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The Marvels [videorecording] / by Ashton, Zawe,actor.; Jackson, Samuel L.,actor.; Larson, Brie,1989-actor.; Parris, Teyonah,actor.; Pak, Sŏ-jun,1988-actor.; Shroff, Zenobia(Actor),actor.; Vellani, Iman,actor.; DaCosta, Nia,1989-film director,screenwriter.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Marvel Studios,production company.; Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.;
Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton, Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris, Park Seo-Joon, Zenobia Shroff.Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole, her powers are entangled with super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and work together to save the universe.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Superhero films.; Captain Marvel (Fictitious character from Marvel Comics Group); Danvers, Carol (Fictitious character); Marvel, Ms. (Fictitious character); Rambeau, Monica (Fictitious character); Fury, Nick (Fictitious character); Human-alien encounters; Imaginary wars and battles; Female friendship; Extraterrestrial beings; Superheroes; Women superheroes;
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Daughters of Shandong / by Chung, Eve J.,author.;
"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother-abused by the family for failing to birth a boy-finds her own small acts of rebellion in the kitchen. As the Communist army closes in on their town, the rest of the prosperous household flees, leaving behind the girls and their mother because they view them as useless mouths to feed. Without an Ang male to punish, the land-seizing cadres choose Hai, as the eldest child, to stand trial for her family's crimes. She barely survives their brutality. Realizing the worst is yet to come, the women plan their escape. Starving and penniless but resourceful, they forge travel permits and embark on a thousand-mile journey to confront the family that abandoned them. From the countryside to the bustling city of Qingdao, and onward to British Hong Kong and eventually Taiwan, they witness the changing tide of a nation and the plight of multitudes caught in the wake of revolution. But with the loss of their home and the life they've known also comes new freedom-to take hold of their fate, to shake free of the bonds of their gender, and to claim their own story. Told in assured, evocative prose, with impeccably drawn characters, Daughters of Shandong is a hopeful, powerful story about the resilience of women in war; the enduring love between mothers, daughters, and sisters; and the sacrifices made to lift up future generations"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; Patriarchy; Rich people; Sisters; Torture; War victims; Women;

Mrs. Endicott's splendid adventure : a novel / by Bowen, Rhys,author.;
"Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband's appeal for divorce. It's Ellie's opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She's taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora -- each needing escape -- impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France. With the Rhône surging beside them, they have nowhere to be and everywhere to go. Until the Bentley breaks down in the inviting fishing hamlet of Saint Benet. Here, Ellie rents an abandoned villa in the hills, makes wonderful friends among the villagers, and finds herself drawn to Nico, a handsome and enigmatic fisherman. As for unexpected destinations, the simple paradis of Saint Benet is perfect. But fates soon change when the threat of war encroaches. Ellie's second act in life is just beginning -- and becoming an adventure she never expected"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Automobile travel; British; Divorced women; Female friendship; Fishers; Friendship; Life change events; Man-woman relationships; Older women; Self-actualization (Psychology); Small cities; Villages; Voyages and travels; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

Horizon, an American saga. [videorecording] / by Abbey Lee,1987-actor.; Costner, Kevin,film director,actor,film producer,screenwriter.; Dickey, Dale,actor.; Huston, Danny,1962-actor.; Kasdan, Mark,screenwriter.; Malone, Jena,1984-actor.; Miller, Sienna,1981-actor.; Patton, Will,actor.; Payne, Tom,1982-actor.; Rooker, Michael,1955-actor.; Wilson, Luke,1971-actor.; Worthington, Sam,1976-actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Kevin Costner, Dale Dickey, Jena Malone, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Danny Huston, Tom Payne, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Will Patton, Luke Wilson.Explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won, and lost, through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Kevin Costner's ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence, some nudity and sexuality.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Western films.; Cowboys; Families; Frontier and pioneer life; Gunfighters; Male friendship; Man-woman relationships; Pioneers; Wilderness survival; Women pioneers;
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Unsung heroes of the Royal Canadian Air Force : incredible tales of courage and daring during World War II / by Faryon, Cynthia J.,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references.A collection of stories about the courageous men and women of the Royal Canadian Air Force and their battles of World War II.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Milena and Margarete : a love story in Ravensbrück / by Strauss, Gwen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances. From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish refugees. German Margarete, born to a middle-class family, married the son of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. But soon swept up in the fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution, she met her second partner, the Communist Heinz Neumann. Called to Moscow for his "political deviations," he fell victim to Stalin's purges while Margarete was exiled to the hell of the Soviet gulag. Two years later, traded by Stalin to Hitler, she ended up outside Berlin in Ravensbrück, the only concentration camp built for women. Milena and Margarete loved each other at the risk of their lives. But in the post-war survivors' accounts, lesbians were stigmatized, and survivors kept silent. This book explores those silences, and finally celebrates two strong women who never gave up and continue to inspire. As Margaret wrote: "I was thankful for having been sent to Ravensbrück, because it was there I met Milena.""--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 1901-1989.; Jesenská, Milena, 1896-1944.; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp); Lesbians; Women Nazi concentration camp inmates; World War, 1939-1945;

It's what I do : a photographer's life of love and war / by Addario, Lynsey.;
Subjects: Addario, Lynsey.; War photographers; War photography; Women photographers;

Walk in my combat boots : true stories from America's bravest warriors / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Eversmann, Matt,author.; Mooney, Chris,author.;
Shares firsthand wartime accounts describing the courageous battlefield sacrifices of men and women from every branch and operational specialty of the U.S. military, from the Vietnam War through the present.
Subjects: Biographies.; Soldiers; Military biography;

A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert / by Piper, Karen Lynnea,1965-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles. The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and--when she needed summer jobs--herself. Her dad designed the Sidewinder, which was ultimately used catastrophically in Vietnam. When her mom got tired of being a stay-at-home mom, she went to work on the Tomahawk. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, and set off down a Los Angeles freeway. Traffic was heavy, and so she stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper sketches in the belief systems--from Amway's get-rich schemes to propaganda in The Rocketeer to evangelism, along with fears of a Lemurian takeover and Charles Manson--that governed their lives. Her memoir is also a search for the truth of the past and what really brought her parents to China Lake with two young daughters, a story that reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe. Finally, it recounts the crossroads moment in a young woman's life when she finally found a way out of a culture of secrets and fear, and out of the desert."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-; Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005.; Piper, Mary Dahlstrom.; Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.); United States. Office of Strategic Services; Guided missiles; Electronic technicians; Young women; Cold War.;

The war begins in Paris : a novel / by Wheeler, Theodore,author.;
From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Americans; Nazis; Propaganda; Women war correspondents; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

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