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The Phoenix Pencil Company : a novel / by King, Allison,author.;
"Monica Tsai spends her days analyzing data for a new computer program that seeks to connect strangers with the world around them. But one day the very program she's helping to build pings a result for her beloved grandmother Yun's long-estranged cousin: a photograph of two women in Shanghai. One of them, Louise Sun, is a digital archivist who holds keys to Yun's past, and whose gift of a single pencil upends Monica's day-to-day. Monica's discoveries of a hidden family history are exquisitely braided with her grandmother Yun's own memories, recounting her time growing up in the Phoenix Pencil Company in the 1940s. While Japan invades China, Yun's cousin Meng moves in with them-but when the government discovers their family can Reforge a pencil's words, magically reviving the memories they hold, the cousins are separated and forced into a life of betraying stories in order to survive. Combining the cross-generational family saga and epistolary form of Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being with the uplifting magic of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library, King's stunningly layered debut novel asks: who owns a story? The answers and secrets that surface on the page have the unerasable power to unite or threaten Monica, Yun, and their most valued relationships for good"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Chinese Americans; Espionage; Families; Family secrets; Intergenerational relations; Magic; Memory; World War, 1939-1945;
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A little chaos [videorecording] / by Brock, Jeremy,1959-screenwriter.; Deegan, Alison,screenwriter.; Rickman, Alan,screenwriter,film director,actor.; Schoenaerts, Matthias,1977-actor.; Tucci, Stanley,actor.; Winslet, Kate,actor.; Focus World (Firm),presenter,publisher.; Lionsgate UK,production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Nicolas Gaster ; music composed by Peter Gregson.Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman.A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270; Artists; Feature films.; Gardens; Historical films.; Landscape design; Romance films.;
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A room full of bones / by Griffiths, Elly.;
Set in Norfolk, England, A Room Full of Bones embroils, once again, brainy Ruth Galloway, in a crime tinged by occult forces. On Halloween night, the Smith Museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event -- the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But when forensic archaelogist Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise, she finds the curator, Neil Topham, dead beside the coffin. Topham's death seems to be related to other uncanny incidents, including the arcane tactics of a group called the Elginists, which aims to repatriate the museum''s extensive collection of Aborigine skulls; the untimely demise of the museum''s owner, Lord Smith; and the sudden, dangerous illness of DCI Harry Nelson, who Ruth's friend Cathbad believes is lost in The Dreaming -- a hallucinogenic state central to some Indigenous Australian beliefs. Something must be done to set matters right and lift Nelson out of the clutches of death, but will Ruth be able to muster herself out of a state of guilt and foreboding in order to solve the mystery in time?
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Galloway, Ruth (Fictitious character); Women forensic anthropologists;
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King of ashes [sound recording] : a novel / by Cosby, S. A.,author.; Lazarre-White, Adam,1969-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Adam Lazarre-White."Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family-and the family business-together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante's recklessness has placed them all in real danger. Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he's forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills. Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything. Because everything burns."--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Gangster fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Crematoriums; Family-owned business enterprises; Missing persons; Organized crime; Siblings;
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The West Wing. [videorecording] / by Channing, Stockard.; Hill, Dulé.; Janney, Allison.; Malina, Joshua,1966-; Moloney, Janel,1969-; Schiff, Richard,1959-; Sheen, Martin.; Spencer, John,1946-; Whitford, Bradley.; John Wells Productions (Firm); Warner Bros. Television.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Disc 1. N.S.F. Thurmont -- The Birnam Woods -- Third day story -- Liftoff.Disc 2. The Hubbert Peak -- The Dover test -- A change is gonna come -- In the room.Disc 3. Impact winter -- Faith-based initiative -- Opposition research.Disc 4. 365 days -- King Corn -- The wake up call -- Freedonia.Disc 5. Drought conditions -- A good day -- La Palabra -- Ninety Miles away.Disc 6. In God we trust -- Things fall apart -- 2162 votes.Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford.Follow the drama when the government is temporarily passed from a Democratic administration to the Republican Speaker of the House, as President Bartlet copes with the kidnapping of his youngest daughter Zoey.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Presidents; Presidents; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Dreaming spies : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes / by King, Laurie R.;
"It is a normal afternoon in Sussex when Russell and Holmes return home to find a peculiar addition to their garden: a beautiful stone that once occupied the Imperial gardens in Kyoto. The stone immediately recalls the spring of 1924, when, on their way back from India (The Game), Russell and Holmes agreed to perform a small but exceedingly dangerous job for the emperor of Japan. At the time, Russell encountered a young Japanese woman on board their ship who tutored the two foreigners about her country and guided them into a secret meeting with the Prince Regent himself. Now, when Russell heads for Oxford to resume her long-delayed studies, she comes face-to-face with that very same young Japanese woman--and quickly realizes Miss Sato Haruki is not all that she seems."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Russell, Mary (Fictitious character);
