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81) Ask the dust
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Italian author and his Mexican lover Camilla struggle to make it in depression era Los Angeles.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 hr., 12 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hardy Reed is a young stoner working at an amusement park. One day he notices two children sitting alone on a bench. He checks if they're okay and sees injuries on both. When he realizes that nobody else is going to help those two kids, Hardly decides that he has to do what's right. For the first time in his life, Hardly decides to fight for something. He will help those kids.
84) City of sparrows
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company--which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simply serve...
85) Chesapeake blue
Author
Series
Chesapeake Bay saga volume 4
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Jove mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Nora Roberts returns to Chesapeake Bay and her beloved Quinn family for the long-awaited conclusion to the breathtaking drama that began with "Sea Swept, Rising Tides" and "Inner Harbor."
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are...
88) Antwone Fisher
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Antwone Fisher, 25, is a gentle, soft-spoken seaman in the Navy. Unless he feels he's been disrespected--which prompts furious, violent outbursts that put him on the brink of a dishonorable discharge. Ordered to see a psychiatrist, eventually the story of his childhood in a foster home, where he was both beaten and sexually abused, comes out. Dr. Davenport argues that Antwone needs to deal with his past, find his family, and attain closure. For Antwone,...
89) River, Sing Out
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"And through these ages untold, the river did act as the lifeblood of all those things alongside it."
Jonah Hargrove is celebrating his thirteenth birthday by avoiding his abusive father, when a girl named River stumbles into his yard, injured and alone. The teenager has stolen thousands of dollars' worth of meth from her murderous, drug-dealing boyfriend, but lost it somewhere in the Neches River bottoms during her escape. Jonah agrees to help her...
90) Never let me go
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together in the isolated boarding school called Hailsham, with a chilling secret. As children, Kathy is secretly in love with Tommy. Then she sees her best friend Ruth holding Tommy's hand, and is devastated. As adolescents, Tommy and Kathy form a deep connection, only to have Ruth shove them apart with her own romantic demands. As they prepare to leave the school, they learn of their true purpose:...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Manchuria, 1908. A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes involved, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a...
92) Love story
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to build their life together. Relying only on each other, they...
93) The goldfinch
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Central Khmer
Description
Aspiring 20-year old dancer Samnang and his family face the impending demolition of their lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the loss of a close-knit community in the White Building, a historical apartment block. They find their lives suddenly shattered by the news of their home's impending demolition and are forced to face the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.
96) Fight club
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : color, audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground 'fight clubs' forming in every town -- until a sensuous and mysterious woman comes between the two men and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion." -- Back of container.
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Xie Lian has confirmed that the bewitching youth San Lang is actually Hua Cheng, one of the Four Calamities and a supreme ghost despised by all heavenly officials. Still, he has trouble matching the terror of his companion's reputation with the charming, clever, and protective young man he's come to know. When a distress signal leads Xie Lian into Ghost City, a bustling metropolis containing all the horrors and delights of the dead, he sees Hua...
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
467 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Gods should never meddle in the affairs of mortals, but Xie Lan is not one to follow the rules when lives are at risk. He spits in the face of heaven and its laws and descends in a fury to save his country from drought and civil war. Yet this golden child gets a harsh dose of reality when he discovers just how little one individual--even a god--can do to save a crumbling nation. As the people reject and betray him, one young soldier stands by Xie...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inspiring story of a young Armenian's harrowing escape from genocide and of his granddaughter's quest to retrace his steps. Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepan's story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape. Longing for a fuller picture of Stepan's life--and the lost home her family fled--Dawn travels alone to Turkey and...
100) Charming young man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores his sexuality. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The Gentleman's Gide to Vice and Virtue.--
They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious...
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