Search:

Results 691 to 700 of 1,408 | « previous |

Everything there is : a novel / by Vassanji, M. G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada's finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a grand unification of forces and a Theory of Everything. A sensitive character, from a small town in undivided India, a family man profoundly influenced by his pious father, Nurul is happily married to Sakina Begum by an arranged marriage. They have three children. But when Nurul travels to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to give a public lecture at Harvard, he falls in love with a graduate student, Hilary Chase. At the same time Nurul Islam's outspoken, philosophical views about the nature of physics and God have earned him the ire of fundamentalist preachers in Pakistan. When approached to contribute to Pakistan's nuclear weapons project, he declines, recalling the catastrophe of India's Partition, thus making enemies of the political and military establishments. Meanwhile, a contingent of physicists begins a smear campaign, claiming that Nurul Islams's contribution to the unification theory was plagiarized from Rosenfeld. All these events link together and converge upon Sakina Begum who, smarting from her husband's betrayal, unwittingly commits a betrayal of her own. Everything that had worked together as though preordained since his childhood to take him to the pinnacle of scientific achievement suddenly falls apart. An intimate and intelligent account of love, honour, guilt and genius, Everything There Is gives us an engaging portrait of a traditional, spiritual man facing the onslaught of inescapable forces."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; College teachers; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Physicists; Revenge;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Blue ruin [videorecording] / by Blair, Macon.; Hargreaves, Amy.; Kolack, Kevin.; Plumb, Eve,1958-; Ratray, Devin,1977-; Saulnier, Jeremy.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Scavenger (Firm);
Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb.A strange outsider's life suddenly changes when he returns to his childhood home to implement an act of vengeance. Proving himself a novice assassin, he ends up in a ruthless fight to protect his estranged family.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen, aspect ratio, 2.40:1 ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Assassins; Feature films.; Outcasts; Revenge; Thrillers (Motion pictures);
© c2014., Distributed by Entertainment One,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The bikeriders [videorecording] / by Butler, Austin,1991-actor.; Cohen, Emory,1990-actor.; Comer, Jodie,1993-actor.; Faist, Mike,actor.; Glusman, Karl,1988-actor.; Green, Sarah(Motion picture producer),film producer.; Hardy, Tom,1977-actor.; Herriman, Damon,1970-actor.; Holbrook, Boyd,1981-actor.; Kavanaugh-Jones, Brian,film producer.; Knapp, Beau,actor.; Milchan, Arnon,1944-film producer.; Nichols, Jeff,1978-film director,screenwriter.; Reedus, Norman,1969-actor.; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.; Wallace, Toby,1996-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Lyon, Danny.Bikeriders.; Focus Features,presenter.; New Regency (Firm),production company.; Regency Enterprises,presenter.; Tri-State Pictures (Firm),production company.; Universal Studios, Inc.,publisher.;
Director of photography, Adam Stone ; film editor, Julie Monroe ; music by David Wingo.Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Damon Herriman, Beau Knapp, Emory Cohen, Karl Glusman, Toby Wallace, Norman Reedus.After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy is inextricably drawn to Benny, the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny. Much like the country around it, the club begins to evolve, transforming from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language throughout, violence, some drug use and brief sexuality.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.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Crime films.; Historical films.; Criminals; Drug addicts; Male friendship; Drug traffic; Man-woman relationships; Motorcycle clubs; Motorcycle gangs; Photographers;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The road from Belhaven / by Livesey, Margot,author.;
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland. Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on her beloved farm. But she does see "pictures" that foretell various incidents and accidents and begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her. Why have the adults around her not revealed that the touch of a hand can change everything? After following Louis to Glasgow, though, she learns the limits of his devotion, and when faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes what turns out to be a terrible mistake. But while Lizzie can't change the past, her second sight may allow her a second chance. Luminous and transporting, The Road from Belhaven once again displays "the marvelous control of a writer who conjures equally well the tangible, sensory world ... and the mysteries, stranger and wilder, that flicker at the border of that world." (The Boston Globe)"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Clairvoyants; Man-woman relationships; Young women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The Flash. [graphic novel] / by Williamson, Joshua,author.; Kolins, Scott,artist.; Guerrero, Luis(Colorist),colourist.; Wands, Steve,letterer.; Sandoval, Rafa,artist.; Tarragona, Jordi,artist.; Morey, Tomeu,artist.;
