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When we lost our heads / by O'Neill, Heather,author.;
"A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history. Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly, and brilliant, moves to the neighborhood. Marie and Sadie are immediately united by their passion and intensity, and they attract and repel each other in ways that light each of them on fire. Marie with her bubbly charm sees the light and sweetness of the world, whereas Sadie's obsession with darkness is all consuming. Soon their childlike games take on a thrill of danger and then become deadly. Forced to separate, they spend their teenage years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity-until a singular event unites them once more, with dizzying effects. And after Marie inherits her father's sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city's gritty underworld, a revolution of the working class begins to foment. Each of them will have unexpected roles to play in events that upend their city-the only question is whether they will find each other once more. Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Social classes; Sugar factories; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
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Never! never! never! / by Enderle, Dotti,1954-(CARDINAL)668665; McWilliam, Howard,1977-illustrator.(CARDINAL)494850;
Mrs. Goolsby's class is on a field trip at the sugar factory when they discover the factory is haunted and Malcolm and Dandy decide to get rid of the ghost once and for all.The booger factory? -- Majestic sugar -- Let's move on -- The tale of Beatrice Salt -- The master plan -- Ew! -- Ring! Ring! -- Sugar storm -- Plan B -- The dust scooper -- Vrrrrrrrrm!Accelerated ReaderAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Fiction.; Haunted places;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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From sugar beet to sugar / by Owings, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)502700;
Includes bibliographical references and index.First, workers harvest the sugar beets -- Then trucks carry the beets to a factory -- Next, the beets are washed -- A machine slices the beets -- Then another machine extracts the sugar -- Next, workers purify the sugary liquid -- Then some of the sugar forms crystals -- The crystals are separated from the liquid -- Finally, the sugar is ready to eat."How do sugar beets become sugar? Follow each step--from planting sugar beets to sprinkling sugar on your cereal--in this fascinating book!"--Ages 5-9.580LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Beet sugar; Sugar beet; Sugar trade; Sugar;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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12 rounds 2 [videorecording] : Reloaded / by Benullo, David.; Busby, Cindy.; Furst, Nathan.; Luisi, Michael J.; Markinson, Brian.; Orton, Randy.(CARDINAL)495144; Rein©♭, Roel.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.(CARDINAL)137420; WWE Studios.;
Music, Nathan Furst ; editor, Radu Ion ; director of photography, Anthony Metchie.Randy Orton, Cindy Busby, Brian Markinson.Paramedic Nick Malloy is plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse when he receives a terrifying phone call from a vengeful psychopath connected to his past. The maniac threatens to unleash a murder spree unless Nick can complete a series of twelve challenges without involving the cops or missing a single deadline.MPAA rating: R; for violence, language, some sexuality/nudity, and brief drug use.DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1), Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Emergency medical technicians; Vigilantes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Funny bunny factory. by Green, Adam,1916-2000,author.(CARDINAL)624246; Weisgard, Leonard,1916-2000,illustrator.(CARDINAL)151349;
"When hundreds of adorable bunnies make an abandoned factory their new home, they discover treasures like sugar eggs, penny candy, and party hats. But one little bunny isn't interested in any of these discoveries--he just wants carrots"--Page 4 of cover.AD490L
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Carrots; Factories; Rabbits;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo / by Reiss, Tom.(CARDINAL)392270; David Lindroth Inc.(CARDINAL)463210;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-403) and index.Prologue, part 1 : February 26, 1806 -- Prologue, part 2 : January 25, 2007 -- The sugar factory -- The Black Code -- Norman Conquest -- "No one is a slave in France" -- Americans in Paris -- Black Count in the City of Light -- A queen's dragoon -- Summers of revolution -- "Regeneration by blood" -- "The black heart also beats for liberty" -- "Mr. Humanity" -- The battle for the top of the world -- The bottom of the Revolution -- The siege -- The Black Devil -- Leader of the expedition -- "The delirium of his republicanism" -- Dreams on fire -- Prisoner of the Holy Faith Army -- "Citizeness Dumas...is worried about the fate of her husband" -- The dungeon -- Wait and hope -- The forgotten statue.Traces the story of the mixed-race swordsman and father of novelist Alexandre Dumas, discussing his rise to the French aristocracy, his military triumphs ,and the adventures that inspired such classics as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo."
