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- Shy / by Porter, Max,author.;
Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables, and for all the red noise in his mind to disappear. But again and again he spirals past his senses and ends up with his head in his hands and carnage around him. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that. He's been kicked out of two schools, been cautioned, arrested, stabbed his stepdad in the finger and bottled a former Tumble Tots playmate, but it's the taunts and teasing of his new schoolmates that haunt Shy. Shy's got no armpit hair / Shy needs fake ID to buy fags / Got your special meds, nutcase? At Last Chance - a home for 'very disturbed young men' - he is surrounded by people who want to help him, but his night terrors aren't getting any better. The night is huge and it hurts. So tonight he's stepping into it, with the haunted beginnings of a plan.- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Guilt; Imagination; Teenage boys;
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- Killing Commendatore / by Murakami, Haruki,1949-author.; Goossen, Theodore William,1948-translator.; Gabriel, Philip,1953-translator.; translation of:Murakami, Haruki,1949-Kishidancho goroshi.English.;
"A publishing event: a major new, epic novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. An unnamed thirty-something portrait painter, abandoned by his wife, becomes caretaker of the home of an aging famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When the younger man discovers an unknown painting in the attic, entitled "Killing Commendatore"--a painting that takes its cues from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni--he also discovers clues about Amada, his family and their involvement in a violent and failed plot to kill a Nazi leader in Vienna. As the painter slowly learns the truth, he is equally consumed by the story of a wealthy and mysterious neighbor, Menshiki, in what is, according to the author, a clear homage to The Great Gatsby. The painter becomes obsessed with Menshiki's doomed love affair, the young girl who might be his child and a stone-lined underground space in the nearby woods where Buddhist priests were once buried alive. This pit becomes a portal into another world, a surreal place where the figures from "Killing Commendatore" take form to guide our narrator on an epic journey. Ambitious and haunting, tactile and surreal, preoccupied with questions about trauma, art and the creative process, Killing Commendatore moves between the known world and a complex underworld."--- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Portrait painters; Painting, Japanese;
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- Live fast : a novel / by Giraud, Brigitte,1960-author.; Stockwell, Cory,translator.; translation of:Giraud, Brigitte,1960-Vivre vite.English.;
Paced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud's tense and haunting novel follows one woman's quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41. The narrator of Live Fast recounts the chain of events that led up to the fateful accident, tracing the tiny, madden twists of fate that might have prevented its tragic outcome. Each chapter asks the rhetorical question, "what if," departing from an image or memory from early years meeting in Algeria during the war, to moving to the suburbs of Lyon, buying and renovating a home where they could "put down their suitcase for a whole life." A sensitive elegy to her husband and a subtle, precise vision of a lasting love, Live Fast is a moving and electrifying portrait of two people caught up in the mundane activities of life, forgetting that living itself can be dangerous.- Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Giraud, Brigitte, 1960-; Bereavement; Bereavement; Fate and fatalism; Motorcycling accidents;
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- Peacocks of Instagram : stories / by Rajagopalan, Deepa,author.;
"An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by her past attracts thousands of followers on social media with her peacock jewellery. A hotel housekeeper up against a world of gender and class inequity quietly gets revenge on her chauvinist boss. And a foster child, orphaned in an accident directly attributable to climate change, brings down her foster father, an oil lobbyist, in spectacular fashion. With an intense awareness of privilege and the lack of it, the fourteen stunning stories in Peacocks of Instagram explore what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home."--- Subjects: Short stories.; Baristas; Foster children; Revenge; Women;
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- Scooby-Doo and guess who?. [videorecording] / by DeLisle, Grey,voice actor.; Lillard, Matthew,1970-voice actor.; Micucci, Kate,voice actor.; Welker, Frank,voice actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci.The team is back and just as courageous, adventurous, humorous, and obsessed with cases like before. They are joined by celebrities in their adventures and ghost hunts and in search of puzzles to solve.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Scooby-Doo (Fictitious character); Criminal behavior; Criminal investigation; Detectives; Great Dane;
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- Devil Is Fine A Novel [electronic resource] : by Vercher, John.aut; Graham, Dion.nrt; cloudLibrary;
