Summary: "British Columbia's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into an unstoppable business giant, dubbed by those involved as "The Union." Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through interviews with growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNISummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORIFiles, Meg
Summary: "It's easy to write about your feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Writing what you know will guide you in identifying story-worthy material and transforming your raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Words FilesSummary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.825 FIRFoles, Nick
Summary: Get ready to defy the odds when everyone's counting you out. When the Philadelphia Eagles' starting quarterback went down with a torn ACL in week 14 of the 2017 NFL season, many fans--and commentators--assumed the Eagles' season was over. Instead, Nick Foles came off the bench and, against all odds, led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl victory in history. How did Nick get it done--winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOLES, NICK FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FOLES FOLLondon, Martha
Summary: "Books, television shows, and movies have illustrated the adventures of cowboys, sharpshooters, and outlaws of the Wild West. But many popular stories about the American West have gotten some facts wrong and left others out altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Wild West dives into the myths about what life was like for settlers and Native American peoples in the West and brings the truth to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J978 LONSummary: Set in a former mining village in Wales, an inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DAR
Biles, Simone
Summary: "Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BILBondy, Filip.
Summary: Traces the highs and lows of United States participation in international men's soccer, and follows the team's route to qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 BONFiges, Orlando
Summary: "The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 FIGHuxford, Folks
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1951
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3758 PIOAiles, Roger
Summary: Examines the rise and fall of the late media mogul, Roger Ailes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVCsányi, Vilmos
Summary: "How do dogs think? After a decade of research, the noted ethologist Vilmos Csanyi has captured the high degree of mutual understanding and empathy that exists between humans and their proverbial best friends. Drawing in part on close observation of his own dogs, Flip and Jerry, Csanyi argues that the long-standing alliance of dogs and humans arose from the problem-solving and communication...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CSANILES, BLAIR
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1946
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.082 NILVentura, Marne
Summary: Elon Musk is known as a visionary entrepreneur for his work in renewable energy and space technology. Elon Musk: Entrepreneur and Innovator explores Musk's vision for improving the world and how he plans to accomplish his ambitious goals. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MUSJiles, Paulette
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 JIL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.3 JIL
Summary: Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASWeso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)
Summary: In this food memoir, named for the manoomin or wild rice that also gives the Menominee tribe its name, tribal member Thomas Pecore Weso takes readers on a cook’s journey through Wisconsin’s northern woods. He connects each food—beaver, trout, blackberry, wild rice, maple sugar, partridge—with colorful individuals who taught him Indigenous values. Cooks will learn from his authentic recipes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 WESSummary: Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEYDavidson, Wilma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.066 DAVEldredge, Niles.
Contents: The duality of life -- Obsessed with genes -- Chickens and eggs : the two sides of life -- The natural economy -- The consequences of baby making -- Economics + babies + time = evolution -- Clones, colonies, and social life -- Human singularities -- Naught so queere as folke : the strange biology of modern humans -- The human triangle -- Sex decoupled -- Up close and personal : sex, power,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 ELDFiges, Orlando.
Summary: A landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression. We know of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement and killing in the gulags. No previous book, however, has explored the regime's effect on people's personal lives. Now, drawing on a huge collection of newly discovered documents, this book reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2007