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Woman of light : a novel / by Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,author.;
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader, and Diego is a snake charmer. One day, a pale-faced woman in white fur asks Luz for a reading, calling her by a name that only her brother knows. Later that night at a party downtown, Luz sees Diego dancing with this pale-faced woman, which results in a brawl with the local white supremacist group. Diego leaves town for cover and Luz is left trying to get justice for her brother and family. Merging two multi-generational storylines in Colorado, this is a novel of family love, secrets, and survival. With Fajardo-Anstine's immense capacity to render characters and paint vivid life, set against the Sange de Cristo mountians, Woman of Light is full of the weight, richness, and complexities of mixed blood and mica clay. It delights like an Old Western, and inspires the hope embedded in histories yet-told"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Carnivals; Fortune-telling by tea leaves; Hispanic American families; Hispanic American women; Racism; Women prophets;
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Chanukah lights everywhere / by Rosen, Michael J.,1954-; Iwai, Melissa.;
A young boy counts the candles on the family menorah and the lights he sees in the world around him on each night of Hanukkah. Includes information on the history and significance of the celebration."Ages 3 to 7"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Hanukkah stories.; Jews; Hanukkah; Channukah; Hanukah; Fasts and feasts—Judaism; Counting books.;
© 2006, c2001., Harcourt,
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The Language of Light. by Cochrane, Fiona,film director.; Ronin Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Ronin Films in 2023.Intimate portraits of seven ground-breaking Australian photographers, each with a significant body of work and each with a different photographic style.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Photography.; Arts.; Australians.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Current affairs.; Women photographers.; Australia.; Art and architecture.;
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The light between worlds / by Weymouth, Laura E.;
Six years ago, when sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter, they were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years in a forest out of myth and legend. When they returned to their lives in post-WWII England, no time had passed and nothing had changed--except themselves. Now Evelyn is desperate to return, while Philippa just wants to move on. But when Ev goes missing, Philippa must confront the depth of her sister<U+2019>s despair and the painful truths they<U+2019>ve been running from.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Sisters; Missing persons; Loss (Psychology); Imaginary places;
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The light between oceans [videorecording] / by Cianfrance, Derek,film director,screenwriter.; Fassbender, Michael,1977-actor.; Thompson, Jack,1940-actor.; Vikander, Alicia,1988-actor.; Weisz, Rachel,1971-actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Stedman, M. L.Light between oceans.; Dreamworks Pictures,publisher.; Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Jack Thompson.A lighthouse keeper, living off the coast of Australia with his wife, finds a baby on an adrift rowboat. They rescue and raise the child as their own, changing their lives and that of a stranger.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA Rating: PG-13; for thematic material and some sexual content.DVD; NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Region 1; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Stedman, M. L.; Foundlings; Lighthouse keepers; Married people;
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The light of Paris / by Brown, Eleanor,1973-author.;
"Madeleine is trapped--by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears--in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been--elegant, reserved, perfect. But when Madeleine finds a diary detailing Margie's bold, romantic trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets the grandmother she never knew: a dreamer who defied her strict, staid family and spent an exhilarating summer writing in cafes, living on her own, and falling for a charismatic artist. Despite her unhappiness, when Madeleine's marriage is threatened, she panics, escaping to her hometown and staying with her critical, disapproving mother. In that unlikely place, shaken by the revelation of a long-hidden family secret and inspired by her grandmother's bravery, Madeleine creates her own Parisian summer--reconnecting to her love of painting, cultivating a vibrant circle of creative friends, and finding a kindred spirit in a down-to-earth chef who reminds her to feed both her body and her heart. Margie and Madeleine's stories intertwine to explore the joys and risks of living life on our own terms, of defying the rules that hold us back from our dreams, and of becoming the people we are meant to be"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Married women; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Self-realization in women;
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Blinded by the light [videorecording] / by Atwell, Hayley,1982-actor.; Brydon, Rob,1965-actor.; Chadha, Gurinder,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Chapman, Dean-Charles,1997-actor.; Ghir, Kulvinder,actor.; Kalra, Viveik,actor.; Manzoor, Sarfraz,1971-screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Manzoor, Sarfraz,1971-Greetings from Bury Park.; Phagura, Aaron,actor.; Williams, Nell,actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Viveik Kalra, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Kulvinder Ghir, Nell Williams, Dean-Charles Chapman, Aaron Phagura.Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Rock music; Pakistanis; Teenagers;
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The mirror & the light / by Mantel, Hilary,1952-author.; sequel to:Mantel, Hilary,1952-Bring up the bodies.;
""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540;
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Tiny lights for travellers / by Lewis, Naomi K.,1976-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 281)."When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved grandfather's escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi K. Lewis decides to retrace his journey to learn about her family history. Despite suffering from extreme disorientation and a lifetime of anxiety, she travels alone for the first time. Moving from Amsterdam to Lyon--relying on the marvels of GPS--she discovers family secrets and her own narrative as a second-generation Jewish Canadian. With vulnerability, humour, and wisdom, Lewis's memoir asks tough questions about her identity as a secular Jew, the accuracy of family stories, and the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. How do immigrants weave their sense of identity into their chosen countries? Must we be able to locate ourselves within family and cultural geography to belong?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Lewis, Naomi K., 1976-; Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors; Identity (Psychology); Intergenerational relations.; Jews; Jews, Canadian; Judaism and secularism.; Jews, Canadian;
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Days of light : a novel / by Hunter, Megan,1984-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. Her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather in the idyllic English countryside for lunch, arranging themselves around well-worn roles. They trade political views and artistic arguments as they impatiently await the arrival and first sight of Frances, the new beau of Ivy's beloved older brother, Joseph. In this auspicious atmosphere of springtime, Ivy's world feels on the cusp of something grand -- but neither she nor those closest to her predicts how a single, enchanted evening and an unexpected tragedy will alter the rest of their lives. A radiant, philosophical, and intimate journey through time, Days of Light chronicles six pivotal days across six decades to tell the story of Ivy's pursuit of answers -- to the events of this fateful Easter Sunday and to the shifting desires of her own heart. Moving through the Second World War up to the close of the 20th century, Hunter captures the galvanic love and transformative moments that define a winding, beautiful life."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Desire; Faith; Families; Friendship; Life change events; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons;
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