Summary: The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED RBoukreev, Anatoli
Summary: Draws from the recollections of climbing guide Anatoli Boukreev and other survivors to tell the story of the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest which occurred on May 10, 1996, when twenty-three climbers from two commercial expeditions were caught in a killing storm while attempting to reach their high-altitude base camp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 BOUAnatoli, A.
Summary: Babi Yar is a ravine outside the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and by local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place 29-30 September 1941, killing 33,771 Jews. This book records the author's experience under the Nazis in the Ukraine. Anatoli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANAVermette, Katherena
Summary: "A young girl becomes lost in the woods after wandering too far away from her mother. Scared because she is lost, she encounters a large wolf who reminds her of her own ability to survive and find her mother again."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theytus Books Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VERVermette, Katherena
Summary: "In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the "road allowance" land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as "Rooster Town" in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRVermette, Katherena
Summary: Echo Desjardins, a thirteen-year-old Métis girl, is struggling with feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRLiberman, Anatoly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word LibermanVermette, Katherena
Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself transported back in time to 1869, when Maetis resistance fighters battle against Canadian surveyors for access to land in the Red River Valley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRVermette, Katherena
Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself traveling back in time to 1816 in the middle of a Métis bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie just before a deadly battle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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2 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRChujoy, Anatole
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1967
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 793.3 CHUFRANCE, ANATOLE
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Sheherazade. The sea and Sinbad's ship (9:35) ; The story of the Kalendar Prince (12:30) ; The young prince and the princess (10:56) ; The festival at Baghdad, the sea, shipwreck, conclusion (12:33) / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- Baba-Yaga (3:13) ; The enchanted lake (8:02) ; Kikimora (7:32) / Anatol Lyadov.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RIMSummary: Tsar Yeremy is caught by the enchanted creature Chudo-Yudo the Lawless and agrees to give Chudo-Yudo any valuables in his kingdom that he doesn't know about. The tsar returns home and discovers that he has a son. Determined to hide his son from Chudo-Yudo, the tsar has his son exchanged with a fisherman's son. Unbeknownst to everyone, there is a mix-up in the exchange and the tsar's real son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RUSCICO 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SOLRobeson, Paul
Contents: Every time I feel the spirit / arr. L. Brown -- Balm in Gilead / arr. Burleigh -- Volga boat song -- Monologue from Othello / Shakespeare -- O thou silent night / Alexandrov -- Chinese children's song -- My curly headed baby / Clutsam -- Old man river / Kern -- Going home / Dvorak ; arr. Fisher --Monologue from Boris Godunov ; The orphan / Mussorgsky -- Christ lag in Todesbanden / Bach --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS ROBAnatol, Giselle Liza
Summary: In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANASummary: At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STAAnsamblʹ pesni i pli͡a︡ski "Krasnai͡a︡ zvezda."
Contents: Regimental polka / music, B. Terentiev ; words, V. Gurian (3:12) -- Meadowland / music, Lev Knipper ; words, V. Gusev (2:24) -- Kalinka : Russian folk song (4:35) -- Volga Boat song : Russian folk song (4:59) -- The sun set [i.e. sunset] behind a mountain / music, M. Blanter ; words, A. Kovalenko (3:03) -- The swallow : Armenian folk song (4:03) -- The pine trees are rustling : Russian folk...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teldec 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/RUSSIAN REDSummary: Anton fights the forces of darkness while trying to find and save his son, but when vampires from the dark side mysteriously get killed, he is framed for their murders and must now try to escape the Day Watch who is looking for his blood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time. Features classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERArtist Not Provided
Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004