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I'm Still Here. by Affleck, Casey,film director.; Langdon, Antony,actor.; Perloff, Carey,actor.; Phoenix, Joaquin,actor.; Magnolia Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Antony Langdon, Carey Perloff, Joaquin PhoenixOriginally produced by Magnolia Pictures in 2010.I’M STILL HERE is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Drama.; Comedy.; Motion pictures.;

Waterloo : the history of four days, three armies and three battles / by Cornwell, Bernard,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment of the Battle of Waterloo, from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers.
Subjects: Armies; Europe; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815.;

A nation's paper : the Globe and mail in the life of Canada / by Ibbitson, John,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From Canada's newspaper of record for 180 years, here are thirty-one brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse selection of their current writers on how the Globe and Mail covered and influenced major events and issues from the paper's founding in 1844 to the latest file. Since 1844, the Globe and Mail and its predecessor, George Brown's Globe, have chronicled Canada: as a colony, a dominion, and a nation. To mark the paper's 180th anniversary, Globe writers explored thirty issues and events in which the national newspaper has influenced the course of the country: Confederation, settler migrations, regional tensions, tussles over language, religion, and race. The essays reveal a tapestry of progress, conflict, and still-incomplete reconciliation: Catholic-Protestant hostilities that are now mostly the stuff of memory; the betrayal of Indigenous peoples with which we still grapple; the frustrations and triumphs of women journalists; pandemics old and new; environmental challenges; the joys of covering sports and the arts; chronicling the nation's business, international coverage, the impossibility of Canada and of this newspaper, which both somehow flourish nonetheless. Riveting, insightful, disturbing, witty, and always a joy to read, A Nation's Paper chronicles a country and a newspaper that have grown and struggled together -- essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where we came from and where we are going."--
Subjects: Essays.; Globe and mail; Canadian newspapers;

King of New York. by Ferrara, Abel,film director.; Walken, Christopher,actor.; Caruso, David,actor.; Esposito, Giancarlo,actor.; Julian, Janet,actor.; Chin, Joey,actor.; Fishburne, Laurence,actor.; Argo, Victor,actor.; Snipes, Wesley,actor.; Lionsgate (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Giancarlo Esposito, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley SnipesOriginally produced by Lionsgate in 1990.In New York, crime gets done Frank's way, or it doesn't get done at all. Recently freed from prison, Frank White (Christopher Walken) hooks up with his old crew to challenge the drug lords that rose to power in his absence. Unable to keep him behind bars, a group of enraged cops declare war on him. Frank's answer is to put a contract out on the cops. Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken stars in this mesmerizing, ultraviolent street drama of a city on the edge. Larry Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, and Giancarlo Esposito also star in director Abel Ferrara's riveting and horrifyingly realistic story of one man who takes the city beyond its limits.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).; Drama.; Motion pictures.;

Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the south seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune / by Thomson, Keith,1965-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough, 'Born to be Hanged' is a riveting account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England.
Subjects: Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.; Piracy; Pirates;

The wild one : a novel / by McKeegan, Colleen,author.;
In this dark and twisted coming-of-age debut thriller, a deadly childhood secret that binds three young women threatens to destroy their lives. Addictive from its first pages, Colleen McKeegans 'The Wild One' mines all the complexities and darkness of young women in the battleground of summer camp, fashioning a riveting tale of secrets, shame and a harrowing reckoning. - NYT bestselling author Megan Abbott.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Camps; Graduate students; Female friendship; Secrecy;

Spirit of the grassroots people : seeking justice for Indigenous survivors of Canada's colonial education system / by Mason, Raymond,1946-author.; Pind, Jackson,1993-editor.; Christou, Theodore Michael,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers a firsthand account of the personal and political challenges Mason confronted on this journey. A riveting and at times harrowing read, Spirit of the Grassroots People describes the author's experiences in Indian day and residential schools in Manitoba and his struggles to find meaning in life after trauma and abuse. Mason details the work that he and his colleagues did over many years to gain recognition and compensation for their suffering. Drawing from Indigenous oral traditions as well as Western historiography, the work applies the concept of two-eyed seeing to the histories of colonialism and education in Canada. The memoir is supplemented by a final chapter in which Theodore Michael Christou and Jackson Pind put Mason's story into a historical and educational context. An essential key to understanding the legacy of Indian residential and day schools, this text is both a documentation of history and a deeply personal story of a human experience."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Mason, Raymond, 1946-; Adult child abuse victims; Ojibwe;

Mad Richard / by Krueger, Lesley,author.;
"A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England. Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J.M.W. Turner. Based on Dadd's tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame - as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters - and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane. In 1853, Charlotte Brontë - about to publish her third novel, suffering from unrequited love, and herself wrestling with questions about art and artists, class, obsession and romance - visits Richard at Bedlam and finds an unexpected kinship in his feverish mind and his haunting work. Masterfully slipping through time and memory, Mad Richard maps the artistic temperaments of Charlotte and Richard, weaving their divergent lives together with their shared fears and follies, dreams, and crushing illusions."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Dadd, Richard, 1817-1886;

Whale fall / by Lambert, Ann,1957-author.;
"The third book in the Russell and Leduc Mystery series (Book One: The Birds That Stay and Book Two: The Dogs of Winter). Marie Russell and Detective Roméo Leduc are finally getting married, but the joyous occasion is overshadowed by the unexpected arrival of Magnus Sorenson, renowned eco-warrior and Marie's first great love. When Magnus' plans for a dramatic environmental protest take a dark turn, Roméo and Marie are forced to abandon their honeymoon in the Laurentians in order to catch a killer, unearthing long-buried secrets along the way. Fast-paced and chilling, Whale Fall is a riveting tale of love, vengeance, and climate justice."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Secrecy;

Blowout : corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on earth / by Maddow, Rachel,author.;
Includes bibliogrpahical references and index."Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, "like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature.""--
Subjects: Tillerson, Rex W., 1952-; Gas companies; Gas industry; Gas industry;

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