-winning restaurant FireWorks offering a unique live-fire culinary experience. 'Farm, Fire & Feast' by celebrity chef Michael Smith is a collection of recipes from this award-winning restaurant, packed with recipes to cook over fire or in an indoor kitchen. Smith lives in Souris, PE.
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Cooking, Canadian; Cooking;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Animal farm : a fairy story / by Orwell, George,1903-1950,author.;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.A satire against totalitarianism and the corrupting influence of power.
Subjects: Allegories.; Fables.; Political fiction.; Satirical literature.; Banned book sanctuary.; Classics; Literary; Domestic animals; Totalitarianism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Rebel mother : my childhood chasing the revolution / by Andreas, Peter,author.;
"The adventure tale and intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, a housewife turned radical who kidnapped her son and set off for South America in search of the revolution. Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went, even kidnapping him and running off to South America after his straitlaced father won a long and bitter custody fight. They were chasing the revolution together, though the more they chased it the more distant it became. They battled the bad "isms" (sexism, imperialism, capitalism, fascism, consumerism), and fought for the good "isms" (feminism, socialism, communism, egalitarianism). They were constantly running, moving, hiding. Between the ages of five and eleven, Peter attended more than a dozen schools and lived in more than a dozen homes, moving from the comfortably bland suburbs of Detroit to a hippie commune in Berkeley to a socialist collective farm in pre-military coup Chile to highland villages and coastal shantytowns in Peru. When they secretly returned to America they settled down clandestinely in Denver, where his mother changed her name to hide from his father. This is an extraordinary account of a deep mother-son bond and the joy and toll of growing up with a radical mother in a radical age. Andreas is an insightful and candid narrator whose unforgettable memoir gives new meaning to the old saying, "the personal is political.""--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Andreas, Peter, 1965-; Andreas, Carol.; Andreas, Peter, 1965-; Americans; Americans; College teachers; Feminists; Mothers and sons; Radicalism; Women political activists; Women revolutionaries;
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In winter I get up at night / by Urquhart, Jane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart's brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm--the "great wind" that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children's ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer's tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother's entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother's dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp--a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century--colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Country life; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Recollection (Psychology); Women teachers; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Sweet home cowboy / by Yates, Maisey.; Helm, Nicole.; Ashenden, Jackie.; Crews, Caitlin.; Helm, Nicole.Teddy.; Yates, Maisey.Joey.; Ashenden, Jackie.Georgie.; Crews, Caitlin.Elliot.;
Teddy / Nicole Helm -- Joey / Maisey Yates -- Georgie / Jackie Ashenden -- Elliot / Caitlin Crews.Four authors come together in a quartet of stories that follows four half-sisters who reunite to revitalize their grandfather's farm and fall for their neighborhood cowboys, creating the family they've always dreamed of.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novellas.; Sisters; Cowboys; Farm life; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In Winter I Get Up at Night A Novel [electronic resource] : by Urquhart, Jane.aut; cloudLibrary;
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTELLER • Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books • One of the CBC’s Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024 From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable life. In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart’s brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm—the “great wind” that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children’s ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer’s tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother’s entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother’s dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp—a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century—colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Family Life; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., McClelland & Stewart,
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James Herriot's treasury for children [sound recording (CD)] : [warm and joyful animal tales]. by Herriot, James.;
Read by Jim Dale.A collection of the author's stories for children.Grades K-3.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Domestic animals; Farm life; Pets;
© p2008., Macmillan Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / by Alexie, Sherman,1966-; Forney, Ellenill.;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Subjects: Banned book sanctuary.; First Nations.; Spokane Indians; Indians of North America; Indian reservations; Diary fiction.;
© 2009, c2007., Little, Brown,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Scott and Bailey. [videorecording] / by Bullmore, Amelia,1964-; Sharp, Lesley,1964-; Jones, Suranne,1979-; British Broadcasting Corporation.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; BBC Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Bonus feature: behind the scenes.Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Amelia Bullmore, Nicholas Gleaves, Ben Batt, David Prosho, Tony Mooney, Delroy Brown, Tony Pitts, Sean Maguire.The personal and professional lives of well-matched Detective Constables Janet Scott and Rachel Bailey take a new direction when the two friends become rivals for promotion to Detective Sergeant. But crime in metropolitan Manchester takes no break during their competition. Join Scott and Bailey as they collect clues in cases of long-missing persons turned corpses in a quarry and on the moors ... the murders of a gay man, prostitute, young baby and pub landlord ... and slavery on a local farm. Janet finds solace in the arms of her new boyfriend, while DCI Gill Murray finds it in booze and gets caught.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Women detectives; Police; Murder; Criminal investigation; Female friendship;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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