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Fast color [videorecording] / by Denham, Christopher,actor.; Hart, Julia(Filmmaker),screenwriter,film director.; Horowitz, Jordan,1980-film producer,screenwriter.; Liddell, Mickey,film producer.; Mbatha-Raw, Gugu,1983-actor.; Shilaimon, Pete,film producer.; Sidney, Saniyya,actor.; Strathairn, David,actor.; Toussaint, Lorraine,1960-actor.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Strathairn, Lorraine Toussaint, Saniyya Sidney, Christopher Denham.Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman with supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago. There, while being pursued by the local Sheriff, she begins to mend the broken relationships with her mother and daughter.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Dysfunctional families; Mothers and daughters; Supernatural;
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This country is no longer yours : a novel / by Jain Chatlani, Avik,author.;
"In Avik Jain Chatlani's This Country Is No Longer Yours, a chorus of disparate voices comes together to explore how idealists and opportunists betray ordinary people in war-torn Peru. One of our dead writers liked to say, "Peru is a beggar sleeping on a bench made of gold." It's a cute phrase, but it's not really true. There's hardly any gold left, and none of us get much sleep. Based on real events in 1970s-2000s Peru, This Country Is No Longer Yours tells the story of people living through the terrorist campaign of the Maoist Shining Path, while struggling to survive amid economic crisis and state collapse. A student of the revolution's leader is dispatched to Cambodia to learn from the Khmer Rouge, sending him spiralling into a world of unfathomable political violence that both inspires him and will be his undoing. Then, as the terror spreads across Peru, a ruthless security agent of the newly-elected neoconservative government works to squash the growing insurgency now threatening the halls of power, while applying his surveillance training to romantic pursuits--with chilling results. When the war is over, a journalist committed to exposing a brewing nationalist counter-revolution is too preoccupied to help a reader desperately pleading for help outing a sexual predator, who is seeking the presidency. And, in the country that remains, two former guerrillas meet again, one now a teacher stuck in the past, the other living on the margins and still fighting for her future. Depicting a place and time ravaged by terror but alive with new ambitions and enduring love, Jain Chatlani explores the intersection of political breakdown and human endurance, as well as the unbearable choices demanded of those living in a society at war with itself. With incisive and haunting prose, combined with deeply personal insight, Jain Chatlani offers a stinging indictment of the ideologies that brutalize the very people they claim to represent, and relays an urgent warning about the dangers of zealotry, political messianism and acts of violence justified in the name of a cause."--
Subjects: Political fiction.; Novels.; Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group); Journalists; Violence;
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Love and ruin / by McLain, Paula,author.;
"The internationally bestselling author of The Paris wife returns to the timeless subject of Ernest Hemingway in this story of his passionate, volatile third marriage to Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious, fiercely independent, beautiful blonde who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. In 1937, nervous but determined to succeed, Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also finds herself unexpectedly -- and uncontrollably -- falling in love with Ernest Hemingway, a man already on his way to becoming a legend. In the shadow of the impending Second World War, and set against the tumultuous backdrops of Madrid, Finland, China, Key West and especially Cuba, where Martha and Ernest made their home, their relationship and professional careers ignite. But when Ernest publishes the biggest literary success of his career, For whom the bell tolls, they are no longer equals, and Martha must make a choice: surrender to the suffocating demands of a domestic lifestyle, or risk losing her husband by forging a path as her own woman and writer. It is a dilemma that will force her to break his heart, or her own"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961; Gelhourn, Martha, 1908-1998; Women journalists; Women;
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls A Novel [electronic resource] : by Murakami, Haruki.aut; Gabriel, Philip.; cloudLibrary;
"Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Magical Realism; Contemporary;
© 2024., Doubleday Canada,
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Thor. [videorecording] / by Blanchett, Cate,1969-actor.; Feige, Kevin,film producer.; Hemsworth, Chris,actor.; Hiddleston, Tom,actor.; Pearson, Eric,screenwriter.; Waititi, Taika,film director.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Marvel Studios,publisher.;
Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch.Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action and brief suggestive material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Thor (Norse deity); Hulk (Fictitious character); Adventure and adventurers; Mythology, Norse;
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The Green Knight [videorecording] / by Edgerton, Joel,1974-actor.; Halbrooks, Toby,film producer.; Harris, Sean,1966-actor.; Headington, Tim,film producer.; Johnston, James M.(Filmmaker),film producer.; Lowery, David,film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Page, Theresa Steele,film producer.; Patel, Dev,1990-actor.; Vikander, Alicia,1988-actor.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Sarita Choudhury, Kate Dickie, Erin Kellyman, Ralph Ineson, Anthony Morris.A fantasy adventure based on the Arthurian legend, the film tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's headstrong nephew, who embarks on a quest to confront the eponymous knight, a gigantic tree-like creature.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence, some sexuality and graphic nudity.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Gawain (Legendary character); Green Knight (Arthurian legendary character); Knights and knighthood; Quests (Expeditions);
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Dinosaurs : a novel / by Millet, Lydia,1968-author.;
"A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil's unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins-what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies. Dinosaurs is both sharp-edged and tender, an emotionally moving, intellectually resonant novel that asks: In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Friendship; Neighbors; Walking;
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Prey [videorecording] / by Aison, Patrick,screenwriter.; Davis, John,film producer.; Ewing, Marty P.,film producer.; Mathias, Stefany,actor.; Midthunder, Amber,actor.; Myers, Jhane,film producer.; Thrush, Michelle,actor.; Trachtenberg, Dan,film director,screenwriter.; 20th Century Studios,production company.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Amber Midthunder, Michelle Thrush, Stefany Mathias, Mike Paterson, Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp, Julian Antelope, Dane Diliegro.The epic Predator legacy continues with this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation. When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence.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: Science fiction films.; Action and adventure films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Predation (Biology); Comanche;
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Ali & Ava [videorecording] / by Akhtar, Adeel,actor.; Barnard, Clio,film director,screenwriter.; Rushbrook, Claire,actor.; Greenwich Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,film distributor.;
Claire Rushbrook, Adeel Akhtar.Sparks fly as two people develop a deep connection despite the lingering legacy of past relationships. A compelling love story enveloped in music and imbued with humor.PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.BAFTA nominee for Best British Film
Subjects: Feature films.; Romance films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Loneliness; Man-woman relationships;
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Sunrise Highway [sound recording] / by Blauner, Peter,author.; Fliakos, Ari,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Ari Fliakos."From Peter Blauner, the writer Dennis Lehane calls "one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature," comes a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her, but to make her pay. In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Women detectives; Murder;
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