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Redemption trail [videorecording] / by Hamilton, Lisa Gay,1964-; Rabe, Lily,1982-; Sjogren, Britta.; Weber, Jake,1964-; Breaking Glass Pictures (Firm);
Lily Rabe, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Jake Weber, Hamish Linklater.Two powerful, but deeply troubled women who are refugees from political and personal trauma flee a past that haunts them. The very difference between the two women opens them up to a new vision of themselves as heroes capable of a thrilling shoot-out in the name of outlaw justice.PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Female friendship; Shooters of firearms; Vigilantes; Women refugees;
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The nightmare before Christmas [videorecording] / by Burton, Tim,1958-screenwriter,film producer.; Elfman, Danny,voice actor.; Lee, Christopher,1922-2015,voice actor.; O'Hara, Catherine,voice actor.; Reubens, Paul,1952-voice actor.; Sarandon, Chris,voice actor.; Selick, Henry,film director.; Thompson, Caroline,1956-screenwriter.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Disney Enterprises (1996- ),production company.; Walt Disney Company,production company.; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Paul 'Pee Wee Herman' Reubens, Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'hara, William Hickey, Ken Page.Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown, gets bored and kidnaps Santa after he learns of the wonder of Christmas. Digitally restored and remastered.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for some scary images.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Clay animation films.; Christmas films.; Feature films.; Santa Claus; Christmas; Good and evil; Halloween; Kidnapping;
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Oil people : a novel / by Huebert, David,author.;
"Weaving together family saga, gothic myth, and eco-fiction, Oil People is an audacious debut novel about history and family, land and power, and oil as both contaminant and an object of wonder. It's 1987, and thirteen-year-old Jade Armbruster lives with her parents and older sister on their family petroleum museum--an old and decaying property that their father is desperately trying to sell. While she tries to live out a normal teenage existence, avoiding her best-friend-turned-nemesis and vying for the attention of a cute farmer boy, the oil swirling beneath her family's home has left a mark on all of them. For Jade, it appears as a haunting yet familiar presence that she can't quite place. It's 1862, and Clyde Armbruster catches his big break, striking Lambton County's first gusher and helping to form a community that will be known as Oil Springs. The discovery brings wealth and opportunity to him and his wife, but his daily proximity to oil leaves him infertile and may be the cause of his periodic hallucinatory visions of a red-haired girl in strange clothing. At the same time, Clyde and his wife develop a tense friendship with their eccentric and wealthy neighbours, a relationship that promises even more success until a fateful moment intertwines the two families forever, locking them into a bitter rivalry that lasts generations. As the two narratives twist and tangle together, family secrets and deceits are slowly unveiled, and the slick and lucid spectre of oil seeps off the page, revealing a portrait of a world and a land physically bleeding from the actions of the greedy and powerful. Intense and visceral, agile and lyrical, Oil People signals the arrival of a profound and vital voice."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Sagas.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Petroleum industry and trade; Secrecy;
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Insurgent [videorecording] / by James, Theo,1984-actor.; Schwentke, Robert,1968-director.; Trapanese, Joseph.; Winslet, Kate,actor.; Woodley, Shailene,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Roth, Veronica.Insurgent.Videorecording.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Summit Entertainment,publisher.;
Cinematography, Florian Ballhaus ; production designer, Alec Hammond ; editors, Stuart Levy, Nancy Richardson ; music, Joseph Trapanese.Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Mekhi Phifer.As war surges in the dystopian society around her, Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves, and herself, while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Roth, Veronica.; Action and adventure films.; Courage; Dystopian films.; Families; Feature films.; Identity; Social classes;
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Seeds of yesterday [videorecording] / by Andrews, V. C.(Virginia C.).Seeds of yesterday.Videorecording.; Carpani, Rachael,1980-; Ku, Shawn.; Lewis, Jason,1971-; Maslow, James,1990-; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm);
Rachael Carpani, James Maslow, Jason Lewis.The Dollangangers continue to coexist miserably, as their deeply troubled relationships, dark secrets, and tragedies come to a head in a way that will haunt the family and its progeny forever.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Made-for-TV movies.; Revenge;