Subjects: Biographies.; Dumas, Thomas Alexandre, 1762-1806.; Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870; France. Armée; Generals;
Available copies: 31 / Total copies: 39
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Floozombies! / by Carman, Patrick,author.(CARDINAL)465696; Sheesley, Brian,illustrator.(CARDINAL)410888;
Harold Fuzzwonker, his best pal, Floyd, and the Fizzies must figure out how to convey gallons of Fizz to the Snood Candy Factory, where the creatures are occupied with a world class sugar surge, without uncovering Fizzpolis.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Inventions; Animals, Mythical; Best friends;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Slavery : the story of João, Wally, Oopjen, Paulus, van Bengalen, Surapati, Sapali, Tula, Dirk, Lohkay / by Sint Nicolaas, E.,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)853018; Smeulders, Valika,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)853019; Holtrop, Maria,contributor.(CARDINAL)853020; Archangel, Stephanie,contributor.(CARDINAL)835715; Lambrechts, Lisa,contributor.(CARDINAL)853021; Fatah-Black, Karwan,contributor.(CARDINAL)853022; Gosselink, Martine,contributor.(CARDINAL)853023; Rijksmuseum (Netherlands),host institution.(CARDINAL)138433;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-334) and index."What did a woman who lived and worked under slavery know about her 'owner' in the Dutch Republic? What did an owner of a sugar factory in Amsterdam know about the circumstances under which the sugar he processed was grown? And what did a freedom fighter on Curaçao know about the struggle for equal civil rights in Europe? Under Dutch rule during the colonial era, more than a million men, women and children from Asia and Africa were enslaved and shipped to the other side of the world. Very little is known about their lives. Using a variety of sources, Slavery provides a portrait of ten people from this period: people who suffered under the slavery system, people who rose in resistance against it and people who profited from it. This broad palette of individual experiences reveals diverse facets of the Dutch history of slavery and gives us a unique insight into the societal reality of the time"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Catalogs.; Slavery; Enslaved persons; Enslaved persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Capitalism and its critics : a history : from the Industrial Revolution to AI / by Cassidy, John,1963-author.(CARDINAL)665435;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-569) and index."A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, inequality, trade wars, and a right-wing populist backlash to globalization are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company and Industrial Revolution to the digital revolution. But here John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system's critics. From the English Luddites who rebelled against early factory automation to communists in Germany and Russia in the early twentieth century, to the Latin American dependistas, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement, the absorbing narrative traverses the globe. It visits with familiar names-Smith, Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, Polanyi-but also focuses on many less familiar figures, including Flora Tristan, the French proponent of a universal labor union; Thomas Carlyle, the conservative prophet of the moral depredations of the market; John Hobson, the original theorist of imperialism; J. C. Kumarappa, the Indian exponent of Gandhian economics; Eric Williams, the Trinidadian author of a famous thesis on slavery and capitalism; Joan Robinson, the Cambridge economist and critic of Keynes; and Samir Amin, the leftist French-Egyptian economist and analyst of globalization."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Biographies.; Capitalism; Economic history.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 14
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The truth behind snack foods / by Quinlan, Julia J.,author.(CARDINAL)396972; Furgang, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)488293;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Too much of a tasty thing -- The ill effects on the body short term -- The ill effects on the body long term -- Eat healthy snacks now!We all know that eating too much sugar and too much salt isn't good for us. It will surprise readers to learn just how dangerous eating too many sugary and salty snacks can be. Chips and candy are obvious culprits, but fruit snacks and other seemingly healthy snacks can also have high levels of sugar and salt. In this eye-opening book, readers will learn to look more critically at the snacks they eat and will learn about the serious, long-term health problems that are associated with a diet high in sugar and salt.Grade level 5-8.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Food; Snack foods; Junk food;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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