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Mucus mayhem / by Sylvester, Kevin.; Wilson, Britt,1986-;
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose? Likely not the power to harness your used tissues into crime-fighting snot golems? Thirteen-year-old Jess Flem is riddled with every allergy, known and unknown. She's used to leaving a trail of soggy, used tissues wherever she goes, but not at all prepared for the mysterious powers that show around her thirteenth birthday. And just in the nick of time too, as it turns out there are forces both good and evil who have had their eyes on her and three other "special" kids since their birth, knowing this day might someday come. Exposed to a mysterious element in the maternity ward of a small-town hospital, these four children develop not-so-super powers at puberty, each with their own specific limitations and all more than slightly goofy. As each discovers his or her power and struggles to master it, each is in turn drawn into an epic (or epically silly?) battle only they can fight. Good Dr Fassbinder, expert on the mysterious element, keeps tabs on the youngsters, while working for a secret government department. His evil ex-assistant, Nurse Nussbaum, thought to have perished in an explosion, is in fact powerfully alive, invisible, and bent on controlling our heroes to further her schemes of world domination.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Good and evil; Gifted children;
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The Northman [videorecording] / by Björk,actor.; Sjón,1962-screenwriter.; Bang, Claes,1967-actor.; Dafoe, Willem,actor.; Eggers, Robert,1983-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Hawke, Ethan,1970-actor.; Huffam, Mark,film producer.; Kidman, Nicole,1967-actor.; Knudsen, Lars,film producer.; Lindh, Gustav,1995-actor.; Milchan, Arnon,1944-film producer.; Skarsgård, Alexander,film producer,actor.; Taylor-Joy, Anya,1996-actor.; Focus Features,presenter.; New Regency (Firm),production company.; Regency Enterprises,presenter.; Square Peg (Firm),production company.; Universal Pictures (Firm),publisher.; Wan mei shi jie (Beijing) ying shi wen hua you xian gong si,presenter.;
Music, Robin Carolan, Sebastian Gainsborough ; editor, Louise Ford ; director of photography, Jarin Blaschke.Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Ethan Hawke, Björk, Willem Dafoe.From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder. Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence, some sexual content and nudity.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: Action and adventure films.; Epic films.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fathers and sons; Murder; Princes; Revenge; Uncles; Vikings;
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Where'd you go, Bernadette [videorecording] / by Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson,actor.; Bellisario, Troian,1985-actor.; Blanchett, Cate,1969-actor.; Burton, Kate,actor.; Chao, Zoe,actor.; Crudup, Billy,1968-actor.; Doumit, Claudia,actor.; Fishburne, Laurence,III,1961-actor.; Greer, Judy,1975-actor.; Jacobsen, Nina,film producer.; Linklater, Richard,1960-screenwriter,film director.; Mullally, Megan,actor.; Palmo, Holly Gent,screenwriter.; Palmo, Vince,screenwriter.; Simpson, Brad,1973-film producer.; Sledge, Ginger,film producer.; Urbaniak, James,1963-actor.; Wiig, Kristen,1973-actor.; Zahn, Steve,1968-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Semple, Maria.Where'd you go, Bernadette.; Annapurna Pictures,production company.; Color Force (Firm),production company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,film distributor.;
Costume designer, Kari Perkins ; music, Graham Reyonds ; editor, Sandra Adair ; production designer, Bruce Curtis ; director of photography, Shane Kelly.Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Troian Bellisario, Laurence Fishburne, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, James Urbaniak.Bernadette Fox, a loving mom, becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; some strong language and drug material.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Architects; Midlife crisis; Mothers and daughters; Mothers; Phobias; Women architects;
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Selma [videorecording] / by DuVernay, Ava,film director.; Ejogo, Carmen,1974-; Gooding, Cuba,Jr.,1968-; Oyelowo, David,actor.; Ribisi, Giovanni,1974-; Roth, Tim,actor.; Wilkinson, Tom,1948-; Winfrey, Oprah,actor.; Harpo Films,production company.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Plan B (Firm),production company.;
David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding, Jr.Selma chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.); African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements; Civil rights; Feature films.; Historical films.; Race discrimination; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Voter registration;
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Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Black shield maiden / by Smith, Willo2000-author.; Hendel, Jess,author.;
"From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: of warrior-kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen. That saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghanaian Empire and taken as a slave to a distant kingdom in the North. There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods. And there she also finds something unexpected: a kindred spirit. She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn't be more different than the confident and self-possessed Yafeu. But they both want the same thing: to forge their own fate. Yafeu inspires Freydis to dream of a future greater than the one that the king and queen have forced upon her. And with the princess at her side, Yafeu learns to navigate this new world and grows increasingly determined to become one of the legendary shield maidens. For Yafeu may have lost her home, but she still knows who she is, and she's not afraid to be the flame that burns a city to the ground so a new world can rise from the ashes. She will alter the course of history-and become the revolutionary heroine of her own myth"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Enslaved persons; Princesses; Vikings; Women;