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A rainy day in New York [videorecording] / by Allen, Woody,1935-film director.; Chalamet, Timothée,actor.; Fanning, Elle,1998-actor.; Gomez, Selena,1992-actor.; Schreiber, Liev,actor.; MPI Media Group,publisher.;
Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Liev Schreiber, Jude Law, Diego Luna, Rebecca Hall.Woody Allen's romantic comedy tells the story of college sweethearts, Gatsby and Ashleigh, whose plans for a romantic weekend together in New York City are dashed as quickly as the sunlight turns into showers. When Ashleigh gets an assignment from the school paper to interview celebrated film director Roland Pollard in Manhattan, Gatsby seizes the opportunity to show Arizona-bred Ashleigh his favorite haunts in his home city.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; College students; Man-woman relationships;
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Sea prayer / by Hosseini, Khaled,author.; Williams, Dan,illustrator.;
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages, all over the world. A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution, and he will donate author proceeds from this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe."--
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Fathers and sons;
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We, the kindling / by Okot Bitek, Juliane,1966-author.;
"A concise, searing novel centred around the unforgettable voices of schoolgirls in Uganda who survive capture by the Lord's Resistance Army. In northern Uganda in the 1990s, girls as young as eleven were abducted from schools and homes by the Lord's Resistance Army and thrust into the horrors of war. Facing long, perilous treks, gun battles, and underage marriages, while forced to be pawns in political machinations they did not understand, many did not survive. Those who did make it through continue to bear the physical and psychological weight of these terrors. As We, the Kindling begins, we meet Miriam and Helen, two survivors who are now in their twenties but haunted by their years in forced servitude to the Army. In spare, graceful, yet unflinching prose the novel weaves past with present, layering folk tales with taut realism to reveal the rhythm of the girls' lives before the war, unspooling the circumstances of their abductions and tracing their harrowing journeys home again. Reminiscent of The Buddha in the Attic, this is a luminous novel, full of life and care, that insistently refuses to spectacularize brutality and tragedy."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Lord's Resistance Army; Abduction; Slavery; Survival; Young women;
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Among ghosts / by Hartman, Rachel,1972-author.;
"A few things to know about the town of St. Muckle's: It's too out-of-the-way to interest greedy lords, and too damp and muddy for marauding dragons to burn. And anyone, from a humble serf to a runaway nun, may earn their freedom by living for a year and a day within the town walls. Seven years ago, Charl and his mother fled to St. Muckle's and made it their safe-haven, building a new life in this so-called Peasant's Paradise. But when Charl sees something impossible -- a ghost -- soon the embers of his past are threatening to engulf his world in flame. A tragic accident is quickly followed by murder, a deadly plague, and a mercenary dragon. Charl manages to escape to an abandoned abbey outside of town, but finds no safety within those ruined walls. A treacherous nun, a chorus of murdered girls, and the fearsome Battle Bishop await, ready to ensnare him in a complex web of history, magic, and fate. For some things should never be forgotten, however much they haunt us, and Charl will need all his wisdom and resiliency if he is to fight for the world he knows ... and the people he calls home."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Dragons; Ghosts; Magic; Murder; Dragons; Ghosts; Magic; Murder;
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Fire exit : a novel / by Talty, Morgan,1991-author.;
"From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life - from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal community. It's the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep. Now, it's been weeks since he's seen Elizabeth, and Charles is worried. As he attempts to hold on to and care for what he can - his home and property; his alcoholic, quick-tempered, and bighearted friend Bobby; and his mother, Louise, who is slipping ever deeper into dementia - he becomes increasingly haunted by his past. Forced to confront a lost childhood on the reservation, a love affair cut short, and the death of his beloved stepfather, Fredrick, in a hunting accident - a death he and Louise are at odds over as to where to lay blame - Charles contends with questions he's long been afraid to ask. Is his secret about Elizabeth his to share? And would his daughter want to know the truth, even if it could cost her everything she's ever known?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Secrecy;
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