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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm
Description
"Experience a Haida fish camp through the delighted eyes of children as they learn from the land and from their Elders. Based on author Sara Florence Davidson's childhood memories, this illustrated story captures the joy and adventure of a Haida fish camp. Every summer, a Haida girl and her family travel up the Yakoun River on Haida Gwaii, following the salmon. While their father fishes, the girl and her brother spend their time on the land playing...
782) Our man in Havana
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. As deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors to a renegade supervised drug consumption site that employs active and former drug users. Its staff and volunteers do whatever it takes to save lives and give hope to a marginalized community in this intimate documentary that looks beyond the stigma of people who use fentanyl and other drugs.
784) Black narcissus
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Tilly has always known she's part Lakota on her dad's side. She's grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn't until an angry man shouts something on the street that Tilly realizes her mom is Aboriginal, too -- a Cree woman taken from her own parents as a baby. Tilly feels her mother's pain deeply. She's always had trouble fitting in at school, and when her grandma dies unexpectedly,...
787) A magical sturgeon
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Written and illustrated in the tradition of the Kwantlen people, Joseph Dandurand's second book is an endearing tale of two sisters and their connection with nature. In the water sat a sturgeon, born there, so they say, thousands of years ago, though the sturgeon themselves have been here for two hundred million years. It was at first a little egg, a big egg, born into the river. Now the sturgeon is back but how did it get here? How did the first...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages, 8 pages unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
789) Beyond the gates
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
19 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the Sudan decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, the Mahdi or 'Expected One'. The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman Ryder Courtney is trapped...
791) The haunted airman
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
RAF Flight Lieutenant Toby Jugg is wounded during the war and confined to a wheelchair. He arrives at a remote mansion in Wales to recuperate. While recovering he begins to suffer from terrible nightmares and visions. Toby finds that he can't trust the hospital staff and psychologists, especially once other patients begin to die.
Author
Series
Harriet Gordon mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When Harriet Gordon receives a note from a friend about a tragic death, she and Inspector Curran are thrust into a web of family secrets that threatens to destroy them both in this all-new mystery from the author of Singapore Sapphire. Inspector Curran arrives at the scene of a brutal murder. Sylvie Nolan, the new and much younger wife of the lieutenant colonel John Nolan, a commanding officer currently posted to Singapore, has been bludgeoned to...
793) Chamber divers: the untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers--men and women--who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Description
"An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France. To make his plan work, he needed people who could secretly...
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