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Awards Season!
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"The early history of the formation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its most famous award--the Oscar--as told by its former executive director who reveals many previously unknown stories"--Provided by publisher.
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"In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas—some iconic, others never-before-revealed—that have played out on the stage and off camera. Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular…
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"Vanity Fair: Oscar Night Sessions presents 10 years of luminous photographic portraits of Hollywood celebrities who attended the most exclusive and glamorous after-party of the year in a gorgeous volume. For the past decade, photographer Mark Seliger has set up an elaborate pop-up studio inside…
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"Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"-…
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A comprehensive, chronological history surveying over ninety years of fashion on the Oscars red carpet.
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International Women's Day
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"Learn all about women's rights activism, from pay equity to women in the combat. Get a global look at the history of the movement, meet the activists involved, and celebrate some of the legal victories! Each chapters end with a call to action, so kids can feel inspired to get involved in their own…
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"In a beautiful picture book brimming with G for Groundbreaking women, writer, poet, and National Book Award nominee, Rio Cortez, and illustrator Lauren Semmer celebrate all the joys, challenges, and historic forward movement of women's history in the United States. This is a book of people, of…
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"Vera and Mamma are headed out for a march, but it's not just any march: It's October 24 in Reykjavík, and on this day in 1975, the women--farmworkers, butchers, and fisherwomen; wives, daughters, and children--took the day off, walked out of their homes and away from their jobs, and marched to…
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"Discusses the history of Women's International Day, its importance, and how it is celebrated in Canada."--Provided by publisher.
If You Like Wuthering Heights…
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"As the abandoned son of a Lascar—a sailor from India—Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an…
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Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to…
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"In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman's fate when it summons her to Briarton Park--an ancient place that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future... Cassandra Hale grew up knowing little about her parentage, and she had made peace with the fact that she never…
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It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his…
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A novel about the problems of a young governess, whose love affair with her master is terminated when the terrifying mystery surrounding the upper rooms of their home is exposed.
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"He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca. . . Everyone knows that Maxim de Winter was obsessed with his glamorous wife – and devastated by her tragic death. So when he proposes to a shy, anxious young woman after a whirlwind meeting in the South of France, no one is more surprised…
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Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and…
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"'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London…
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This "retelling of Jane Eyre, set in a modern-day law firm, is full of romance and hope as it follows the echoing heartbeats of the classic story. A former foster kid, Jane has led a quiet, solitary life as a waitress in the Toronto suburbs, working hard to get by. Tired of years of barely scraping…
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1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily--her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She…
Arctic Tales
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"The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--
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"What does it mean to explore and confront the unknown? Beyond the Trees recounts Adam Shoalts's epic, solo crossing of Canada's mainland Arctic in a single season--the first in recorded history. It's also a multilayered story that weaves the narrative of Shoalts's journey into accounts of other…
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"In Frostlines, Neil Shea reveals how beauty, chaos, and power of change in the far north are reflected in the individual lives of people and animals. Structured as a revolution around the pole from east to west, Shea sojourns with a wolf pack on Canada's Ellesmere Island and travels among the…
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"The Canadian North is a vast and lonely land where bears roam free, fires rage unchecked, and storms blast every living thing on the tundra. When Stephan Kesting, already no stranger to pushing his own physical limits, was faced with a rare illness, he knew the only way for him to recover in both…
Celebrating Canadian Icon Catherine O’Hara
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When 8-year-old Kevin is inadvertently left at home when his family leaves for Paris, he does his best to defend the house against burglars.
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Jack Skellington is the King of Halloween. He becomes bored with the same routine every year. He decides to take a walk in the woods. There, he discovered a door leading to Christmastown and decides to spread Christmas joy to the world. When he is back in Halloweentown he shows his friends what…
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A comic look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them).
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"Great news--Kevin McCallister is spending the holidays in New York City. Bad news--his parents are spending them in Florida! Separated once again from his family, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his dad's credit card. But his big-spending solo act takes a dangerous turn when the…
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After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their…
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Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the…
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Created by and starring Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy, this irreverent and original character-driven comedy centres on the 'reversal of fortune' story of the once filth-rich Rose family. Suddenly finding themselves broke, the Roses are forced to rebuild their empire in Schitt's Creek, a small town…
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SCTV was the first television show based entirely upon the concept of satirizing the medium of television itself, which enabled the performers to skewer everything from feature films, promos and commercials to such familiar local television staples as late-night horror movie hosts and the backstage…
So Grumpy!
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"Cranky is feeling, well, cranky. But don't ask why. Because you know what doesn't help when you're feeling cranky? Everyone asking you what's wrong! Is there anything that will help? Find out in this irresistible story about big trucks, big feelings, and even bigger friendships"--Front flap of…
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A snarky tale of a very cranky book that might not be so cranky after all.
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A grumpy wolf cub has a bad day, until he meets a penguin with a similar disposition.
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"The Sour Grape holds grudges for every reason under the sun. Lime never returned a scarf they borrowed? Grudge! Orange never called back? Grudge! But when a friend holds a grudge against the Sour Grape without listening to an explanation, the Sour Grape realizes how unfair grudges can be. Could a…
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Little Dump Truck is the happiest member of the crew until she has a bad day, and then her grumpiness affects everyone.
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Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.
“Heated” Hockey Reads
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JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a…
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Evelyn was raised to see field hockey as war. Before she could write her own name, her family's legacy on the field was already spelled out. Every step Evelyn takes toward glory is within a footprint her mother left behind. And no step matters more than this next one, with Evelyn about to lead her…
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"Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down in NHL history, Mickey is almost guaranteed the league's top draft spot. The only person standing in his way is Jaysen Caulfield, a…
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"Ryu Mori has had a stellar season as goalie for the Atlanta Venom. So when he’s called into management’s office, he’s expecting to hear he’s the new starting goalie for the team, not that some new guy—an incredibly hot, annoyingly bratty rookie—is here to compete for his spot. Not everyone gets to…
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