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- The best laid plans : a novel / by Fallis, Terry.;
- LSCStephen Leacock Award for Humour
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Political fiction.; Speechwriters; College teachers; Political campaigns; Male friendship;
- © c2007., McClelland & Stewart,
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- Long shot [videorecording] / by Hannah, Liz,1985-screenwriter.; Jackson, O'Shea,Jr.,1991-actor.; Levine, Jonathan,1976-film director.; Odenkirk, Bob,1962-actor.; Park, Randall,actor.; Patel, Ravi,1978-actor.; Raphael, June Diane,actor.; Rogen, Seth,1982-actor.; Serkis, Andy,actor.; Skarsgård, Alexander,actor.; Sterling, Dan,screenwriter.; Theron, Charlize,film producer,actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),film distributor.;
- Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ravi Patel, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Serkis, Randall Park, Alexander Skarsgård.Unemployed journalist Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) gets a new gig when he's hired as a speechwriter for Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), U.S. Secretary of State, presidential candidate ... and Fred's onetime babysitter and unrequited crush. Despite their vast differences, they begin to hit it off and start dating. But will the less-than-sophisticated Fred prove to be too big a liability to Charlotte's campaign?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for strong sexual content, language throughout and some drug use.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Romantic comedy films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Journalists; Man-woman relationships; Women presidential candidates; First loves; Women politicians; Speechwriters;
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- Long shot [videorecording] / by Hannah, Liz,1985-screenwriter.; Jackson, O'Shea,Jr.,1991-actor.; Levine, Jonathan,1976-film director.; Odenkirk, Bob,1962-actor.; Park, Randall,actor.; Patel, Ravi,1978-actor.; Raphael, June Diane,actor.; Rogen, Seth,1982-actor.; Serkis, Andy,actor.; Skarsgård, Alexander,actor.; Sterling, Dan,screenwriter.; Theron, Charlize,film producer,actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),film distributor.;
- Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ravi Patel, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Serkis, Randall Park, Alexander Skarsgård.Unemployed journalist Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) gets a new gig when he's hired as a speechwriter for Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), U.S. Secretary of State, presidential candidate ... and Fred's onetime babysitter and unrequited crush. Despite their vast differences, they begin to hit it off and start dating. But will the less-than-sophisticated Fred prove to be too big a liability to Charlotte's campaign?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for strong sexual content, language throughout and some drug use.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos ; Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Journalists; Man-woman relationships; Women presidential candidates; First loves; Women politicians; Speechwriters;
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- Grace : President Obama and ten days in the battle for America / by Keenan, Cody,author.;
- The former chief speechwriter for President Obama provides an account of ten days in his presidency in June 2015 in the shadow of a racist massacre in Charleston and two impending Supreme Court decisions.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Keenan, Cody.; Obama, Barack; Obama, Barack; Obama, Barack.; Presidents; Speechwriters;
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- An unfinished love story : a personal history of the 1960s / by Goodwin, Doris Kearns,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-449) and index."Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir ... The Goodwins' last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Goodwin, Doris Kearns.; Goodwin, Richard N.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.; Nineteen sixties.; Speechwriters;
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- The blueprint : a novel / by Rashad, Rae Giana,author.;
- "Solenne Bonet is DoS--a Descendant of Slave--and has always known that her destiny would be in the service of men. At school, it is what she has been trained for, waiting for an algorithm to assign her to a white man, one of the thousands who sign up to be contract holders. She knows that there are girls who hope to be more than Maid or Mammy, who whisper about how they will get a white man to sign their freedom, how they will be sweet, but not sweet enough that he would be tempted to keep her for good. After her mother pulls strings to get Solenne an assignment as a Council archivist, Solenne attracts the attention of Bastien LeBlanc, a high-ranking white government official and rising star in the Order. He promises to make Solenne his wife, and more importantly, to grant her freedom. She is flattered by his attention and entranced by Bastien's world of power and influence--even if it means ignoring Bastien's beliefs about the need to keep her fellow DoS under strict legislation. She convinces herself that his love is enough, that he will grant her freedom. Five years later, nothing has changed. Solenne is still with Bastien--his lover, his speechwriter, his possession. When he denies her the freedom he promised, she must decide whether to stay or run"--
- Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; African American women; Concubinage; Slavery;
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- Noonday dark / by Demers, Charles,1980-author.;
