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Lurkers / by Tan, Sandi,author.;
"In a suburban LA neighborhood, a group of neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by loneliness, desire, fury, and sorrow. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; an aging gay horror novelist fights loneliness; and a white mother and her adopted Vietnamese daughter deal with lifelong anger issues. Spanning decades, and bringing together a diverse and interlocking group of stories, Lurkers is a Los Angeles masterpiece, showing Sandi Tan's fiction to be as formidable and exciting as her filmmaking"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Neighbors;
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A history of my brief body : a memoir / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A profound meditation on queerness and indigeneity from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Billy-Ray Belcourt begins A History of My Brief Body with a letter to his nohkom, his grandmother. "In the world-to-come," he writes, "everyone is loved by an NDN woman like you whose soft voice reminds us that we can stop running now." What follows is a charting of the distance between the world he was born into and the world he wants--a book as beautiful as it is devastating. Reflecting on his personal history, Belcourt maps his "un-Canadian and otherworldly" desire to love at all costs. We're taken to his birthplace in Joussard, in northern Alberta, where he and his twin brother come to exemplify opposites: hard and soft, masculine and feminine. To his high school graduation, where a hug from his father teaches him how to hold and be held. To a hotel room in Edmonton, where destroying the photographic evidence of his adolescence is an act of self-abolition and of making himself anew. Blending memoir and essay, and with a poet's delight in language, A History of My Brief Body is both a grappling with a legacy of trauma and a record of the joy that flourishes in spite of it."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray; Gay men; Sexual minorities; Indigenous peoples; Poets, Canadian (English);
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House fires / by Franta, Connor,1992-author.;
Writing about confusion and clarity, loneliness and whirlwind romances, despair and elation - and everything in between - Connor Franta invites readers into the intimacy of his mind. 'House Fires' magnifies Franta's emotional warfare with his past, the daze of wandering through modern times in search of purpose, and the electricity flying from tomorrows potential. From the author of 'A Work in Progress' and 'Note to Self'.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Franta, Connor, 1992-; Actors; Philanthropists; Businesspeople;
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Sophie Go's lonely hearts club / by Lim, Roselle,author.;
"A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made difficult when she is revealed as a fraud: she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast. In dire search of clients, Sophie stumbles upon a secret club within her condo complex: the Old Ducks, seven septuagenarian Chinese bachelors who never found love. Somehow, she convinces them to hire her, but her matchmaking skills are put to the test as she learns the depths of loneliness, heartbreak, and love by attempting to make the hardest matches of her life"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Chick lit.; Novels.; Chinese Canadians; Chinese; Dating services; Homecoming; Man-woman relationships; Older men;
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Some days / by Orloff, Karen Kaufman.; Chen, Ziyue.;
"Come along and follow a year in the life of a young boy and girl as they discover their many different and ever-changing emotions, including joy, fear, anger, jealousy, excitement, pride, disappointment, loneliness, and contentment. As children read about "angels in the snow days" as well as "need my mommy now days," they'll begin to understand how to cope with both positive and negative feelings."--www.worldcat.org.LSC
Subjects: Emotions in children;
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No regrets : how to live today for tomorrow's emotional well-being / by Howatt, William A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE CURE FOR LONELINESS, ISBN 9781774580004. We all live with the decisions we make every day so how do we start making better choices? In this third installment of his 'Break Through' series, Dr. Bill Howatt gives you the five ingredients that will strengthen your mental fitness today, so you can be prepared to take on the challenges life will throw at you. Dr. Howatt lives in Ottawa, ON.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Adjustment (Psychology); Mental health.; Resilience (Personality trait); Success.;
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Anne of Green Gables. [videorecording] / by Ballentine, Ella,2001-actor.; Botsford, Sara,1951-actor.; Corston, Jim,film producer.; Harrison, John Kent,film director.; Coyne, Susan,screenwriter.; Sheen, Martin,actor.; television adaptation of (work):Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables.; Breakthrough Entertainment (Firm),presenter.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Lawrence Shragge ; editors, Ron Wisman, Ron Wisman Jr. ; director of photography, Mitchell T. Ness.Ella Ballentine, Sara Botsford, Martin Sheen.Anne Shirley earns a spot at Queen's College in far-off Charlottetown, but when Anne departs, Matthew and Marilla feel a sudden emptiness in their lives. And in Charlottetown, Anne is overwhelmed by loneliness, city life, and the pressure of intense competition-especially from Gilbert Blythe. Facing difficult choices, will Anne find that the dark cloud over her life does have a silver lining?G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Made-for-TV movies.; Children's television programs.; Television adaptations.; Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character); Orphans;
For private home use only.
