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The sleeping car porter / by Mayr, Suzette,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two gay men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; African American gay men; Train attendants;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Thelma [videorecording] / by Margolin, Josh,screenwriter,film director.; Boulware, Hilda,actor.; Gregg, Clark,1962-actor.; Hechinger, Fred,actor.; Kim, Chase,actor.; Posey, Parker,1968-actor.; Roundtree, Richard,1942-2023,actor.; Squibb, June,1929-actor.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, Hilda Boulware, Chase Kim.Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin's own grandmother, THELMA puts a clever spin on movies like MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero. With infectious humor, Margolin employs the familiar tropes of the action genre in hilarious, age-appropriate ways to tackle aging with agency. In the first leading film role of her 70-year career, Squibb portrays the strong-willed Thelma with grit and determination, demonstrating that she is more than capable of taking care of business despite what her daughter Gail, son-in-law Alan, or grandson Danny might believe.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Older women; Revenge; Fraud; False personation; Swindlers and swindling;
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Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The porcelain maker / by Freethy, Sarah,author.;
"Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau where only his talent at making exquisite porcelain figures stands between him and seemingly certain death. Desperate to save her lover, Bettina risks everything to rescue him and escape Germany. America, 1993. Clara, Bettina's daughter, embarks on a journey to trace her roots and determine the identity of her father, a secret her mother has kept from her for reasons she's never understood. Clara's quest to piece together the puzzle of her origins transports us back in time to the darkness of Nazi Germany, where life is lived on a razor's edge and deception and death lurk around every corner. Survival depends on strength, loyalty, and knowing true friend from hidden foe. And as Clara digs further, she begins to question why her mother was so determined to leave the truth of her harrowing past behind."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Epic fiction.; Novels.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish families; Jews; Man-woman relationships; Nazis;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The stolen hours / by Swan, Karen(Writer),author.;
It's the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it clear he can't support her past the coming winter. On the small, Scottish island of St Kilda, her options are limited. But the MacKinnons' neighbour, Donald, has a business acquaintance on distant Harris also in need of a spouse. A plan is hatched for Donald to chaperone Mhairi and make the introduction on his final crossing of the year, before the autumn seas close them off to the outside world. Mhairi returns as an engaged woman who has lost her heart - but not to her fiancé. In love with the wrong man yet knowing he can never be hers, she awaits the spring with growing dread, for the onset of calm waters will see her sent from home to become a stranger's wife. When word comes that St Kilda is to be evacuated, the lovers are granted a few months' reprieve, enjoying a summer of stolen hours together. Only, those last days on St Kilda will also bring trauma and heartache for Mhairi and her friends, Effie and Flora. And when a dead body is later found on the abandoned isle, all three have reason enough to find themselves under the shadow of suspicion.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Betrothal; Evacuation of civilians; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ballykissangel. [videorecording] / by Boyd, Dermot.; Doyle, Tony,1942-2000.; Forte, John.; Griffin, Chris.; Hanly, Peter.; Harrison, Paul.; Kellegher, Tina.; Kirwan, Dervia.; Toibin, Niall,1929-; Tompkinson, Stephen.; BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Ltd.; Ballykea (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm); World Productions (Firm : London, England);
As happy as a turkey on Boxing Day -- When a child is born -- Changing times -- Stardust in your eyes -- Fortune in Men's eyes -- I know when I'm not wanted -- Personal call -- Lost sheep -- Waiting game -- Pack up your troubles -- Reckoning -- Amongst friends.Stephen Tompkinson, Dervia Kirwan, Tony Doyle, Niall Toibin, Tina Kellegher, and Peter Hanly.Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Peter Clifford struggles to save his parishioners' souls without falling himself ... for the local barkeep, Assumpta Fitzgerald.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Ballykissangel (Ireland : Imaginary Place); Catholic Church; Priests; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Love the Coopers [videorecording] / by Arkin, Alan,actor.; Goodman, John,1952-actor.; Helms, Ed,actor.; Keaton, Diane,actor.; Lacy, Jake,actor.; London, Michael,film producer.; Mackie, Anthony,1978-actor.; Nelson, Jessie,film producer,film director.; Rogers, Steven,1965-screenwriter.; Seyfried, Amanda,actor.; Squibb, June,1929-actor.; Tomei, Marisa,actor.; Wilde, Olivia,actor.; Williams, Janice,film producer.