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2011., Anvil Press Call No: Fic Gre Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in Surrey, BC, circa 1960, A Credit to Your Race is a story about innocent love awakening between a fifteen year old black porter's son and the white girl next door. The novel is a disturbing and convincing portrayal of how the full weight of racism and bigotry could come to bear on a youthful, interracial couple. A Credit to Your Race was published in 1973 in a press run of only a few hundred copies. We are pleased to be making this "lost" BC novel available to a new audience of readers.
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By Miller, Bruce Moss, Elisabeth, 1983- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- Strahovski, Yvonne, 1982- Fiennes, Ralph Bledel, Alexis, 1982- Dowd, Ann Fagbenle, O-T, 1980- Minghella, Max, 1985- Wiley, Samira Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Daniel Wilson Productions MGM-TV Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.2017., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Handmaid 1 Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The handmaid's tale Volume: 1Summary Note: A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
![The handmaid's tale, season 1 [DVD] (2017). Season one /](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The handmaid's tale, season 1 [DVD] (2017). Season one /")
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2019., 659, Twentieth Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic Handmaid 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The handmaid's tale Volume: 3Summary Note: Handmaid June finds herself once again in resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead after opting not to flee to Canada with her baby at the end of the second season. Now, she will struggle to strike back against the regime despite overwhelming odds. This season there are startling reunions, betrayals and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead that will force all of the characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer: Blessed be the fight.
![The handmaid's tale, season 3 [DVD] (2019). Season three.](/Library/images/~imageCT100734.JPG "The handmaid's tale, season 3 [DVD] (2019). Season three.")
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-- Handmaid's tale.2022., Adult, 519, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Handmaid 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In season four of 'The handmaid's tale,' June strikes back against Gilead as a fierce rebel leader, but the risks she takes bring unexpected and dangerous new challenges. Her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her and destroy her most cherished relationships."--
![The handmaid's tale, season 4 [DVD] (2021). Season four /](/Library/images/~imageCT102313.JPG "The handmaid's tale, season 4 [DVD] (2021). Season four /")
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2022., MGM Television Entertainment Call No: NEW DVD Fic Handmaid 5 Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Handmaid's Tale Volume: 5Summary Note: This season, June faces consequences for her past actions, Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto, Commander Lawrence works with Aunt Lydia to reform Gilead, and June, Luke and Moira fight Gilead and continue their mission to save Hannah.
![The handmaid's tale, season 5 [DVD] (2022)](/Library/images/~imageCT103163.JPG "The handmaid's tale, season 5 [DVD] (2022)")
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2020., Adult, 101, Universal Studios Canada Call No: DVD Fic NeverR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery and compassion.
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c2010., Doubleday Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.
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2014., General, Entertainment One Films Canada : distributed exclusively in Canada by Entertainment One Call No: DVD Fic Philomena Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Judi Dench stars in the story of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock and given up for adoption. Nearly 50 years later, Philomena meets Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), a former BBC reporter looking for his next big story. Together, they embark on a journey to locate her long lost son. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, the unlikely travel companions form a comic and heartwarming friendship. Based on the 2009 investigative book by Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, the film adaptation has been hailed as "a triumph for Judi Dench. Brilliant. A performance of grace, nuance and cinematic heroism." Mary Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE --Container.
![Philomena [DVD] (2014). Directed by Stephan Frears](/Library/images/~imageCT77895.JPG "Philomena [DVD] (2014). Directed by Stephan Frears")
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2000., Paramount Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Rosemary's Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Widescreen DVD collection.Summary Note: After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a young wife is impregnated by the Devil.
![Rosemary's baby [DVD] (1968). Directed by Roman Polanski.](/Library/images/~imageCT69949.JPG "Rosemary's baby [DVD] (1968). Directed by Roman Polanski.")
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2009., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Per Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Native American guide Jane Whitefield returns from retirement to the world of the runner determined to hide a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.
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By Ward, Jesmync2011., Adult, Bloomsbury USA Call No: BLK Fic War Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