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Graphic novels.; Science fiction comics.; Superhero comics.; Flash (Fictitious character); Superheroes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Little monsters : a novel / by Brodeur, Adrienne,author.;
"From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets-for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes. Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated-and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings' lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he's determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family-Steph, who doesn't make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit. Set in the fraught summer of 2016, and drawing on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, Little Monsters is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out-its Edenic lushness and its snakes"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Father and child; Secrecy; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Great big beautiful life [text (large print)] / by Henry, Emily,author.;
"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years-or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she'll choose the person who'll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice's head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice-and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She's ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can't swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they're in the same room. And it's becoming abundantly clear that their story-just like the tale Margaret's spinning-could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad ... depending on who's telling it"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Authors; Heiresses; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Recluses; Women authors;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Anne of Manhattan : a novel / by Starler, Brina,author.; adaptation of (work):Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables.;
L. M. Montgomery's classic tale, Anne of Green Gables, gets a romantic, charming, and hilarious modern adaptation, set in New York City. After an idyllic girlhood in Avonlea, Long Island, Anne has packed up her trunk, said goodbye to her foster parents, Marilla and Matthew, and moved to the isle of Manhattan for grad school. Together with her best friend, Diana Barry, she's ready to take on the world and find her voice as a writer. When her long-time archrival Gilbert Blythe shows up at Redmond College for their final year, Anne gets the shock of her life. Gil has been in California for the last five years-since he kissed her during a beach bonfire, and she ghosted him. Now the handsome brunette is flashing his dimples at her like he hasn't a care in the world and she isn't buying it. Paired with the same professor for their thesis, the two former competitors come to a grudging peace that turns into something so much deeper ... and sexier than either intended. But when Gil seemingly betrays her to get ahead, Anne realizes she was right all along-she should never have trusted Gilbert Blythe. While Gil must prove to Anne that they're meant to be together, she must come to terms with her old fears if she wants a happily-ever-after with the boy she's always (secretly) loved.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character); College students; Women college students; Orphans; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Without a brew / by Alexander, Ellie,author.;
"Amateur sleuth Sloan Krause delves into a murderous winter wonderland in another delightful mystery from cozy writer Ellie Alexander, Without a Brew. It's winter in the Bavarian village of Leavenworth, Washington, which for Sloan Krause means lots of layers, pine and citrus-flavored craft beers, and getting the new guest rooms at Nitro, the brewery where she works, into tip top shape before the next weekend's IceFest. Unfortunately, Sloan and her boss Garrett are learning that not every guest in the brewery is up for a hopping good time. While the couple staying with them, Brad and Ali, seem completely smitten, a quartet arrives in the evening demanding rooms and showing off flashy Seattle credentials. Sloan and Garrett are less than impressed, but agree to rent rooms to the quarrelsome quartet. The final guest, Liv, wasn't planning on an overnight stay in Leavenworth, but seems eager to take Sloan up on the offer of sanctuary from the snow-at least before she has a strange run in with local mechanic Taylor, to say nothing of the knowing looks and even physical altercations that take place between Liv and the other guests. Sloan could be imagining things, but when Liv's room is found trashed the next morning, a hateful message painted on her car, and Liv herself is no where to be found, Sloan is convinced another mystery is brewing. And with many of the potential suspects hunkering down under Nitro's roof, she knows her co-workers and friends won't be safe until serves up the killer a hoppy pint of justice"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Microbreweries; Brewers; Women detectives; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

All is lost [videorecording] / by Chandor, J. C.; Redford, Robert.; Lions Gate Films.;
Robert Redford.One man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face.MPAA Rating: PG-13.DVD, widescreen presentation; 5.1 Dolby digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Sailors; Shipwreck survival; Shipwrecks; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Lionsgate,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 691 to 700 of 1,408 | « previous |