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The slowworm's song / by Miller, Andrew,1961-author.;
An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons--to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his life; a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time. But time is running out, and the day comes when he must face again what happened in that faraway summer of 1982.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Fathers and daughters; Letters; Recovering alcoholics; Veterans;
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The Beastmaster. by Coscarelli, Don,film director.; Amos, John,actor.; Singer, Marc,actor.; Torn, Rip,actor.; Roberts, Tanya,actor.; Shout Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
John Amos, Marc Singer, Rip Torn, Tanya RobertsOriginally produced by Shout Studios in 1982.A sword-and-sorcery fantasy about a young man's search for revenge. Armed with supernatural powers, the handsome hero and his animal allies wage war against marauding forces.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; War films.; Science fiction.; Cult films.; Action and adventure films.; Animals.; Action films.; Fantasy films.; Monsters in motion pictures.;
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We don't know ourselves : a personal history of modern Ireland / by O'Toole, Fintan,1958-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government?in despair, because all the young people were leaving?opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't Know Ourselves, O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society-perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, O'Toole served as an altar boy and attended a Christian Brothers school, much as his forebears did. He was enthralled by American Westerns suddenly appearing on Irish television, which were not that far from his own experience, given that Ireland's main export was beef and it was still not unknown for herds of cattle to clatter down Dublin's streets. Yet the Westerns were a sign of what was to come. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish, women in particular. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism. In O'Toole's telling, America became a lodestar, from John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit, when the soon-to-be martyred American president was welcomed as a native son, to the emergence of the Irish technology sector in the late 1990s, driven by American corporations, which set Ireland on the path toward particular disaster during the 2008 financial crisis. A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O'Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of "deliberate unknowing," which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don't Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-;
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The first date prophecy / by Tamberelli, Kateauthor.; Tamberelli, Danny,1982-author.;
"Aspiring writer Lucy Minninger has no trouble putting the comedy in her rom-coms. It's the romance part of the equation that's the problem. Rudy Riziero made his mark on some of the most popular kids shows of the ՚90s. But ... he's actually ready for a relationship, if he could just find someone uninterested in who he used to be. When Lucy and Rudy match online, they're eager to meet. But after their first date ends in a psychic's prophecy that is equal parts great fortune and certain doom, their flirty quips end and their search for answers to some of life's big questions begins"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Dating (Social customs); Man-woman relationships; Psychics;
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Blade runner 2049 [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Armas, Ana de,1988-actor.; Fancher, Hampton,screenwriter.; Ford, Harrison,1942-actor.; Gosling, Ryan,1980-actor.; Green, Michael J.,screenwriter.; Villeneuve, Denis,1967-film director.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;
Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright.This sequel to Ridley Scott's landmark 1982 science-fiction film picks up the story 30 years later, giving viewers another detailed look at a future in which humanity live in polluted, overcrowded cities and rely on androids known as "replicants" for slave labor. In 2049 Los Angeles, K (Ryan Gosling) works as a "blade runner," a specialized law-enforcement agent dedicated to tracking down and killing rogue replicants. But when he uncovers a shocking conspiracy involving the robot laborers, he searches for the one person who might have answers: a former blade runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who vanished decades earlier.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos True HD, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Dystopian films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department; Artificial intelligence; Missing persons; Androids; Human-robot interaction;
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Life : my story through history / by Francis,Pope,1936-author.; Botsford, Aubrey,translator.; Marchese Ragona, Fabio,1982-author.; translation of:Francis,Pope,1936-Life: la mia storia nella storia.English.;
Includes bibliographical references.For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history-from his earliest years during the outbreak of WWII to the turmoil of today. Turning the pages of the precious book that is life, Pope Francis leads us along a path made of emotions, joys, and agonies: a window on the past that will allow us to better understand our present.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Francis, Pope, 1936-; Catholic Church. Pope (2013- : Francis); Popes;
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Sense & sensibility [videorecording] / by Alexander, John,television director.; Austen, Jane,1775-1817.Sense and sensibility.; Bonneville, Hugh,actor.; Cooper, Dominic,1978-actor.; Davies, Andrew,1936-screenwriter.; Edmondson, Adrian,1957-actor.; Hiddleston, Tom,actor.; Hughes, Gwyneth,screenwriter.; Huston, Jack,1982-actor.; Laurenson, Jamie,television producer,actor.; Law, Phyllida,1932-actor.; Lovering, Jeremy,actor.; McTeer, Janet,actor.; Morahan, Hattie,1978-actor.; Morrissey, David,actor.; Pivcevic, Anne,television producer.; Poots, Imogen,1989-actor.; Scacchi, Greta,actor.; Skinner, Claire,actor.; Stevens, Dan,1982-actor.; Wakefield, Charity,1981-actor.; Williams, Mark,1959-actor.; Williams, Olivia,1968-actor.; 2 Entertain Video (Firm),production company.; BBC Video (Firm),production company.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc,production company.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.;
Miss Austen regrets: music, Jennie Muskett ; editor, Luke Dunkley ; director of photography, David Katznelson.Sense & sensibility: music, Martin Phipps ; editor, Roy Sharman ; director of photography, Sean Bobbitt.Miss Austen regrets: Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Hugh Bonneville, Phyllida Law, Jack Huston, Adrian Edmondson, Tom Hiddleston, Greta Scacchi.Sense & sensibility: David Morrissey, Janet McTeer, Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper, Mark Williams, Claire Skinner.Originally broadcast in 2008.Miss Austen regrets: Approaching her fortieth birthday, Jane Austen appears happily unmarried. When asked by her young niece Fanny to help her vet potential husbands, Jane's confident composure is threatened as she finds herself looking back on her own potential suitors and the choices she has made. Based on the life and letters of Jane Austen.Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9 enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., DVD9, NTSC.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Historical television programs.; Made-for-TV movies.; Romance television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Authors; Inheritance and succession; Man-woman relationships; Sisters; Social classes; Young women;
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Homes : a refugee story / by al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr,2001-author.; Yeung, Winnie,1982-author.;
"Homes tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's immigration experience."--
Subjects: Biographies.; al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr, 2001-; Refugee children; Refugee children;
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The cobbler [videorecording] / by Barkin, Ellen,1954-actor.; Buscemi, Steve,1958-actor.; Hoffman, Dustin,1937-actor.; McCarthy, Tom,1966-director,screenwriter.; Sandler, Adam,actor.; Stevens, Dan,1982-actor.;
Adam Sandler, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi, Dustin Hoffman, Ellen Barkin.A bored cobbler finds a magical object that allows him to see the world in a new way.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Magic; Shoemakers; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Q: The Winged Serpent. by Cohen, Larry,film director.; Clark, Candy,actor.; Carradine, David,actor.; Dixon, James,actor.; Moriarty, Michael,actor.; Roundtree, Richard,actor.; Shout Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Candy Clark, David Carradine, James Dixon, Michael Moriarty, Richard RoundtreeOriginally produced by Shout Studios in 1982.Its name is Quetzalcoatl, a dragon-like Aztec god that is summoned to modern-day Manhattan by a mysterious cult. But just call it "Q" because that is all you'll be able to say before it tears you apart!Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Science fiction.; Independent films.; Cult films.; Fantasy fiction.;
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