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Orphan bachelors : a memoir : on being a confession baby, Chinatown daughter, baa-bai sister, caretaker of exotics, literary balloon peddler, and grand historian of a doomed American family / by Ng, Fae Myenne,1956-author.;
"From the bestselling, award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is a singular memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Beloved by readers for her "incantatory" (New York Times) novels and their luminous depictions of Chinatown, Fae Myenne Ng's new memoir is a personal, timely portrait of the same storied place. In pre-Communist China, Ng's father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger's son, evading the Exclusion Act, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family. During the McCarthy era, he entered the Confession Program only to have his citizenship revoked. Ng was her parents' precocious firstborn. A child raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother, by Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors--men without wives or children, exclusion's living legacy. Exclusion's shadow followed Ng from the back alleys of Chinatown in the sixties, to Manhattan in the eighties, to the high desert of California in the nineties, until her return home in the 2000s when the deaths of her youngest brother and her father devastated the family. As a child, Ng believed her father's lies; as an adult, she returned to her childhood home to write his truth. Orphan Bachelors weaves together the history of one doomed family; an elegy for brothers estranged and for elders lost; and insights into writing between languages and teaching between generations. In this powerful remembrance, Ng gives voice to her ancestors, her Orphan Bachelors, and her own inner self, howling in Cantonese, impossible to translate but determined to be heard"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-; Chinese American authors; Chinese American families;
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The murder of an angel / by Patterson, James,1947-; Paetro, Maxine.;
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Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Twins; Stalking; Families;
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Interview with the vampire [videorecording (DVD)] by Jordan, Neil,1951-; Cruise, Tom,1962-; Pitt, Brad,1963-; Dunst, Kirsten,1982; Rice, Anne,1941-Interview with the vampire;
Director of photography, Philippe Rousselot ; production design, Dante Ferretti ; editor, Mick Audsley ; music, Elliot Goldenthal.Tom Cruise, Bradd Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater.The selfishly evil vampire Lestat (Cruise), seduces Louis into a life of immortality, where he is troubled by the need to kill to maintain his own life. He confesses his 200 year erotic and bloody adventure to an unbelieving journalist.CHV rating: R.MPAA rating: R.NTSC 1, Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Vampire films.; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c2000., Warner Home Video,
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Meet Dave [videorecording (DVD)] / by Banks, Elizabeth,1975-; Murphy, Eddie,1961-; Robbins, Brian,1963-; Union, Gabrielle.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms.When a crew of small human-like aliens arrive on Earth in a ship designed to look like their captain, they encounter problems when their ship becomes attracted to a human woman.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD (double sided) ; full screen and widescreen presenations.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Extraterrestrial beings; Feature films.; Human-alien encounters; Space ships; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2008., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country / by Murdoch, Sierra Crane,author.;
"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and no one but his mother was actively looking for him. Unfolding like a gritty mystery, Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. She navigates two worlds -- that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oil workers, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit becomes an effort at redemption -- an atonement for her own crimes and a reckoning with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is both an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and -- when it serves her cause -- manipulative. Ultimately, it is a deep examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing"--
Subjects: Yellow Bird, Lissa.; Clarke, Kristopher.; Criminal investigation; Missing persons; Oil industry workers;
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Kitty Genovese : the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America / by Cook, Kevin,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.More than a name -- Opposites -- Garden suburb -- Tigers and ants -- Village people -- She loves you -- Ozone park -- The 11th hour -- Night of the hunt -- Postmortem -- Neighbors -- Confessions -- Pleas -- Questions for the devil -- Consequences -- Calling for help -- Jailbreak -- The uses of memory -- Case studies -- Revisions -- Thirty-six minutes.
Subjects: Genovese, Catherine, -1964.; Murder victims; Murder; Police; Witnesses;
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Breaking up with busy : real-life solutions for overscheduled women / by Tally, Yvonne,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A Silicon Valley-entrepreneur shares techniques to manage time, relieve stress, and live a balanced life. Aimed specifically at busy professional women who feel overwhelmed by work and family commitments"--
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology); Stress management.; Time management.;
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La passione : how Italy seduced the world / by Hales, Dianne R.,1950-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A charming narrative and "pop historical" look into how Italy has shaped the Western world's most vibrant passions, from literature to love, music to art, food to wine"--
Subjects: Civilization, Western;
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Grave danger / by Johnston, Michael(Michael Anthony),1973-; Altés, Marta.;
Sent as an exchange student to a rival school, a hapless warlock-in-training struggles to live up to his great and terrible destiny.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Warlocks; Orphans; Animals, Mythical; Leadership; Schools; Student exchange programs;
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Which brings me to you [videorecording] / by Bunin, Keith,screenwriter.; Dal Farra, Claude,film producer.; Hale, Lucy,1989-actor.; Hutchings, Peter(Director),film director.; Keady, Brian,film producer.; Oldford, Britne,actor.; Wolff, Nat,1994-actor.; Decal (Firm),publisher.;
Lucy Hale, Nat Wolff, Britne Oldford, Genevieve Angelsone, Alexander Hodge, John Gallagher Jr.Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend's wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing. Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff star in this hilarious tale from the team behind The Hating Game.14A.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.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Romantic comedy films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Weddings;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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