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- The last train to London [sound recording] : a novel / by Clayton, Meg Waite,author.; Lee, John,narrator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.; Blackstone Audio, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by John Lee.In 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss--Hitler's annexation of Austria--as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Kindertransports (Rescue operations); Jews; Jewish children; Jewish refugees;
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- Ant-Man and the Wasp. [videorecording] / by Douglas, Michael,1944-actor.; Harper, William Jackson,1980-actor.; Lee, Stan,1922-2018,creator.; Lilly, Evangeline,1979-actor.; Loveness, Jeff,screenwriter.; Majors, Jonathan,1989-actor.; Murray, Bill,1950 September 21-actor.; Newton, Kathryn,1997-actor.; O'Brian, Katy M.,actor.; Park, Randall,actor.; Peña, Michael,1976-actor.; Pfeiffer, Michelle,1957-actor.; Reed, Peyton,film director.; Rudd, Paul,actor,screenwriter.; Stoll, Corey,1976-actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Marvel Studios,production company.;
Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Pena, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, William Jackson Harper, Katy M. O'Brian, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Bill Murray, Corey Stoll, Randall Park.Scott and Hope, along with Hank and Janet, explore the Quantum Realm, where they interact with bizarre creatures and embark on an adventure that goes beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.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: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Superhero films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Ant-Man (Fictitious character); Wasp (Fictitious character); Pym, Hank (Fictitious character); Quantum theory; Superheroes; Supervillains;
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- Demon Copperhead [text (large print)] : a novel / by Kingsolver, Barbara,author.;
Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Large type books.; Novels.; Opioid abuse; Orphans; Teenage boys;
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- Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all / by Jones, Martha S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha Jones offers a sweeping history of African American women's political lives in America, recounting how they fought for, won, and used the right to the ballot and how they fought against both racism and sexism. From 1830s Boston to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and beyond to Shirley Chisholm, Stacey Abrams, and Kamala Harris, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women who, although in many cases suffragists, were never single-issue activists. She recounts the lives of Maria Stewart, the first American woman to speak about politics before a mixed audience of men and women, African Methodist Episcopal preacher Jarena Lee, Reconstruction-era advocate for female suffrage Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Boston abolitionist, religious leader, and women's club organizer Eliza Ann Gardner, and other hidden figures who were pioneers for both gender and racial equality. Revealing the ways black women remained independent in their ideas and their organization, Jones shows how black women were again and again the American vanguard of women's rights, setting the pace in the quest for justice and collective liberation. In the twenty-first century, black women's power at the polls and in politics is evident. Vanguard reveals that this power is not at all new, but is instead the culmination of two centuries of dramatic struggle"--- Subjects: African American women social reformers; African American women suffragists; African Americans; Women;
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- Bones and all [videorecording] / by Chalamet, Timothée,film producer,actor.; Green, David Gordon,1975-actor.; Guadagnino, Luca,1971-film director,film producer.; Harper, Jessica,actor.; Holland, André,actor.; Horowitz, Jake,actor.; Kajganich, David,1969-screenwriter,film producer.; Melzi d'Eril, Francesco(Motion picture producer),film producer.; Mieli, Lorenzo,film producer.; Morabito, Marco,film producer.; Moratti, Gabriele,film producer.; Park, Theresa,1967-film producer.; Russell, Taylor,1994-actor.; Rylance, Mark,actor.; Sevigny, Chloë,actor.; Spears, Peter,film producer.; Stuhlbarg, Michael,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):DeAngelis, Camille.Bones & all.; 3 Marys Entertainment,production company.; Apartment Pictures,production company.; Cor Cordium (Firm),production company.; Ela Film,production company.; Excelsa,production company.; Frenesy Film (Firm),production company.; Memo Films,production company.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1992- ),presenter.; Per Capita Productions,production company.; Piace (Firm),production company.; Serfis (Firm),production company.; Tenderstories (Firm),production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.; Wise Pictures,production company.;
Director of photography, Arseni Khachaturan ; editor, Marco Costa ; music, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross.Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, Jessica Harper, Jake Horowitz, Mark Rylance.A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It's a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R; strong, bloody and disturbing violent content, language throughout, some sexual content and brief graphic nudity.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format ; Dolby Atmos TrueHD 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1.- Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Road films.; Romance films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Cannibalism; Fathers and daughters; Man-woman relationships;
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- You Are Here A Novel [electronic resource] : by Nicholls, David.aut; Ingleby, Lee.nrt; Leonard, Lydia.nrt; cloudLibrary;
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Housekeeping ""Book We're Most Looking Forward To"" * An Independent Today ""Best Fiction Books to Read"" * A GQ Magazine (UK) ""Best Book of 2024"" * A Harper’s Bazaar (UK) ""Best Novels to Read"" * A Daily Record ""Best Novel"" ""I finished this novel in two breathless sittings, as invested in its outcome as I would be in the happiness of a friend. This is the magic of You Are Here: warm, generous and funny, it invites readers into the world of Marnie and Michael with the promise that everyone is welcome, and that choosing happiness and being courageous in any small way we can is always possible. I loved this book."" — Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time From the internationally bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author of One Day, one of the most enduring love stories of its generation, comes an uplifting and unputdownable love story about second chances. Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she’s battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it’s passing her by. When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they’ve been looking for. Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future . . . if they can survive the journey. A hilarious, hopeful, and heartwarming love story—the novel beloved New York Times bestselling author David Nicholls calls “my funniest book yet”—You Are Here is a bittersweet and hopeful story of first encounters, second chances, and finding the way home.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Contemporary; Humorous;
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