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- The room on Rue Amélie / by Harmel, Kristin,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family--by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again--tells the tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II. When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, she imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter, too. Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital, their sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. After the Jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, Charlotte can't imagine things getting much worse. But then the mass deportations begin, and her life is ripped forever apart. Thomas Clarke joins the British Royal Air Force to protect his country, but when his beloved mother dies in a German bombing during the waning days of the Blitz, he wonders if he's really making a difference. Then he finds himself in Paris, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, and he discovers a new reason to keep fighting--and an unexpected road home. When fate brings them together, Ruby, Charlotte, and Thomas must summon the courage to defy the Nazis--and to open their own broken hearts--as they fight to survive. Rich with historical drama and emotional depth, this is an unforgettable story that will stay with you long after the final page is turned"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945;
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- Next stop : a novel / by Resnick, Benjamin,author.;
- "For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles. When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth? Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city's Jewish residents. Some Jews, feeling inexplicably drawn to the unusual events, go underground to an abandoned subway system that seems to connect the entire world. Others leave for the south, forming militias and stockpiling weapons. But most, like Ethan, Ella, and her young son Michael, stay and try to make their way amid the hostility and small joys of the ever-changing landscape. But then thousands of commercial planes are sucked from the sky. Air travel stops. Borders close. Refugees pour into the capital. Eventually all Jews in the city are forced to relocate to the Pale, an area sandwiched between a park and a river. There, under the watchful eye of border guards, drones, and robotic dogs, they form a fragile new society. Suspenseful, thought-provoking, and brilliantly conceived, Next Stop is an enthralling novel that explores the fault lines between our collective, national, and individual memories and how our deepest bonds can be unexpectedly reshaped in moments of crisis"--
- Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Antisemitism; Black holes (Astronomy); Families; Jews; Jews; Man-woman relationships; Photojournalists;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The lovebirds [videorecording] / by Abrams, Aaron,1978-screenwriter.; Andrews, Michael,1967-composer (expression); Bornheimer, Kyle,1975-actor.; Burgoyne, Brian,1979-director of photography.; Camp, Anna,1982-actor.; Filippone, Vince,editor of moving image work.; Gall, Brendan,screenwriter.; Gero, Martin,1977-screenwriter,film producer.; Lassally, Tom,film producer.; Mollick, Jordana,1980-film producer.; Nanjiani, Kumail,actor.; Nassau, Robert,editor of moving image work.; Obst, Oly,1978-film producer.; Rae, Issa,actor.; Schulman, Todd,film producer.; Showalter, Michael,1970-film director.; Sparks, Paul,1971-actor.; 3 Arts Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Media Rights Capital (Firm),presenter.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,presenter.; Quinn's House (Firm),production company.;
- Music, Michael Andrews ; editors, Robert Nassau, Vince Filippone ; director of photography, Brian Burgoyne.Kumail Nanjiani, Issa Rae, Paul Sparks, Anna Camp, Kyle Bornheimer.Breakup-bound Leilani (Issa Rae) and Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) were trying to be good citizens when they let a badge-flashing pedestrian commandeer their car to chase a fugitive bicyclist. However, the "cop" proceeded to literally run down his quarry, then take off on foot. After being made by eyewitnesses, they're faced with a comic hunt to try and clear their names--and if they blow it, it won't just be their relationship that's doomed.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for sexual content, language throughout and some violence.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Crime films.; Romantic comedy films.; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Murder;
- For private home use only.