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The mistletoe secret / by Evans, Richard Paul,author.;
"The master of the holiday novel presents the moving story of two people who brave loneliness and loss to find love. Dear Universe, Is anyone out there? Thinking no one is reading, a blogger who calls herself LBH writes about her most personal feelings, especially her overwhelming loneliness. She goes from day to day showing a brave face to the world while inside she longs to know how it would feel if one person cared about her. Alex Bartlett cares. He's reading her posts in Daytona Beach, Florida. Nursing his own broken heart and trust issues, he finds himself falling for this sensitive, vulnerable woman whose feelings mirror his own. Following a trail of clues LBH has inadvertently revealed, he discovers that she lives in the small town of Midway, Utah. He makes his way there just after Thanksgiving, determined to find LBH. Maybe she's a Lisa, Lori, or a Luanne. Instead, he finds a woman named Aria, a waitress at the Mistletoe Diner, who encourages Alex in his search while serving his pie along with some much-needed sympathy and companionship. Alex finally finds his LBH, a woman who is as beautiful and kind as he imagined she would be. How can he tell her that he knows her secret? What's holding him back? Could it be his feelings for Aria?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Holidays; Christmas;
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His Majesty's airship : the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine / by Gwynne, S. C.(Samuel C.),1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. R101 was not just the largest aircraft ever to have flown and the product of the world's most advanced engineering--she was also the lynchpin of an imperial British scheme to link by air the far-flung areas of its empire from Australia to India, South Africa, Canada, Egypt, and Singapore. No one had ever conceived of anything like this. R101 captivated the world. There was just one problem: beyond the hype and technological wonders, these big, steel-framed, hydrogen-filled airships were a dangerously bad idea. Gwynne's chronicle features a cast of remarkable--and often tragically flawed--characters, including Lord Christopher Thomson, the man who dreamed up the Imperial Airship Scheme and then relentlessly pushed R101 to her destruction; Princess Marthe Bibesco, the celebrated writer and glamorous socialite with whom he had a long affair; and Herbert Scott, a national hero who had made the first double crossing of the Atlantic in any aircraft in 1919--eight years before Lindbergh's famous flight--but who devolved into drink and ruin. These historical figures--and the ship they built, flew, and crashed--come together in a grand tale that details the rocky road to commercial aviation written by one of the best popular historians writing today"--
Subjects: Thomson, Christopher Birdwood, Baron, 1875-1930.; R101 (Airship); Air travel; Aircraft accidents; Airships;
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His Majesty's airship [sound recording] : the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine / by Gwynne, S. C.(Samuel C.),1953-author.; Boulton, Nicholas,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Nicholas Boulton."The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. R101 was not just the largest aircraft ever to have flown and the product of the world's most advanced engineering--she was also the lynchpin of an imperial British scheme to link by air the far-flung areas of its empire from Australia to India, South Africa, Canada, Egypt, and Singapore. No one had ever conceived of anything like this. R101 captivated the world. There was just one problem: beyond the hype and technological wonders, these big, steel-framed, hydrogen-filled airships were a dangerously bad idea. Gwynne's chronicle features a cast of remarkable--and often tragically flawed--characters, including Lord Christopher Thomson, the man who dreamed up the Imperial Airship Scheme and then relentlessly pushed R101 to her destruction; Princess Marthe Bibesco, the celebrated writer and glamorous socialite with whom he had a long affair; and Herbert Scott, a national hero who had made the first double crossing of the Atlantic in any aircraft in 1919--eight years before Lindbergh's famous flight--but who devolved into drink and ruin. These historical figures--and the ship they built, flew, and crashed--come together in a grand tale that details the rocky road to commercial aviation written by one of the best popular historians writing today"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Thomson, Christopher Birdwood, Baron, 1875-1930.; R101 (Airship); Air travel; Aircraft accidents; Airships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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