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Cloud cuckoo land [sound recording] : a novel / by Doerr, Anthony,1973-author.; Ireland, Marin,narrator.; Jones, Simon,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Marin Ireland, Simon Jones."From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers-another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world-or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is about the power of story and the astonishing survival of the physical book when for thousands of years they were so rare and so feared, dying, as one character says, "in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants." It is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Dystopian fiction.; Future, The; Libraries; Space;
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The power couple [sound recording] / by Berenson, Alex,author.; Weber, Steven,narrator.; Ireland, Marin,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Steven Weber and Marin Ireland."When their college-aged daughter is abducted on a European family vacation, Brian and Rebecca Unsworth--both U.S. intelligence staffers--race to find the kidnappers and keep their fragile marriage intact"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Spy fiction.; Kidnapping; Spouses;
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The Lincoln Highway [sound recording] / by Towles, Amor,author.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, Dion Graham."The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Brothers; Escaped prisoners; Ex-convicts;
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Eileen [videorecording] / by Azpiazu, Stefanie,1975-film producer.; Bregman, Anthony,film producer.; Cron, Peter,film producer.; Goebel, Luke B.,1980-screenwriter,film producer.; Hathaway, Anne,1982-actor.; Ireland, Marin,actor.; McKenzie, Thomasin,2000-actor.; Moshfegh, Ottessa,screenwriter,film producer.; Oldroyd, William,1979-film director,film producer.; Teague, Owen,1998-actor.; Whigham, Shea,1969-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Moshfegh, Ottessa.Eileen.; Decal (Firm),film distributor.; Fifth Season (Firm),presenter.; FilmFour (Firm),presenter.; Likely Story (Firm),production company.; Neon (Firm),publisher.; Omniscient Films,production company.;
Director of photography, Ari Wegner ; editor, Nick Emerson ; music by Richard Reed Parry.Thomasin McKenzie, Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland, Owen Teague, Anne Hathaway.In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violent content, sexual content and language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Crime films.; Feature films.; Psychological films.; Nineteen sixties; Prisons; Female friendship; Prisons; Man-woman relationships;
For private home use only.
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Future weather [videorecording] / by Deller, Jenny.; Fairweather, Kristin.; Haney-Jardine, Perla,1997-; Ireland, Marin.; Jain, Anubhav.; Madigan, Amy.; Sadler, William,1950-; Taylor, Lili.; Lipstick Pictures (Firm); Virgil Films (Firm);
Editor, Shelby Siegel ; director of photography, Zak Mulligan ; music, Erik Friedlander.Amy Madigan, William Sadler, Perla Haney-Jardine, Lily Taylor, Marin Ireland, Anubhav Jain.Lauduree is a 13-year-old loner, passionate about nature and obsessed with ecological disaster. Greta, her grandmother, is a nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom, she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures.PG.DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation.
Subjects: Abandoned children; Coming-of-age films.; Environmentalists; Feature films.; Grandparent and child; Grandparents as parents;
© c2013., Virgil Films,
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The boogeyman [videorecording] / by Beck, Scott,1984-screenwriter.; Blair, Vivien Lyra,actor.; Born, Eli,director of photography.; Cohen, Dan(Producer),film producer.; Dastmalchian, David,actor.; Gvozdas, Peter,1974-editor of moving image work.; Heyman, Mark,1979-screenwriter.; Hu, Madison,actor.; Ireland, Marin,actor.; Jonsson, Patrick,composer.; Levine, Dan(Film producer),film producer.; Levy, Shawn,1968-film producer.; Messina, Chris,actor.; Nichols, Maddie,actor.; Savage, Robert M.(Robert Michael),film director.; Thatcher, Sophie,actor.; Woods, Bryan,1984-screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work):King, Stephen,1947-Boogeyman.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Director of photography, Eli Born ; music, Patrick Jonsson ; editor, Peter Gvozdas.Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland, Madison Hu, Maddie Nichols.Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13, terror, violent content, teen drug use, strong language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Monster films.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Families; Sisters; Monsters; Mothers; Psychiatrists; Supernatural; Suicide;
For private home use only.
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The silence [sound recording] : a novel / by DeLillo, Don,author.; Anderson, Laurie,1947-narrator.; Bobb, Jeremy,narrator.; Ireland, Marin,narrator.; Miles, Robin,narrator.; Sanders, Jay O.,1953-narrator.; Stuhlbarg, Michael,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Laurie Anderson, Jeremy Bobb, Marin Ireland, Robin Miles, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Stuhlbarg."Five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment in 2022 react to a mysterious, catastrophic event that severs all of modern life's digital connections in this new novel from the National Book Award-winning author of White Noise"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Digital communications; Disasters; Electric power failures;
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Flags on the bayou [sound recording] : a novel / by Burke, James Lee,1936-author.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by James Lee Burke, MacLeod Andrews, Michael Crouch, Dana Gourrier, Marin Ireland, January LaVoy, Ray Porter."In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed --and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah."--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Civil war; Enslaved persons; Fugitive slaves; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Slavery;
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The miseducation of Cameron Post [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Moretz, Chloe Grace; Gallagher Jr., John; Ehle, Jennifer; Lane, Sasha; Goodluck, Forrest; Ireland, Marin; Campbell, Owen; Butler, Kerry;
Chloe Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck, Marin Ireland, Owen Campbell, Kerry Butler.Director, Desiree Akhavan.Blu-ray.OFRB rating: 14A.In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
Subjects: Drama.; Drama.;
© 2019., Filmrise,
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The Yank : the true story of a former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army / by Crawley, John,author.;
"1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible - then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict ... The Irish "Troubles" were at a murderous fever pitch when John Crawley volunteered for the IRA. Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, the bombing of the British Houses of Parliament, and other deadly incidents had recently unfolded or were about to ... Civilian casualties were common as British soldiers, Republican militants (who wanted the UK out of Northern Ireland) and Unionist police and militants (who wanted to remain in the UK), engaged in gun battles and car bombing throughout Northern Ireland. The death toll numbered over 1,000. The IRA split over how to react between the old-line IRA, and the new Provisional IRA - the Provos, mostly impassioned young men who were not hesitant to resort to violence. In a powerful, brutally honest, no-holds-barred recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned munitions and demolitions skills to use back in Ireland in service of the Provos. It is a story that will see him running guns with notorious American mobster - and secret IRA fundraiser - Whitey Bulger; running, under cover of night, from safe house to safe house in the Irish countryside, one step ahead of British troops; being captured, imprisoned, and being part of a mass escape attempt; fending off a recruitment offer from the CIA; and being one of the masterminds behind a campaign to take out London's electrical system. Along the way, Crawley is blisteringly candid about the memorable people he worked with, including behind-the-scenes portrayals of revered IRA leader Martin McGuinness, and of the psychopathic Whitey Bulger, as well as others in the Boston IRA support network. There are vivid portraits of colleagues and enemies, and Crawley is unflinching in his commentary on IRA leadership and their tactics, both military and political. Through it all comes the steadfast voice of a man on a mission, providing an evocative, detailed, and passionate recounting of where that mission led him and why - as well as why, to this day, he remains ready to serve"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Crawley, John,.; United States. Marine Corps; Irish Republican Army; Illegal arms transfers; Marines; Revolutionaries; Terrorists;
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