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- The Familiar A Novel [electronic resource] : by Bardugo, Leigh.aut; cloudLibrary;
- From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 by The Washington Post, NPR, Goodreads, LitHub, The Nerd Daily, Paste Magazine, Today.com, and so much more! “A must-read for those who are seeking a little magic in their lives.” —Deborah Harkness, #1 bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.General adult.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Historical; Magical Realism;
- © 2024., Flatiron Books,
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- Men in black. [videorecording] / by Brolin, Josh.; Clement, Jemaine.; Cunningham, Lowell,1959-; Jones, Tommy Lee,1946-; Smith, Will,1968-; Sonnenfeld, Barry.; Thompson, Emma.; Columbia Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
- Music by Danny Elfman ; cinematography, Bill Pope ; edited by Don Zimmerman.Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson.The Men in Black are back, and this time Agent J (Will Smith) must take a trip into the past in order to save both the future and his taciturn partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in the third installment of the hit sci-fi comedy series. After 15 years of working with aliens from all across the cosmos, Agent J is sure he's seen it all. But just when he's getting the hang of the game, he learns that history has inexplicably been rewritten. In this new timeline of events, Agent K has been dead for 40 years, and Earth will soon come under attack from an extraterrestrial force with the power to claim the entire planet. Now, in order to set the past straight and head off an invasion of epic proportions, Agent J must travel back to the year 1969, when Young Agent K (Josh Brolin) was just a fresh new face on the force. But Agent J only has 24 hours to find the source of the coming catastrophe and discern how his longtime partner ties into the situation -- should he fail he'll be stuck in the past forever.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Human-alien encounters; Male friendship; Men in black (UFO phenomenon); Science fiction films.; Time travel;
- © c2012., Columbia Pictures : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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- Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / by Rushkoff, Douglas,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the "Event": the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making-as long as they have enough money and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters-master programmers who want to remake the world from scratch as if redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced that incentivized capitalism is the solution to environmental disasters-Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so. And he shows how recent forms of anti-mainstream rebellion-QAnon, for example, or meme stocks-reinforce the same destructive order. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset created-a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies-and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. In a thundering conclusion, Survival of the Richest argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn't happen in the first place"--
- Subjects: Billionaires; Survivalism; Technology and civilization;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Masquerade [electronic resource] : by Sangoyomi, O.O..aut; Blake, Ariel.nrt; cloudLibrary;
- Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future. “A bewitching, thrilling and vibrant novel that had me enthralled with every twist and turn.” —Jennifer Saint, New York Times bestselling author Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland, and living conditions for the women in her blacksmith guild, who were already shunned as social pariahs, grow even worse. Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all; he is the warrior king, and he has chosen her to be his wife. In a sudden change of fortune, Òdòdó soars to the very heights of society. But after a lifetime of subjugation, she finds the power that saturates this world of battle and political savvy too enticing to resist. As tensions with rival states grow, revealing elaborate schemes and enemies hidden in plain sight, Òdòdó must defy the cruel king she has been forced to wed by reforging the shaky loyalties of the court in her favor, or risk losing everything—including her life. Loosely based on the myth of Persephone, O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade takes you on a journey of epic power struggles and political intrigue which turn an entire region on its head. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Forge.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical; Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Alternative History;
- © 2024., Macmillan Audio,
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- Rebel mother : my childhood chasing the revolution / by Andreas, Peter,author.;
