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Explorers who made it-- or died trying / by Wishinsky, Frieda.; Dickson, Bill.;
Short biographies of twelve explorers: Erik the Red and Lief Eriksson, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, James Cook, John Franklin and Roald Amundsen.LSC
Subjects: Explorers; Discoveries in geography;
© 2011., Scholastic Canada,

The rights of Indigenous peoples explained / by Okibe, Summer.; Pelumi, Franklin.; Wisdom, Felix.;
Hey Child, I am excited to simplify the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) for you. You are special and you deserve to know that the Indigenous People around you have rights. You should, at all times, respect and acknowledge their rights.
Subjects: United Nations. General Assembly.; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples (International law); Human rights;

The star [videorecording] / by Reckart, Timothy,film director.; Magee-Cook, Jennifer,film producer.; Kotkin, Carlos,screenwriter.; Yeun, Steven,voice actor.; Rodriguez, Gina,1984-voice actor.; Levi, Zachary,1980-voice actor.; Key, Keegan-Michael,1971-voice actor.; Affirm Films,presenter.; Sony Pictures Animation (Firm),presenter,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, John Paesano.Steven Yeun, Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Keegan-Michael Key, Kelly Clarkson, Anthony Anderson, Aidy Bryant, Ving Rhames, Gabriel Iglesias, Patricia Heaton, Kristen Chenoweth, Christopher Plummer, Tracy Morgan, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey.A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Christmas films.; Children's films.; Religious films.; Feature films.; Donkeys; Animals; Heroes; Holidays; Christmas;
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The mistress and the key / by Mezrich, Ben,1969-author.;
'The Mistress and the Key' is the second installment in Ben Mezrich's 'Hailey Gordon and Nick Patterson' thriller series. Benjamin Franklin's mysterious connection to Paul Revere and a cabal of powerful alchemists has been lost to history -- until now. Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex con Nick Patterson -- fresh off uncovering one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War alongside American history professor Adrian Jensen -- now find themselves in Philadelphia, immersed in the history of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. The Liberty Bell, Charles Willson Peale's Museum, and the Tomb of The Unknown Revolutionary Soldier are connected to Franklin in amazing ways. The more they discover, the more shocking the implications become. The long buried secrets Hailey and Nick are chasing have previously only been known by a select few, who would prefer to keep it that way. A woman known as The Heiress -- part of a mysterious organization called The Family -- is one of these rare historians. After generations of members have failed before her, The Heiress has been tasked to finally unearth the alchemical secrets Revere and Franklin may have discovered during their lifetimes. And she's not about to let Nick and Hailey get in her way.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Alchemists; Cardsharping; Conspiracy; Ex-convicts;

The cat sitter and the canary : a Dixie Hemingway mystery / by Clement, Blaize,author.; Clement, John,1962-author.;
"This time out, Dixie's got a furry partner-in-crime, an irascible Lhasa Apso named Charlie. They've just arrived at the home of one of Dixie's regular clients to check in on Franklin, a mackerel tabby with avocado-green eyes and a luxuriant coat the color of dried beach grass. Despite a couple of bumps in the road (Franklin seems to be hiding in one of his favorite cubby holes, and Charlie scratches up the parlor door trying to get to the other side), everything else is perfectly normal. That is, until the next day, when Dixie discovers a dead body on the other side of that parlor door, along with a note that seems to suggest she had something to do with it. Soon, there's another victim, and then another note, and Dixie quickly finds herself caught in a maze of mystery and danger, where all the clues have her name written all over them, and where she must find the murderer ... before he finds her"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Hemingway, Dixie (Fictitious character); Pet sitting; Women detectives;

Didion & Babitz / by Anolik, Lili,author.;
"Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in a closet in the back of an apartment full of wrack, ruin, and filth was a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. These boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside: journals, photos, scrapbooks, manuscripts, letters. No: inside a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and was centered on a two-story house rented by Joan Didion and her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood. 7406 Franklin Avenue, a combination salon-hotbed-living end where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock n' rollers, drug trash. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, cool and reserved behind her oversized sunglasses and storied marriage, a union as tortured as it was enduring. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the breaking and then the remaking -- and thus the true making-- of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. The two formed a complicated alliance: a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity; a friendship that was as rare as true love, as rare as true hate. Didion, in spite of her confessional style, her widespread fame, is so little known or understood. She's remained opaque, elusive. Until now. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence, and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters -- as the key to unlocking the mighty and mysterious Didion"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Babitz, Eve; Didion, Joan; Women authors, American;

The ghosts of Eden Park : the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked jazz-age America / by Abbott, Karen,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers," writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new Pontiacs for the women. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States. Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down. Willebrandt's bosses at the U.S. Attorney's office hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintain with Remus. Eager to prove them wrong, she dispatches her best investigator, Franklin Dodge, to look into his empire. It's a decision with deadly consequences: with Remus behind bars, Franklin and Imogene begin an affair and plot to ruin him, sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government-- and that can only end in murder. Combining deep historical research with novelistic flair, THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK is the unforgettable, stranger-than-fiction story of a rags-to-riches entrepreneur and a long-forgotten heroine, of the excesses and absurdities of the Jazz Age, and of the infinite human capacity to deceive"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Remus, George, 1878-1952; Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 1889-1963.; Trials (Murder); Uxoricide; Alcohol trafficking;

Donald J. Trump : a president like no other / by Black, Conrad,author.; Hanson, Victor Davis,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, turns his attention to his "friend" President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious in intellectual scope, contrarian in many of its opinions, and admirably concise, this is surely set to be one of the most provocative political books you are likely to read this year.
Subjects: Biographies.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Presidents; Real estate developers; Businessmen;

Money Talks. by Ratner, Brett,film director.; Sheen, Charlie,actor.; Tucker, Chris,actor.; Neal, Elise,actor.; Locklear, Heather,actor.; Wright, Michael,actor.; Sorvino, Paul,actor.; Warner Bros. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker, Elise Neal, Heather Locklear, Michael Wright, Paul SorvinoOriginally produced by Warner Bros. in 1997.Fast-talking con man Franklin Hatchett (Chris Tucker) is wrongfully accused of killing cops and needs protection from the police, the mob and his very pregnant girlfriend. Struggling television newsman James Russell (Charlie Sheen) needs a story. The two meet, and it's like a match to gasoline as they dodge bullets in a series of hair-raising escapes involving big diamonds, fast cars and a deadly game of hide-and-seek.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Crime.; California.; Buddy films.;

Zookeeper [videorecording] / by Cher,1946-; Apatow, Judd,1967-; Bibb, Leslie.; Coraci, Frank.; Dawson, Rosario.; Favreau, Jon.; James, Kevin,1965-; Jeong, Ken.; Nolte, Nick.; Rickles, Don.; Rogan, Joe,1967-; Rudolph, Maya.; Sandler, Adam.; Stallone, Sylvester.; Turturro, Nicholas.; Wahlberg, Donnie,1969-; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.;
Screenplay by Nick Bakay, Rock Reuben, Kevin James, Jay Scherick and David Ronn; editor Scott Hill; director of photography Michael Barrett; music by Rupert Gregson-Williams.Kevin James, Donnie Wahlberg, Joe Rogan, Nicholas Turturro, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau, Don Rickles, Cher, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Maya Rudolph, Ken Jeong.The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship, animal style.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Human-animal relationships; Zoo keepers; Zoos;
© c2011., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment,

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