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),publisher.; Groundswell Productions,production company.; Imagine Entertainment (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Elliot Davis ; music, Nick Urata ; editor, Nancy Richardson.Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Ed Helms, Jake Lacy, Anthony Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Marisa Tomei, Olivia Wilde.It follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Christmas plays.; Comedy films.; Families; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine / by Applebaum, Anne,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization -- in effect a second Russian revolution -- which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people perished between 1931 and 1933 in the U.S.S.R. In Red famine, Anne Applebaum reveals for the first time that three million of them died not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy, but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: that Stalin set out to exterminate a vast swath of the Ukrainian population and replace them with more cooperative, Russian-speaking peasants. A peaceful Ukraine would provide the Soviets with a safe buffer between itself and Europe, and would be a bread basket region to feed Soviet cities and factory workers. When the province rebelled against collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures. Starving, people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil"--
Subjects: Collective farms; Collectivization of agriculture; Famines; Genocide; Mass murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Rear window [videorecording (DVD)] by Ritter, Thelm; Burr, Raymond,1917-1993; Corey, Wendell,1914-196; Woolrich, Cornell,1903-196; Hitchcock, Alfred,1899-198; Hayes, John Michael,1919; Grace,Princess of Monaco,1929-198; Stewart, James,1908-199; Corey, Wendell,1914-1968; Ritter, Thelma; Waxman, Franz,1906-1967;
Director of photography, Robert Burks; art direction, J. McMillan Johnson and Hal Pereira; editor, George Tomasini; music, Franz Waxman.James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.Stewart, a photographer with a broken leg, takes up spying and suspects that his neighbor has murdered his invalid wife and buried her in the flower gardenMPAA rating: PGNTSC 1
Subjects: Voyeurism; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.); Suspense in motion pictures; Video recordings for the hearing impaire; Murder; Detective and mystery film;
© 2001., Universal Pictures,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Soul [videorecording] / by Ayoade, Richard,1977-voice actor.; Bassett, Angela,voice actor.; Braga, Alice,voice actor.; Diggs, Daveed,voice actor.; Feimster, Fortune,voice actor.; Fey, Tina,1970-voice actor.; Foxx, Jamie,voice actor.; Norton, Graham,1963-voice actor.; Powers, Kemp,voice actor.; Rashad, Phylicia,1948-voice actor.; Squibb, June,1929-voice actor.; Studi, Wes,voice actor.; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Angela Bassett, Daveed Diggs, Wes Studi, Fortune Feimster, June Squibb.Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover the answers to the most important questions.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.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.; Comedy films.; Children's films.; Animated films.; Music teachers; Jazz musicians; Future life; Intermediate state; Soul;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Ballykissangel. [videorecording] / by Blackburn, Stuart.; Coates, Paul.; Cocker, Mike.; Cranitch, Lorcan,1959-; Croghan, Declan.; Donnelly, Deirdre.; Doyle, Tony,1942-2000.; Duane, Paul.; Farrell, Colin,1976-; Gannon, Ted.; Hodgkinson, Terry.; Holloway, Mark.; Kellegher, Tina.; Lydon, Peter.; Martin, Mick.; Massey, Simon.; McEnery, Kate.; Prendiville, Kieran.; Smurfit, Victoria,1974-; Toibin, Niall,1929-; Whelan, Gary.; Wycherley, Don.; 2 Entertain Video (Firm); BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Ltd.; Ballykea (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm); World Productions (Firm : London, England);
Two flew over the cuckoo's nest -- Hello and farewell -- Catch of the day -- Moving out -- Eureka -- Behind bars -- Brendan's crossing -- A few more dollars -- The outsiders -- With a song in my heart -- Love labors -- Arrivals and departures.Tony Doyle, Lorcan Cranitch, Don Wycherley, Victoria Smurfit, Colin Farrell, Kate McEnery, Tina Kellegher, Niall Tobin, Gary Whelan, Deirdre Donnelly.Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Aiden O'Connell finds himself not only dealing with a new romance for Niamh and Orla and a new garda for Bally K, but some troubles of his own as well.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Catholic Church; Cities and towns; Man-woman relationships; Mountain life; Priests; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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