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Black dove : a novel / by McAdam, Colin,author.;
"In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength; the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. Running from a bully one night, Oliver finds refuge in a junk shop owned by an enigmatic man. Soon, instead of hiding in the janitor's closet after school, Oliver spends afternoons in the shop, a cavernous place full of storied oddities and grubby wonders where creatures rise up from the basement. A snake in the shape of a boy. A hunter named Night, part panther, part hound, who proves to Oliver that the world holds invisible wonder. Wanting to forget his mother, afraid of his own genes, constantly harassed by bullies, Oliver decides to follow the shop-owner down the path of genetic editing. As he begins his transformation he meets the girl from across the street, and their friendship grows in a neighbourhood where magic is real, where murderers gather, and where the darker consequences of fantasies play out. A twisting story of grief and revenge, Black Dove is a thrilling read with its own kind of magic. In rich but tightly reined prose, McAdam celebrates the value and shortfalls of storytelling, finding a light in all the darkness to conjure a tender portrait of childhood's end"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Boys; Fathers and sons; Genetic engineering; Revenge; Storytelling; Victims of bullying;
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The co-parenting handbook : raising well-adjusted and resilient kids from little ones to young adults through divorce or separation / by Bonnell, Karen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A practical manual for parents transitioning from being a married couple with children to being solely co-parents together. This guide helps them navigate difficult emotional terrain, create boundaries, and establish guidelines so that together they can be the parents their children deserve. The Co-Parenting Handbookhelps parents confidently take on the challenges of raising children when they live in separate homes. Addressing parents' questions about the emotional impact of separation, conflict, grief, and recovery, the author skillfully provides a roadmap for all members of the family to constructively navigate through separation/divorce and beyond. Through practical and reassuring guidance, parents discover how to move on from being angry and hurt partners to constructive, successful co-parents who are able to put their children's needs first"--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Parenting, Part-time; Parenting, Part-time;
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A theatre for dreamers / by Samson, Polly,author.;
1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzlingly beautiful wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian poet named Leonard Cohen. Into their midst arrives teenage Erica, with little more than a bundle of blank notebooks and her grief for her mother. Settling on the periphery of this circle, she watches, entranced and disquieted, as a paradise unravels. Burning with the heat and light of Greece, A Theatre for Dreamers is a spellbinding novel about utopian dreams and innocence lost - and the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Artists; Communities; Genius; Interpersonal relations; Poets;
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Beautiful ugly / by Feeney, Alice,author.;
"Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there ... but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can't sleep, and he can't write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible - a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. Wives think their husbands will change but they don't. Husbands think their wives won't change but they do"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Authors; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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The staircase [videorecording] : limited series / by Campos, Antonio,1983-creator.; Collette, Toni,actor.; Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; Schwarzenegger, Patrick,1993-actor.; Stuhlbarg, Michael,actor.; Studio Distribution Services (Firm),publisher.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner, Odessa Young, Dane Dehaan, Tim Guinee, Vincent Vermignon, Juliette Binoche.Inspired by a true story, The Staircase follows writer and war veteran Michael Peterson after the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen. On December 9, 2001, Michael makes a frantic 911 call reporting Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC home. But when the district attorney brings murder charges, members of Michael's blended family must choose whose side they're on and which version of events to believe. As the case becomes engulfed in a media circus, a French documentary film crew arrives to meticulously chronicle its many twists and turns. Intertwining multiple perspectives and timelines, this gripping limited series explores the elusive nature of truth, while serving as an intimate portrait of a family's grief.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Legal television programs.; Television crime shows.; Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Peterson, Kathleen, 1953-2001; Peterson, Michael (Michael I.); Murder; Murder; Novelists; Trials (Murder); Uxoricide;
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Someone knows / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.;
Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret. Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't punished by the law, Allie has punished herself, and it's a life sentence. Now, Allie stands on the precipice of losing everything. She's ready for a reckoning, determined to learn how the prank went so horribly wrong. She digs to unearth the truth, but reaches a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming - and neither will the listener.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Secrecy; Justice;
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Forever Young. by Miner, Steve,film director.; Marshall Grant, David,actor.; Wood, Elijah,actor.; Wendt, George,actor.; Glasser, Isabel,actor.; Lee Curtis, Jamie,actor.; Morton, Joe,actor.; Gibson, Mel,actor.; Surovy, Nicolas,actor.; Warner Bros. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
David Marshall Grant, Elijah Wood, George Wendt, Isabel Glasser, Jamie Lee Curtis, Joe Morton, Mel Gibson, Nicolas SurovyOriginally produced by Warner Bros. in 1992.Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis star in this romance of a daredevil test pilot who has everything but loses the woman he loves—only to discover that true love never dies, and the things that matter remain FOREVER YOUNG. In 1939 Army Air Corps test pilot Daniel McCormick (Gibson) has a perfect job and a woman he loves. But a tragedy suddenly strikes his love, and Daniel's future is snatched away in an instant. Grief-stricken, Daniel volunteers for a top-secret cryogenics experiment—which accidentally puts him into frozen slumber for more than 50 years. He awakens in 1992, lost and alone. But through friendship with a fatherless young boy (Elijah Wood) and the boy's mother (Lee Curtis), Daniel discovers that time waits for no man, but true love waits forever.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Science fiction.; Motion pictures.; Romance.;
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Beautiful ugly [sound recording] / by Feeney, Alice,author.; Armitage, Richard,1971-narrator.; Middleton, Tuppence,1987-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton."Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there ... but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can't sleep, and he can't write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible - a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. Wives think their husbands will change but they don't. Husbands think their wives won't change but they do"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Authors; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Waiting for the long night moon : stories / by Peters, Amanda,author.;
"In this intimate collection, Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A young woman finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. An old man remembers his life as he patiently waits for death. And a young girl nervously dances in her first Mawi'omi. The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award-nominated story "(Winter Arrives)." At times sad, sometimes disturbing but always redemptive, the stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moon will remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most importantly, there is power."--
Subjects: Short stories.; Indigenous peoples;
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Embers : one Ojibway's meditations / by Wagamese, Richard,author.;
"In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe, drawing inspiration from working in the bush--sawing and cutting and stacking wood for winter as well as the smudge ceremony to bring him closer to the Creator. Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's most personal volume to date. Honest, evocative and articulate, he explores the various manifestations of grief, joy, recovery, beauty, gratitude, physicality and spirituality--concepts many find hard to express. But for Wagamese, spirituality is multifaceted. Within these pages, readers will find hard-won and concrete wisdom on how to feel the joy in the everyday things. Wagamese does not seek to be a teacher or guru, but these observations made along his own journey to become, as he says, "a spiritual bad-ass," make inspiring reading."--
Subjects: Wagamese, Richard.; Ojibwa Indians;
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