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      By Ivory, James  Jaffrey, Saeed, 1929-  Samar, Kareem  Sehgal, Zohra
       2005., General, Home Vision Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Courtesans   Edition: Full screen version.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Pavan Pool is an enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. Crammed tenements house thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing, and by inference, seduction. The film is about a tradition with a special place in Indian society: the entertainment of paying customers - always men - by songstresses and dancers who perform in the classical Hindustani styles of the ancient "nautch" girls.
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      By Turteltaub, H. N
       2002., Tor Call No: Fic Tur    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The vast tapestry of the Hellenic world unfolds in this stirring tale of two traders from the island of Rhodes, who range across the wind-blown face of the beautiful and treacherous Mediterranean in search of adventure and profits.
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      By Ivory, James  Tushingham, Rita, 1942-  York, Michael, 1942-  Dutt, Utpal
       2012, p1968., Twentyeth Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic Guru    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar (musical instrument) from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan. Tom is taken to Zafar's home, where he gets to meet his wife and several daughters, and the maestro himself. Zafar never has had a disciple as Tom, and is clearly disappointed with his lack of respect. Nevertheless, he asks him to travel to Banares with him. Also accompanying them is a young Caucasian woman named Jenny, who Zafar has taken a liking to, much to his wife's displeasure, and who is more respectful of him than Tom. In Banaras, they get to meet Zafar's aging Guru, and his mistress, Ghazala, who is expecting a child soon. Zafar hopes that it will be a son. Zafar's Guru is quite disappointed with him for having Tom and Jenny as his disciples. An over-awed and overwrought Jenny decides to take it easy - and it is then she witnesses the murder of a courtesan. Watch as events unfold in this peaceful town of Banaras that will change the lives and thought-processes of Zafar, Tom, and Jenny, forever.
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      By Fry, John, 1930-
       2013., Dundurn Press Call No: Bio F946f    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec.A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the worldœs great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry was the Lloydœs agent for the St. Lawrence River, east of Montreal. The harbour coves below his home in Quebec were crammed with immense rafts of cut wood, the riverœs shoreline sprawled with yards where giant square-rigged ships many owned by Fry were built.
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      By Burton, Jessie, 1982-
       [2014]., Adult, HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Bur   Edition: First Canadian edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.
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      By Bellevue, Doug
       c2017., [s.n.] Call No: SC 971.428 B442m    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: details a magical period in the history of Montreal, Quebec and Canada. From the 1860œs to the 1930œs Montrealœs Merchant Princes built their grand estates at the foot of Mount Royal overlooking the city. From this unique neighborhood these residents presided over a social, commercial and industrial renaissance that joined a nation from coast to coast. The collective contribution of these families to the establishment and development of Canada is nothing less than remarkable. MONTREALœS GOLDEN SQUARE MILE A NEIGHBORHOOD highlights Montrealœs social and corporate heritage as one of the most significant contributions in the history of Canadaœs development. A Literary and photographic retrospective elaborating on the individual and family contributions to the building of a nation this volume features more than 600 historical images including over 350 images by Canadian photographic pioneer William Notman, the largest print publication of his work to date.