- "The adventure tale and intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, a housewife turned radical who kidnapped her son and set off for South America in search of the revolution. Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went, even kidnapping him and running off to South America after his straitlaced father won a long and bitter custody fight. They were chasing the revolution together, though the more they chased it the more distant it became. They battled the bad "isms" (sexism, imperialism, capitalism, fascism, consumerism), and fought for the good "isms" (feminism, socialism, communism, egalitarianism). They were constantly running, moving, hiding. Between the ages of five and eleven, Peter attended more than a dozen schools and lived in more than a dozen homes, moving from the comfortably bland suburbs of Detroit to a hippie commune in Berkeley to a socialist collective farm in pre-military coup Chile to highland villages and coastal shantytowns in Peru. When they secretly returned to America they settled down clandestinely in Denver, where his mother changed her name to hide from his father. This is an extraordinary account of a deep mother-son bond and the joy and toll of growing up with a radical mother in a radical age. Andreas is an insightful and candid narrator whose unforgettable memoir gives new meaning to the old saying, "the personal is political.""--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Andreas, Peter, 1965-; Andreas, Carol.; Andreas, Peter, 1965-; Americans; Americans; College teachers; Feminists; Mothers and sons; Radicalism; Women political activists; Women revolutionaries;
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- The adjustment bureau [videorecording] / by Blunt, Emily.; Carter, Natalie.; Damon, Matt.; Dick, Philip K.Adjustment bureau.Videorecording.; Kastriner, Florence.; MacBryde, Phyllis.; Mackie, Anthony,1979-; Nolfi, George.; Scarborough, Chuck.; Slattery, John,1963-; Stewart, Jon,1962-; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
- Music by Jay Rabinowitz ; director of photography, John Toll ; edited by Jay Rabinowitz.Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Anthony Mackie, Florence Kastriner, Natalie Carter, Phyllis MacBryde, Jon Stewart, Chuck Scarborough.The budding romance between a rising U.S. congressman and a gifted ballet dancer is unexpectedly complicated by otherworldly forces seeking to drive them apart by altering the very fabric of reality. David Norris (Matt Damon) is a rising New York congressmen whose everyman charisma has earned him a loyal following among locals. One night, after suffering a crushing political defeat, David is rehearsing his concession speech in a hotel bathroom when out of a stall wanders Elise (Emily Blunt), who was hiding out from security guards after crashing a wedding. The chemistry between David and Elise is instant and electric. But as fast as she appeared, Elise has vanished, leaving David to wonder if he will ever see her again. A few days later, as if by chance, David is boarding a bus for work when he spots Elise in a window seat. Though he manages to get her number this time, David is terrified when he arrives at his new job and discovers a mysterious group of men performing an unusual procedure on his paralyzed co-workers. Informed by the imposing and sharp-dressed Richardson (John Slattery) that he has just seen behind a curtain that few will ever know even exists.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, DVS Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- Subjects: Dick, Philip K.; Ballerinas; Fate and fatalism; Feature films.; Legislators; Man-woman relationships; Science fiction films.;
- © c2011., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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- The adjustment bureau [videorecording] / by Blunt, Emily.; Carter, Natalie.; Damon, Matt.; Dick, Philip K.Adjustment bureau.Videorecording.; Kastriner, Florence.; MacBryde, Phyllis.; Mackie, Anthony,1979-; Nolfi, George.; Scarborough, Chuck.; Slattery, John,1963-; Stewart, Jon,1962-; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
- Music by Jay Rabinowitz ; director of photography, John Toll ; edited by Jay Rabinowitz.Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Anthony Mackie, Florence Kastriner, Natalie Carter, Phyllis MacBryde, Jon Stewart, Chuck Scarborough.The budding romance between a rising U.S. congressman and a gifted ballet dancer is unexpectedly complicated by otherworldly forces seeking to drive them apart by altering the very fabric of reality. David Norris (Matt Damon) is a rising New York congressmen whose everyman charisma has earned him a loyal following among locals. One night, after suffering a crushing political defeat, David is rehearsing his concession speech in a hotel bathroom when out of a stall wanders Elise (Emily Blunt), who was hiding out from security guards after crashing a wedding. The chemistry between David and Elise is instant and electric. But as fast as she appeared, Elise has vanished, leaving David to wonder if he will ever see her again. A few days later, as if by chance, David is boarding a bus for work when he spots Elise in a window seat. Though he manages to get her number this time, David is terrified when he arrives at his new job and discovers a mysterious group of men performing an unusual procedure on his paralyzed co-workers. Informed by the imposing and sharp-dressed Richardson (John Slattery) that he has just seen behind a curtain that few will ever know even exists.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, DVS Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- Subjects: Dick, Philip K.; Ballerinas; Fate and fatalism; Feature films.; Legislators; Man-woman relationships; Science fiction films.;
- © c2011., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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