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Fargo. [videorecording] / by Danson, Ted,1947-actor.; Dunst, Kirsten,1982-actor.; McGregor, Ewan,1971-actor.; Offerman, Nick,1970-actor.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Wilson, Patrick,1973-actor.; Bluebush Productions,production company.; MGM-TV,production company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.;
Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Patrick Wilson, Nick Offerman, Ewan McGregor.Okey-dokey, watcha got here is the darkly humorous and utterly riveting third season. Ewan McGregor gives one heckuva performance in dual roles as the 'Parking Lot King of Minnesota', Emmit Stussy, and his younger brother, Ray, a potbellied parole officer with a big chip on his shoulder. The only bright spot in Ray's life is Nikki, a not-so-good woman with brains, beauty and a passion for competitive bridge.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen 1.78:1 presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Crime; Criminal investigation; Police;
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The little mermaid [videorecording] / by Alexander, Jessica,actor.; Awkwafina,1988-actor.; Bailey, Halle,2000-actor.; Bardem, Javier,1969-actor.; DeLuca, John,film producer,screenwriter.; Diggs, Daveed,actor.; Dumezweni, Noma,actor.; Hauer-King, Jonah,1995-actor.; Magee, David,1962-screenwriter.; Malik, Art,actor.; Marshall, Rob,film director,screenwriter,film producer.; McCarthy, Melissa,1969-actor.; Miranda, Lin-Manuel,1980-film producer,lyricist.; Tremblay, Jacob,actor.; Walt Disney Pictures,publisher.;
Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Javier Bardem, Melissa McCarthy, Daveed Diggs, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Noma Dumezweni, Jessica Alexander, Art Malik.The youngest of King Triton's daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life and her father's crown in jeopardy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for action/peril and some scary images.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD, wide screen (2.39:1); Dolby digital 5.1, English audio description 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Musical films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Ariel (Mermaid); Princesses; Witches;
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Pain killer : a memoir of big league addiction / by Myhres, Brantt,1974-author.;
"From the only player to be banned for life from the NHL, a harrowing tale of addiction, and an astonishing path to recovery. Brantt Myhres wasn't around for the birth of his daughter. Myhres had played for seven different NHL teams, and had made millions. But he'd been suspended four times, all for drug use, and he had partied his way out of the league. By the time his daughter was born, he was penniless, sleeping on a friend's couch. He'd just been released from police custody. He had a choice between sticking around for the birth, and showing up for league-mandated rehab. He went to rehab. For the fifth time. This is his story, in his own words, of how he fought his way out of minor hockey into the big league, but never left behind the ghosts of a bleak and troubled childhood. He tells the story of discovering booze as a way of handling the anxiety of fighting, and of the thrill of cocaine. In the raw language of the locker room, he tells of how substance abuse poisoned the love he had in his life, and sabotaged a great career. Full of stories of week-long benders and stripper-filled hot tubs, motorcycle crashes and barroom brawls, Playing Guilty is at its most powerful when Myhres acknowledges how he let himself down, and betrayed those who trusted him. Again and again, he fools the executives and doctors who tried to give him a second chance, then a third, then a fourth, and with each betrayal, he spirals further downward. But finally, on the eve of his daughter's birth, when all the money was gone, every bridge burnt, and every opportunity squandered, he was given a last chance. And this time, it worked. It worked so well, that not only has he been around for his daughter for the past eleven years, he was signed by the LA Kings as a "sober coach": a guy who'd been there, a guy who could recognize and help solve problems before they ruined lives and made headlines (as the Kings had seen happen three times that one season). Not only did Myhres save himself, he saved others. Unpolished, unpretentious, and unflinching, Myhres tells it like it is, acknowledging every mistake, and painting a portrait of an angry, violent, dangerous man caught in the vice of something he couldn't control, and didn't understand. If Brantt Myhres can pull himself together, anyone can. And he does, convincingly, and inspiringly."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Myhres, Brantt, 1974-; Myhres, Brantt, 1974-; Myhres, Brantt, 1974-; Hockey players; Recovering addicts;
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The 5th wave [videorecording] / by Blakeson, J,film director.; Borders, Bailey Anne,actor.; Lopez, Gabriela,actor.; Moretz, Chloë,1997-actor.; Zuk, Matthew,actor.; Columbia Pictures Corporation,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Chloe Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Zackary Arthur.Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.Sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan is trying to survive a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion, while trying to save her five-year-old brother Sam from a training camp that was created by the Others (the aliens).Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Brothers and sisters; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Rescues; Survival;
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