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The man who invented Christmas [videorecording] / by Coyne, Susan,screenwriter.; Fichman, Niv,film producer.; Jean, Vadim,1963-film producer.; Nalluri, Bharat,film director.; Plummer, Christopher,actor.; Pryce, Jonathan,actor.; Stevens, Dan,1982-actor.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
Music by Mychael Danna ; editors, Stephen O'Connell, Jamie Pearson; cinematography by Ben Smithard.Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce.In 1843, the celebrated British novelist, Charles Dickens, is at a low point in his career with three flops behind him and his family expenses piling up at home. Determined to recover, Dickens decides to write a Christmas story and self-publish it in less than two months. As Dickens labors writing on such short notice, his estranged father and mother come to bunk with him. Still haunted by painful memories of his father ruining his childhood by his financial irresponsibly, Dickens develops a writer's block which seems to have no solution. As such, Dickens must face his personal demons epitomized through his characters, especially in his imagined conversations with Ebenezer Scrooge. Now with a looming deadline, Dickens struggles for inspiration against his frustrations and his characters' opinions in a literary challenge creating a classic tale that would define the essential soul of modern Christmas.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some mild language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Christmas films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Christmas;
For private home use only.
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Code noir : by Lubrin, Canisia,1984-author.;
"Eagerly awaited debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired young writers. A daring and inventive reimagining of the infamous set of laws, the "Code Noir," that once governed Black lives. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art: a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple and ingenious: it is modeled on the infamous real-life "Code Noir," a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. In other words, the Code that contained and restricted the activities of Black people in the Caribbean. The original Code had fifty-nine articles; Code Noir has fifty-nine short, linked fictions that present vivid, unforgettable, multi-layered fragments of Black life as it really existed and still exists, winding in and around, over and under the official decrees, refusing to be contained or "ruled." Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from fantasy to historical fiction, this loosely linked stream of 59 irrepressible stories comments on, underscores, undermines, mocks, breaks and redefines the Code's intent. An original, timely, culturally daring, virtuoso performance by a rising literary star."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Short stories.; African Americans;
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The amazing Spider-Man. [graphic novel] / by Spencer, Nick,author.; Caramagna, Joe,letterer.;
Marvel, T.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Science fiction comics.; Spider-Man (Fictitious character); Superheroes;
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Green Lantern. by Castellucci, Cecil,1969-; Vecchio, Luciano.; Brizuela, Dario.; Baltazar, Art.; Cohen, Ivan.; Franco.;
Subjects: Green Lantern Corps (Fictitious characters); Green Lantern (Fictitious character); Science fiction comic books, strips, etc., American.; Superhero comic books, strips, etc., American.; Superheroes; Graphic novels;
© 2013., DC Comics,
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Superman. [graphic novel] / by Gleason, Patrick,author,artist.; Tomasi, Peter,author.; Godlewski, Scott,illustrator.; Downer, Stephen(Comic book artist),illustrator.; Quintana, Wil,colourist.; Eltaeb, Gabe,colourist.; Sanchez, Alejandro,1985-colourist.; Leigh, Rob,letterer.; Napolitano, Tom,letterer.;
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Science fiction.; Superman (Fictitious character); Superheroes;
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X-Men, Gold. [graphic novel] / by Guggenheim, Marc,author.; Martin, Frank,illustrator.; Lashley, Ken,illustrator.;
T+.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Science fiction comics.; Superhero comics.; X-Men (Fictitious characters); Superheroes; Good and evil;
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The witch elm / by French, Tana,author.;
"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, when we no longer know who we are"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Victims of violent crimes;
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Binge : 60 stories to make your brain feel different / by Coupland, Douglas,author.;
"The first new work of fiction since 2013, from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every moment of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X: Tales for an Accelarated Culture, he is back with Binge, 61 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way people write about themselves and their experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Short stories.;
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Warm bodies [videorecording] / by Corddry, Rob.; Franco, Dave.; Hoult, Nicholas,1989-; Levine, Jonathan.; Malkovich, John.; Marion, Isaac,1981-Warm bodies.Videorecording.; Palmer, Teresa,1986-; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Summit Entertainment.;
Music by Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders ; cinematography Javier Aguirresarobe ; edited by Nancy Richardson.John Malkovich, Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco.After a zombie epidemic, R (a zombie) rescues Julie (a human survivor) from a zombie attack. The two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human, setting off a chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 5.1, NTSC.
Subjects: Marion, Isaac, 1981-; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Zombie films.; Zombies;
© c2013., Summit Entertainment ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Justice League. [graphic novel] / by Snyder, Scott,author.; Tynion, James,IV,author.; Cheung, Jim,illustrator.; Morey, Tomeu,colourist.; Napolitano, Tom,letterer.;
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Superhero comics.; Graphic novels.; Superman (Fictitious character); Wonder Woman (Fictitious character); Batman (Fictitious character); Aquaman (Fictitious character); Justice League of America (Fictitious characters); Superheroes;
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