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- The help [videorecording] / by Barnathan, Michael.; Chastain, Jessica.; Columbus, Chris.; Davis, Viola.; Goldblatt, Stephen,1945-; Green, Brunson.; Howard, Bryce Dallas,1981-; Janney, Allison.; Newman, Thomas,1955-; Spacek, Sissy.; Spencer, Octavia.; Stockett, Kathryn.Help.Videorecording.; Stone, Emma,1988-; Taylor, Tate.; Tyson, Cicely.; Vogel, Mike.; Winborne, Hughes.; 1492 Pictures.; Dreamworks Pictures.; Harbinger Pictures.; Imagenation Abu Dhabi (Firm); Participant Media.; Reliance Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm);
- Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Thomas Newman.Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney.Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray ; widescreen presentation (1.85:1) ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; region 1.
- Subjects: Stockett, Kathryn.; African American women household employees; African American women; Civil rights movements; Feature films.; Female friendship; Housekeepers;
- © c2011., Touchstone Home Entertainment,
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- The darkest part of the forest / by Black, Holly.;
- In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king.LSC
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Love stories.; Fairies; Magic;
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- A quiet, little town / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
- It starts with an unusual request: "On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women." No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare to what's waiting for them at Fredericksburg. In this quiet little town, every man, woman, and monk will reveal their true colors. Green for greed. Yellow for cowardice. Black for pure unadulterated evil. Which leaves Red-gunning for his life...
- Subjects: Western fiction.; Stagecoaches; Murderers;
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- Black star / by Alexander, Kwame.;
- 12-year old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Lee's Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South. Even so, Nana Kofi's thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so many more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn't old enough to know about certain things like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge and why she can never play on the brand-new real deal baseball field on the other side of town. When Charley challenges a neighborhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field, she makes a fateful decision. A child cannot protect herself if she does not know her history, and Charley's choice brings consequences she never could have imagined.
- Subjects: Novels in verse.; Historical fiction.; Baseball; African Americans; Race relations;
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- Black water : family, legacy, and blood memory / by Robertson, David,1977-author.;
- "David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas, or Don as he became known, had grown up on the trapline in the bush only to be transplanted permanently to a house on reserve in Manitoba, where he was not permitted to speak his language--Swampy Cree--and was forced to learn and speak only English while in day school, unless in secret in the forest with his friends. Robertson's mother, Beverly Eyers, grew up in a small town in Manitoba, a town with no Indigenous families, until Don came to town as a United Church minister and fell in love with her. Robertson's parents made the decision to raise their children, in his words, "separate from his Indigenous identity." He grew up without his father's teachings or knowledge of his life or experiences. All he had left was blood memory, the pieces of who he was engrained in the fabric of his DNA. Pieces that he has spent a lifetime putting together. Black Water is a family memoir of intergenerational trauma and healing, of connection, of story, of how David Robertson's father's life--growing up in Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, then making the journey from Norway House to Winnipeg--informed the author's own life, and might even have saved it. Facing a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey together back to the trapline at Black Water, through the past to create a new future."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Robertson, David, 1977-; Robertson, Don, 1935-2019.; Authors, Canadian (English); Cree;
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- The Predator [videorecording] / by Busey, Jake,actor.; Holbrook, Boyd,1981-actor.; Jane, Thomas,actor.; Key, Keegan-Michael,1971-actor.; Munn, Olivia,1980-actor.; Black, Shane,film director,screenwriter.; Rhodes, Trevante,1990-actor.; Tremblay, Jacob,actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,film distributor.;
- Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Jake Busey.From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter, and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc, AVC @ 27 MBPS (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1 DVS, Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Science fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Predator hunting; Extraterrestrial beings; Interplanetary voyages; Human-alien encounters;
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- Help wanted : a novel / by Waldman, Adelle,author.;
- A group of misfit, big-box store employees working the overnight shift in a small upstate New York town vie for the stability, salary and possibility of a new job when their store manager announces he is leaving.
- Subjects: Black humor.; Satirical literature.; Social problem fiction.; Novels.; Retail trade; Retail trade;
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- The listener / by McCammon, Robert R.,author.;
- 1934. Businesses went under by the hundreds, debt and foreclosures boomed, and breadlines grew in many American cities. In the midst of this misery, some folks explored unscrupulous ways to make money. Angel-faced John Partlow and carnival huckster Ginger LaFrance are among the worst of this lot. Joining together they leave their small time confidence scams behind to attempt an elaborate kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in New Orleans. In a different part of town, Curtis Mayhew, a young black man who works as a redcap for the Union Railroad Station, has a reputation for mending quarrels and misunderstandings among his friends. What those friends don't know is that Curtis has a special talent for listening ... and he can sometimes hear things that aren't spoken aloud. One day, Curtis Mayhew's special talent allows him to overhear a child's cry for help, which draws him into the dangerous world of Partlow and LaFrance.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Paranormal fiction.; Depressions; Psychic ability; Kidnapping;
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- The unfinished / by Isaacs, Cheryl,author.;
- "When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's Falls have long forgotten. The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs to survive. Avery can smell the water, see it flooding everywhere; she thinks she's losing her mind. And as the black water haunts Avery--taking a new form each time--people in town begin to go missing. Though Avery had heard whispers of monsters from her Kanien'kéha:ka (Mohawk) relatives, she has never really connected to her Indigenous culture or understood the stories. But the Elders she has distanced herself from now may have the answers she needs. When Key, her best friend and longtime crush, is the next to disappear, Avery is faced with a choice: listen to the Kanien'kéha:ka and save the town but lose her friend forever ... or listen to her heart and risk everything to get Key back."--Publisher's description.013+.Grades 10-12.
- Subjects: Monster fiction.; Horror fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Indigenous peoples; Monsters; Secrecy; Small cities; Teenage girls; Indigenous peoples; Monsters; Secrets; Small cities; Teenage girls;
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- Southern man : a novel / by Iles, Greg,author.;
- "Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting -- one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown Black group claims the fires as acts of justice, panic ensues, driving the Mississippi River town to the brink of war"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Novels.; Cage, Penn (Fictitious character); Anarchism; Arson; Mass shootings; Murder; Political activists; Presidential candidates;
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