- "An exciting second installment in the Doctor Annick Boudreau Mystery Series, the endearing and unflappable Dr. Boudreau returns in this complex and nuanced portrait of psychology and a city. When Dr. Boudreau is contacted by the Vancouver Police and informed that her patient Danielle has been reported missing and there's a suicide note, Dr. Boudreau is shaken. Danielle, who was being treated for a major depressive episode, had been doing well--talking about her new relationship and the contract she just completed as a speechwriter for a bike-riding politician's successful mayoral campaign. Dr. Boudreau is, once again, on a mission to discover what really happened and joins forces with Danielle's estranged father Ivor, a former radical journalist turned right-wing blogger. Along the way, the realpolitik is illuminated in a clash over the Knight Street trucking route, protected by the Satan's Hammer Motorcycle Club, who have a strong presence on the waterfront and refuse to relinquish the port traffic to the suburbs. Discover the clash and charisma of a city embroiled in politics in this twisting and turning story. Charles Demers renders a divisive cityscape entangled in questions of ownership and change--who owns the city and who has the right to change it--with humour, edge and compassion, revealing the intricacies of a metropolis on the verge of myriad transformations."-- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Missing persons; Women psychologists;
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- Streampunks : YouTube and the rebels remaking media / by Kyncl, Robert,author.; Peyvan, Maany,author.;
- "An entertainment and tech insider--YouTube's chief business officer--delivers the first detailed account of the rise of YouTube, the creative minds who have capitalized on it to become pop culture stars, and how streaming video is revolutionizing the media world. In the past ten years, the internet video platform YouTube has changed media and entertainment as profoundly as the invention of film, radio, and television did, more than six decades earlier. Streampunks is a firsthand account of this upstart company, examining how it evolved and where it will take us next. Sharing behind-the-scenes stories of YouTube's most influential stars--Streampunks like Tyler Oakley, Lilly Singh, and Casey Neistat--and the dealmakers brokering the future of entertainment like Scooter Braun and Shane Smith, Robert Kyncl uses his experiences at three of the most innovative media companies, HBO, Netflix, and YouTube, to tell the story of streaming video and this modern pop culture juggernaut. Collaborating with Google speechwriter Maany Peyvan, Kyncl explains how the new rules of entertainment are being written and how and why the media landscape is radically changing, while giving aspiring Streampunks some necessary advice to launch their own new media careers. Kyncl persuasively argues that, despite concerns about technology impoverishing artists or undermining artistic quality, the new media revolution is actually fueling a creative boom and leading to more compelling, diverse, and immersive content. Enlightening, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining, Streampunks is a revelatory ride through the new media rebellion that is reshaping our world"--
- Subjects: YouTube (Electronic resource); Digital media; Internet entertainment.; Internet videos; Mass media.; Streaming technology (Telecommunications); Webcasting.;
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- The world as it is : a memoir of the Obama White House / by Rhodes, Benjamin J.,1977-author.;
- For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the center of the Obama administration--first as a speechwriter, then as deputy national security advisor, and finally as a multipurpose aide and close collaborator. He started every morning in the Oval Office with the President's Daily Brief, traveled the world with Obama, and was at the center of some of the most consequential and controversial moments of the presidency. Now he tells the full story of his partnership--and, ultimately, friendship--with a man who also happened to be a historic president of the United States. Rhodes was not your typical presidential confidant, and this is not your typical White House memoir. Rendered in vivid, novelistic detail by someone who was a writer before he was a staffer, this is a rare look inside the most poignant, tense, and consequential moments of the Obama presidency--waiting out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room, responding to the Arab Spring, reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran, leading secret negotiations with the Cuban government to normalize relations, and confronting the resurgence of nationalism and nativism that culminated in the election of Donald Trump. In The World as It Is, Rhodes shows what it was like to be there--from the early days of the Obama campaign to the final hours of the presidency. It is a story populated by such characters as Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates, and--above all--Barack Obama, who comes to life on the page in moments of great urgency and disarming intimacy. This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama's worldview and presidency, a chronicle of a political education by a writer of enormous talent, and an essential record of the forces that shaped the last decade.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Obama, Barack.; Rhodes, Benjamin J., 1977-; Presidents;
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- Raising hare : the heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship / by Dalton, Chloe,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare. Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end and gave birth to leverets in your study. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality. In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare--a leveret--that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how impossible it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton's house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, stoats, feral cats, raptors, and even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death. Raising Hare chronicles their journey together, while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness first-hand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Anecdotes.; Dalton, Chloe; European hare; European hare; European hare; Human-animal relationships;
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