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The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen [electronic resource] : by Azar, Shokoofeh.aut; CloudLibrary;
From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades. Spanning fifty years in the history of modern Iran, this lush, layered story embraces politics and family, revolution and reconstruction, loss and love as it recounts the colorful destinies of twelve children who get lost one long-ago night inside a mysterious palace. Azar’s first novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Europa Editions, 2020), was shortlisted for the Stella Prize for Fiction and the International Booker Prize; it was longlisted for the PEN America Award and the National Book Award for Translated Literature. In Azar’s new novel, each lost child’s story unfolds against the backdrop of immense cultural and political transformation; lovers must survive war, revolution, and rigid social strictures to keep their love alive; family bonds are tested, especially those indissoluble connections between the living and the dead. The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen is also the moving story of one family’s efforts to preserve the richness of Iranian culture in the face of Islamic hegemony following the 1979 revolution.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Magical Realism; Sagas; Family Life;
© 2025., Europa Editions,
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Open season [videorecording (DVD)]. by Connolly, Billy; Favreau, Jon,1966-; Krakowski, Jane; Kutcher, Ashton,1978-; Lawrence, Martin,1965- ; Messing, Debra,1968-; Sinise, Gary; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);
Ashton Kutcher, Billy Connolly, Debra Messing, Gary Sinise, Jane Krakowski, Jon Favreau, Martin Lawrence.A performing grizzly bear finds himself out of his element when he is lost in the mountains during hunting season. When he meets a deer who helps him by teaching him how to live in the wild, he gets more than he bargains for.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Animated films; Bears; Children's films; Comedy films; Friendship; Video recordings for children; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c2006., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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This is how we love / by Moore, Lisa,1964-author.;
"As the snowstorm of the century rages toward Newfoundland, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. John's to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage--and of what she can't quite make out. While Xavier's story unfolds, so, too, do the stories that brought him there. Here, across families and generations, are stories of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers; of children cared for, neglected, lost, and re-found; of selfless generosity and reluctant debt. Above all, Moore, in the inimitable largesse of her art, paints a shimmering portrait of the sacrifice, pain, and wild joy of loving. A tour de force of storytelling and craft, This is How We Love brings us a cast of characters so rich and true they could only have been written by Lisa Moore."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Coma; Families; Love; Mothers; Parent and child; Storms;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The last unicorn [videorecording]. by Arkin, Alan; Bridges, Jeff; Farrow, Mia; Lansbury, Angela; Auberjonois, Rene;
Director, Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr..Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Rene Auberjonois.A lonely unicorn sets out on an extraordinary adventure to find her lost brothers and sisters. Special features include: The Tail of the Last Unicorn featurette, Escape the Red Bull game, Schmendrick's Magical Gallery, and more.OFRB rating: F.DVD.
Subjects: Children's.; Children's films.; Animated.; Family Films.;
© 2007., Shout! Factory,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Echo : a novel / by Ryan, Pam Muñoz.; Mirtalipova, Dinara.;
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.LSC
Subjects: Harmonica; Music; Fate and fatalism; Families; Family life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Amazonia [videorecording] / by Ragobert, Thierry.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Capuchin monkeys; Children's films.; Feature films.; Feature films.; Jungle animals; Video recordings for children.;
© c2014., Distributed by Entertainment One,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wayfinding : the science and mystery of how humans navigate the world / by O'Connor, M. R.,1982-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision -- especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O'Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place"--
Subjects: Orientation (Physiology); Space perception.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lost English girl / by Kelly, Julia,1986-author.;
"Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family. Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside estate of the affluent Thompson family. In New York City, Joshua gives up his failing musical career to serve in the Royal Air Force, fight for his country, and try to piece together his feelings about the family, wife, and daughter he left behind at eighteen. However, tragedy strikes when Viv learns that the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn't immune from the horrors of war. It is only years later, with Joshua's help, that Viv learns the secrets of their shared past and what it will take to put a family back together again. Telling the harrowing story of England's many evacuated children, bestselling author Julia Kelly's The Lost English Girl explores how one simple choice can change the course of a life, and what we are willing to forgive to find a way back to the ones we love and thought lost"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Families; Man-woman relationships; Mothers; Secrecy; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Zoom. by Hewitt, Peter,film director.; Chase, Chevy,actor.; Cox, Courteney,actor.; Mara, Kate,actor.; Breslin, Spencer,actor.; Allen, Tim,actor.; Revolution Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Chevy Chase, Courteney Cox, Kate Mara, Spencer Breslin, Tim AllenOriginally produced by Revolution Studios in 2006.Tim Allen plays Jack, formerly Captain Zoom, an out-of-shape former superhero who has lost his powers. Jack is reluctantly called back into action to turn a rag-tag group of kids into a new generation of super heroes to save the world from certain destruction. Based on the children's book "Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy" by Jason Lethcoe.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy.; Science fiction.; Action and adventure films.;
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Ender's game [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Kingsley, Ben; Ford, Harrison; Breslin, Abigail; Davis, Viola; Steinfeld, Hailee; Butterfield, Asa; Arias, Moises; Knight, Aramis; Partha, Suraj;
Director, Gavin Hood.Viola Davis, Moises Arias, Aramis Knight, Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfield, Suraj Partha, Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley.A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.OFRB rating: PG.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Sci-Fi.; Action / Adventure.; Sci-Fi.;
© 2014., Seville,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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