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[2010]., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Extraordinary Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On the fast track and ready to taste the success of corporate America, John Crowley walks away from it all in hopes of finding a cure for two of his fatally ill children. With his wife Aileen by his side, he teams up with brilliant, but unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill, and together they form a company to develop a life-saving drug. But just when it appears that a solution may be found, the relationship between the men is tested and the fate of John's children is at stake.
![Extraordinary measures [DVD] (2010). Directed by Tom Vaughan.](/Library/images/~imageCT71268.JPG "Extraordinary measures [DVD] (2010). Directed by Tom Vaughan.")
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Tidewater Press Call No: QWF Fic Wal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spence is lost--the brief optimism of his early retirement and bold move from Vancouver to Montréal has devolved to a lonely round of French classes, winter cycling and watering his absent daughter's house plants. Distraction arrives in the form of a casual roommate, a mouse who moves into Spence 's apartment uninvited. Thierry is a petty thief with strong opinions and a foul mouth whose friendship helps Spence come to terms with the complex nature of his Catholic faith and memories of a troubled childhood. Spence and Thierry become partners in crime on a journey that is both moving et amusant, sacred et sacré bleu. An off-beat story about learning French and starting over.
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2019., Tim Duggan Books Call No: 304.28 W188u Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation"--