This program is read by award-winning narrator Dion Graham. "Devil Is Fine is self-deprecatingly tender, often bracingly hilarious, and at its heart is a runaway train through the haunted house of us. And I loved it. Don't miss it." —Dion Graham From acclaimed novelist John Vercher, a profoundly moving novel of what it means to be a father, a son, a writer, and a biracial American fighting to reconcile the past Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage son, our narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of immediately selling the land. But upon inspection, what lies beneath the dirt is much more than he can process in the throes of grief. As a biracial Black man struggling with the many facets of his identity, he’s now the owner of a former plantation passed down by the men on his white mother’s side of the family. Vercher deftly blurs the lines between real and imagined, past and present, tragedy and humor, and fathers and sons in this story of discovery—and a fight for reclamation—of a painful past. With the wit of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and the nuance of Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Devil Is Fine is a darkly funny and brilliantly crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behind and those we inherit. A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; African American; Magical Realism; Family Life;
- © 2024., Macmillan Audio,
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- Katharine, the Wright Sister A Novel [electronic resource] : by Wood, Tracey Enerson.aut; cloudLibrary;
A "stirring tribute to an unsung trailblazer" and "a gripping tale of perseverance." —Publishers Weekly She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall?  It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building as the brothers offered improved models to their eager customers. Amid their success, a new dream began to take shape. Engineers across the world were puzzling over how to build a powered flying machine—and Wilbur and Orville wanted in on the challenge. But their younger sister, Katharine, knew they couldn't do it without her. The three siblings made a pact: the three of them would solve the problem of human flight.  As her brothers obsessed over blueprints and risked life and limb testing new models on the sand beaches of North Carolina, Katharine became the mastermind behind the scenes of their inventions. She sourced materials, managed communications, and kept Wilbur and Orville focused on their goal—even when it seemed hopeless. And in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of humankind. What followed was the kind of fame and fortune the Wrights had never imagined. The siblings traveled the world to demonstrate their invention, trained other pilots, and built new machines that could fly higher and farther. But at the height of their success, tragedy wrenched the Wright family apart… and forced Katharine to make an impossible choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life.  From internationally bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katharine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Contemporary Women; Biographical; Historical;
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- The apparition [videorecording] / by Felton, Tom,1987-; Greene, Ashley,1987-; Heineman, Alex.; Lincoln, Todd.; Rona, Andrew.; Silver, Joel.; Stan, Sebastian,1983-; Dark Castle Entertainment (Firm); Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton.When frightening events start to occur in their home, a young couple Kelly and Ben discover they are being haunted by a presence that was accidentally conjured during a university parapsychology experiment. The horrifying apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run. Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural, Patrick, but even with his help they may already be too late to save themselves from this terrifying force.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.- Subjects: Apparitions; Feature films.; Haunted houses; Horror films.;
- © c2012., Warner Home Video,
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- American horror story. [videorecording] / by Britton, Connie.; Falchuk, Brad.; Farmiga, Taissa.; Lange, Jessica.; McDermott, Dylan.; Murphy, Ryan.; Peters, Evan,1987-; FX Networks, LLC.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Disc 1. Welcome to Briarcliff -- Tricks and treats -- Nor'easter.Disc 2. I am Anne Frank, part 1 -- I am Anne Frank, part 2 -- The origins of monstrosity -- Dark cousin.Disc 3. Unholy night -- The coat hanger -- The name game -- Spilt milk.Disc 4. Continuum -- Madness Ends.Jessica Lange, Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga.Step inside a madhouse of horror and experience the chilling new incarnation of TV's most daringly provocative series. The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner ... from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath known as Bloody Face.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, Dolby digital 5.1, dual-layer format, NTSC, region 1.- Subjects: Asylums; Demoniac possession; Families; Horror television programs.; Human-alien encounters; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatrists; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2013., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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- Scooby-Doo! [videorecording] : field of screams / by Hanna-Barbera Productions,production company.; Turner Entertainment Co,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),publisher.;
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma take in a game of soccer, but panic strikes when a mythical beast appears and threatens to end the game.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital mono.- Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Scooby-Doo (Fictitious character); Soccer; Supernatural; Paranormal fiction.; Monsters;
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