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A long way down / by Hornby, Nick;

Subjects: Friendship; Suicide;

© c2005., Riverhead Books,

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Just like you / by Hornby, Nick,author.;

What happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected? Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It's not a match anyone one could have predicted. He's of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through. Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person--someone you didn't see coming.

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Divorced women; Intergenerational relations; Man-woman relationships; Middle-aged mothers;

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Funny girl / by Hornby, Nick.;

Includes bibliographical references."From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Humorous stories.; Women comedians;

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Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius / by Hornby, Nick,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely--until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince. Equipped with a fan's admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries--each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose legacy resounded far beyond their own time. When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the iconic album now came with dozens of songs that weren't on the original--Prince was endlessly prolific, recording 102 songs in 1986 alone. In awe, Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? Who else ever worked that way? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist and social critic Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years before Prince began making music. Examining the two artists' personal tragedies, social statuses, boundless productivity, and other parallels, both humorous and haunting, Hornby shows how these two unlikely men from different centuries "lit up the world." In the process, he creates a lively, stimulating rumination on the creativity, flamboyance, discipline, and soul it takes to produce great art"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Prince; Prince.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.;

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A long way down [videorecording] / by Brosnan, Pierce,actor.; Chaumeil, Pascal,director.; Chaumell, Pascal,film director.; Collette, Toni,actor.; Dwyer, Finola,film producer.; Hornby, Nick.Long way down.Videorecording.; Poots, Imogen,1989-actor.; Posey, Amanda,film producer.; Thorne, Jack,writer of screenplay.; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;

Music by Dario Marianelli; edited by Barney Pilling, Chris Gill; director of photography, Ben Davis.Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul, Zara White.Four suicidal strangers find support in the last place they ever expected to in this emotionally charged comedy-drama based on the novel by Nick Hornby. It's New Year's Eve in London, and disgraced television personality Martin (Pierce Brosnan) is about to take a flying leap off of Topper's Tower when he's interrupted by Maureen (Toni Collette), a lonely single mother who's reached the end of her rope. Meanwhile, as the pair realize their suicide plans have overlapped, onto the rooftop dashes Jess (Imogen Poots), a rebellious teen with nothing left to live for. Just when it seems this despairing group can't possibly get any bigger, rocker-turned-pizza delivery driver J.J. (Aaron Paul) shows up with a fresh pie and a death wish. Rather than taking the plunge together, the unlikely foursome decide to put their plans off until Valentine's Day -- sticking together and supporting one another in the interim. Later, as their friendship deepens, their unusual pact stirs a media firestorm.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1 ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen 2.35:1.

Subjects: Hornby, Nick.; Apartment dwellers; Comedy films.; Dysfunctional families; Feature films.; Friendship; New Year; Strangers; Suicidal behavior;

© 2014., Distributed by Mongrel Media,

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Fever Pitch. by Evans, David,film director.; Guard, Bea,actor.; Firth, Colin,actor.; Aird, Holly,actor.; Stott, Ken,actor.; Aikman, Luke,actor.; Strong, Mark,actor.; Pearson, Neil,actor.; Claxton, Richard,actor.; Gemmell, Ruth,actor.; Shout Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Bea Guard, Colin Firth, Holly Aird, Ken Stott, Luke Aikman, Mark Strong, Neil Pearson, Richard Claxton, Ruth GemmellOriginally produced by Shout Studios in 1997.A sports fan's romantic courtship clashes with his obsession with his favorite football team. Based on the book by Nick Hornby.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy.; Romance.; Sports.;

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Juliet, naked [videorecording] / by Apatow, Judd,1967-film producer.; Berger, Albert(Motion picture producer),film producer.; Byrne, Rose,actor.; Hawke, Ethan,1970-actor.; Jenkins, Tamara,1962-screenwriter.; Mendel, Barry,film producer.; O'Dowd, Chris,1980-actor.; Peretz, Evgenia,screenwriter.; Peretz, Jesse,1968-film director.; Soros, Jeffrey,film producer.; Taylor, Jim,1963-screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Hornby, Nick.Juliet, naked.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; Lions Gate Films,publisher.;

Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'dowd.The story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Fans (Persons); Singers; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Man-woman relationships;

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Bootleg stardust : a novel / by Dixon, Glenn,1957-author.;

"Daisy Jones & the Six meets Nick Hornby in this uplit debut novel about a young musician who auditions for a band and is suddenly catapulted into the wild world of rock and roll stardom, where nothing is quite what it seems."

Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Rock musicians; Rock groups; Concert tours; Coming of age; Nineteen seventies;

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Together we will go : a novel / by Straczynski, J. Michael,1954-author.;

"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"--

Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Authors; Strangers; Bus travel; Suicide;

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Funny woman. [videorecording] / by Arterton, Gemma,actor.; Banks, Morwenna,screenwriter.; Everett, Rupert,actor.; Hornby, Nick,screenwriter.; Parker, Oliver,television director.; Schlessinger, Paul,television producer.; Threlfall, David,actor.; Williams, Ross,television producer.; television adaptation of (work):Hornby, Nick.Funny girl.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;

Gemma Arterton, David Threlfall, Rupert Everett, Arsher Ali, Tom Bateman, Matthew Beard, Leo Bill, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Alexa Davies, Rosie Cavaliero, Alistair Petrie, Morwenna Banks."It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara finds herself in unfamiliar territory--an audition for a TV comedy show. Barbara's uncompromising northern wit proves to be the X-factor that the show has been missing. She gets the part and becomes part of a groundbreaking new sitcom. Being a woman in a largely male environment has its own challenges, but as Barbara 'finds her funny' she re-defines the prevailing attitude to funny women--and in the process, reinvents herself." --container.14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television comedies.; Television programs.; Nineteen sixties; Women television personalities; Women; Popular culture;

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