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The pillars of the Earth [videorecording] / by Atwell, Hayley,1982-; Follett, Ken.Pillars of the Earth.[videorecording].; Macfadyen, Matthew,1974-; McShane, Ian,1942-; Mimica-Gezzan, Sergio.; Pielmeier, John.; Redmayne, Eddie,1982-; Sutherland, Donald,1935-; Movie Central (Firm); Movie Network.; Scott Free Productions.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Tandem Communications (Firm);
Music, Trevor Morris ; editor, Richard Comeau, Sylvain Lebel ; director of photography, Attila Szalay.Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell, Ian McShane, Matthew MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland.In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Historical television programs.; Follett, Ken.; Architects and builders; Architecture, Gothic; Cathedrals; Man-woman relationships; Middle Ages; Stonemasons; Television mini-series.;
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Everything the light touches : a novel / by Pariat, Janice,author.;
Everything the Light Touches is Janice Pariat's magnificent epic of travelers, of discovery, of time, of science, of human connection, and of the impermanent nature of the universe and life itself--a bold and brilliant saga that unfolds through the adventures and experiences of four intriguing characters. Shai is a young woman in modern India. Lost and drifting, she travels to her country's Northeast and rediscovers, through her encounters with indigenous communities, ways of being that realign and renew her. Evelyn is a student of science in Edwardian England. Inspired by Goethe's botanical writings, she leaves Cambridge on a quest to wander the sacred forests of the Lower Himalayas. Linnaeus, a botanist and taxonomist who famously declared "God creates; Linnaeus organizes," sets off on an expedition to an unfamiliar world, the far reaches of Lapland in 1732. Goethe is a philosopher, writer, and one of the greatest minds of his age. While traveling through Italy in the 1780s, he formulates his ideas for "The Metamorphosis of Plants," a little-known, revelatory text that challenges humankind's propensity to reduce plants--and the world--into immutable parts. Drawn richly from scientific and botanical ideas, Everything the Light Touches is a swirl of ever-expanding themes: the contrasts between modern India and its colonial past, urban and rural life, capitalism and centuries-old traditions of generosity and gratitude, script and "song and stone." Pulsating at its center is the dichotomy between different ways of seeing, those that fix and categorize and those that free and unify. Pariat questions the imposition of fixity--of our obsession to place permanence on plants, people, stories, knowledge, land--where there is only movement, fluidity, and constant transformation. "To be still," says a character in the book, "is to be without life." Everything the Light Touches brings together, with startling and playful novelty, people and places that seem, at first, removed from each other in time and place. Yet as it artfully reveals, all is resonance; all is connection.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Nature fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Botany; Women;
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Demon Copperhead [text (large print)] : a novel / by Kingsolver, Barbara,author.;
Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Large type books.; Novels.; Opioid abuse; Orphans; Teenage boys;
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You are here : a novel / by Nicholls, David,1966-author.;
"Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he'll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she's battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it's passing her by. When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for. Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future ... if they can survive the journey."--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Hiking; Man-woman relationships;
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Olga : a novel / by Schlink, Bernhard,author.; Collins, Charlotte,1967-translator.; translation of:Schlink, Bernhard.Olga.English.;
"Abandoned by her parents, Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees women as second-best. When Olga falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with gaining all the power, glory and greatness the modern age can provide, her life is irremediably changed. Their love goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, entwined with the twisting paths of German history, leading us from the late 19th to the early 21st century, from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west. Unfolding across centuries, Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of devotion to a restless man in a fateful moment of great rebellion. Though Olga lives her life within the margins of others, her magnetic presence breathes vivid life into these pages. Told in three distinct parts-which brilliantly shift from different points of view to the epistolary form-Schlink paints a full portrait of a singular woman's complex life"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Friendship; Man-woman relationships; Teachers; Travelers;
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