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Belfry Librarian – The Lehman Trilogy

Post author By Editorial Team
Post date April 10, 2024

The wonderful librarians at the Greater Victoria Public Library have compiled a list of books and videos to help you get even more out of our production of The Lehman Trilogy.

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (2021)

Americana: A 400-Year History of America Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan (2017)

The Big Short [DVD] by Adam McKay (2016)

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart (2023)

City of Sediction: The History of New York City During the Civil War by John Strausbaugh (2016)

Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers by Vicky Ward (2010)

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2014)

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland by Scott Shane (2023)

A History of the United States in Five Crashes by Scott Nations (2017)

The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel by Stefano Massini (2020)

The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America by Daniel Schulman (2023)

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein (2020)

Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers: A Memoir by Jared Dillian (2011)

Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism by Diana B. Henriques (2023)

The Wolf of Wall Street [DVD] by Martin Scorsese (2014)

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Belfry Librarian – As Above

Post author By Editorial Team
Post date January 24, 2024

The wonderful librarians at the Greater Victoria Public Library have compiled a list of books and videos to help you get even more out of our production of As Above.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

Brothers, Sisters, Strangers: Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation by Fern Schumer Chapman (2021)

Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them by Karl Pillemer, PhD (2020)

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard (2021)

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez PhD (2022)

From Survival to Recovery: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home by Al-Anon Family Group (2007)

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (2016)

Hooked: When Addiction Hits Home by Chloe Shantz-Hilkes (editor) with Decode (2013) – for kids

A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic by Mariko Kikuchi (2021) – graphic novel

On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel (2022)

The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison (2018)

The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors by David George Haskell (2017)

Stray: A Memoir by Stephanie Danler (2020)

Wishes and Worries: Coping with a Parent Who Drinks Too Much Alcohol by Lars Rudebjer (2011) – for kids

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Belfry Librarian – I Think I’m Fallin’: The Songs of Joni Mitchell

Post author By Editorial Team
Post date October 19, 2023

The wonderful librarians at the Greater Victoria Public Library have compiled a list of books and videos to help you get even more out of our production of I Think I’m Fallin’: The Songs of Joni Mitchell.

50 Years: The Story of Woodstock Live: Relive the Magic, Artist by Artist by Julien Bitoun (2019)

As the Years Go By…:Conversations with Canada’s Folk, Pop & Rock Pioneers by Mark Kearney (2017)

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation by Sheila Weller (2008)

Into the Mystic: The Visionary and Ecstatic Roots of 1960’s Rock and Roll by Christopher Hill (2017)

Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words by Malka Marom (2014)

Joni Mitchell: The Joni Mitchell Sessions by Norman Seeff (2018)

Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings by Joni Mitchell (2019)

Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology by Barney Hoskyns (2016)

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe (2017)

The Complete Poems and Lyrics by Joni Mitchell (1997)

The Greatest Album Covers of All Time by Barry Miles (2005)

The Music of Joni Mitchell by Lloyd Whitesell (2008)

The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell by James Bennighoff (2010)

Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period by Michelle Mercer (2009)

Albums by Joni Mitchell available at GVPL.

Blue (1971)
Clouds (1969)
Court and Spark (1974)
For the Roses (1972)
Ladies of the Canyon (1970)
Hejira (1976)
Night Ride Home (1991)
Shine (2007)
Song to a Seagull (1968)

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Belfry Librarian – Yaga

Post author By Editorial Team
Post date August 29, 2023

The wonderful librarians at the Greater Victoria Public Library have compiled a list of books and videos to help you get even more out of our production of Yaga.

Initiated: Memoir of a Witch by Amanda Yates Garcia (2019)

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (2010)

Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen (2018)

Bang Bang by Kat Sandler (2019)

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister (2018)

How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America by Lee Child, editor (2021)

Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story by Kim Senklip Harvey (2019)

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (2020)

Sleuth – Gail Bowen on Writing Mysteries by Gail Bowen (2018)

The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore (2022)

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath (2018)

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollée (2017)

Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together by Sam George-Allen (2020)

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph D. (1997)

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Belfry Librarian – Old Stock

Post author By Editorial Team
Post date March 28, 2023

The wonderful librarians at the Greater Victoria Public Library have compiled a list of books and videos to help you get even more out of our production of Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story.

A History of Anti-Semitism in Canada by Ira Robinson (2015)

Europe Against the Jews 1880-1945 by Götz Aly (2020)

Klezmer Festival [CD] by Various Artists (2017)

Momentum [CD] by Kleztory (2020)

Pier 21: A History by Steven Swinghamer (2020)

Pier 21: Listen to my Story by Christine Welldon (2012 – Children’s Book)

Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History by Steven J. Zipperstein (2018)

Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience by Allan Levine (2018)

The Book of Klezmer: The History, The Music, The Folklore by Yale Strom (2002)

The Children’s Republic: A Play About Janusz Korczak by Hannah Moscovitch (2022)

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Belfry Librarian – The Unplugging

Post author By Editorial Team
Post date January 23, 2023

The wonderful librarians at the Greater Victoria Public Library have compiled a list of books and videos to help you get even more out of our production of The Unplugging.