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Broken [videorecording] / by Conway, Craig,film producer,actor,screenwriter.; Raido, Mel,1977-actor.; Smith, Shaun Robert,film director,screenwriter.; Alaoui, Morjana,actor.; E1 Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Craig Conway, Mel Raido, Morjana Alaoui.The story of a young Parisian woman, Evie, who absconds to England to make a fresh start after surviving a harrowing upbringing. Evie takes a job at an agency and is quickly placed with a former rock star tetraplegic patient, John. Drunk and high, John and his friends make Evie's life a living hell and she finds herself trapped and the center of aggressive drunk attention.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adult child abuse victims; People with disabilities; Rock musicians;
For private home use only.
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The accidental further adventures of the hundred-year old man / by Jonasson, Jonas,1961-author.; Willson-Broyles, Rachel,translator.; Jonasson, Jonas,1961-Hundraettåringen som tänkte att han tänkte för mycket.English.;
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harboring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Soon Allan and Julius are at the center of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Needless to say, things are about to get very, very complicated.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Older people; World politics; Diplomacy; Illegal arms transfers;
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Johnny Careless : a novel / by Wade, Kevin,author.;
"Police Chief Jeep Mullane has been bounced back home to Long Island's North Shore by a heartbreaking case that both earned him his NYPD detective's shield and burned him out of the Job. Now heading up a small local police department, he finds himself navigating the same geography he did growing up there as the son of an NYPD cop. Jeep is a "have-not" among the glittering "haves," a sharp-witted, down-to-earth man in a territory defined and ruled by multigenerational wealth and power and the daunting tribal codes and customs that come with it. When the corpse of Jeep's childhood friend Johnny Chambliss-born into privilege and known as "Johnny Careless" for his reckless, golden-boy antics-surfaces in the Bayville waters, past collides with present, and Jeep is pulled into a treacherous web. He is challenged by Johnny's wealthy and secretive family and his beautiful, enigmatic ex-wife as he untangles a knotted mystery fraught with theft, corrupt local moguls, and decades-old secrets, all while grappling with his own deep-seated grief for his lost pal."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Family secrets; Murder; Police chiefs; Rich people;
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The heart goes last / by Atwood, Margaret,1939-author.;
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around--and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in ... for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
Subjects: Dystopias.; Man-women relationships; Married people; Prisons; Regression (Civilization);
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Mrs. Quinn's rise to fame / by Ford, Olivia,author.;
"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence. But that independence, and the stress of the competition, starts to unearth memories buried decades ago. Chocolate teacakes remind her of a furtive errand involving a wedding ring; sugared doughnuts call up a stranger's kind act; a simple cottage loaf brings back the moment her life changed forever. With her baking star rising, Jenny struggles to keep a lid on that first secret--a long-concealed deceit that threatens to shatter the very foundations of her marriage. It's the only time in six decades that she's kept something from Bernard. By putting herself in the limelight, has Jenny created a recipe for disaster?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Married people; Older women; Secrecy; Television cooking shows;
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Before she knew him : a novel / by Swanson, Peter,1968-author.;
Hen and her husband, Lloyd, have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she's found some stability and peace. But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband's office shelf. The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because she's long had a fascination with this unsolved murder - an obsession she doesn't talk about anymore, but can't fully shake either. Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate? The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he's planning something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows she's been watching him, that she's really on to him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape ...
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Married people; Manic-depressive persons; Neighbors; Murder;
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The golden gate / by Chua, Amy,author.;
"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco. Some say she haunts the Claremont still. The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining Bainbridge heiresses, now adults: Iris's sister, Isabella, and her cousins Cassie and Nicole. Determined not to let anything distract him from the truth-not the powerful influence of Bainbridges' grandmother, or the political aspirations of Berkeley's district attorney, or the interest of China's First Lady Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in his findings-Sullivan follows his investigation to its devastating conclusion. Chua's page-turning debut brings to life a historical era rife with turbulent social forces and groundbreaking forensic advances, when race and class defined the very essence of power, sex, and justice, and introduces a fascinating character in Detective Sullivan, a mixed race former Army officer who is still reckoning with his own history"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Presidential candidates; Racially mixed people;
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Matoaka : the true story of Pocahontas / by Metchooyeah, Jillian.; Nordstrom, Nicole.;
Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the amazing life of Matoaka, better known today as Pocahontas, with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress.
Subjects: Biographies.; Readers (Publications); Pocahontas, -1617; Powhatan women; Powhatan Indians; Indigenous peoples;
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The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America / by Pearl, Matthew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In his first work of narrative non-fiction, Matthew Pearl explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boones daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. From the author of 'The Dante Chamber'.
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820; Frontier and pioneer life; Indigenous peoples; Kidnapping.;
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King Charles III. by Pirnia, Tara,film director.; Vision Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Vision Films in 2023.Prince Charles was always destined to wear the crown. From the royal childhood in Buckingham Palace to his naval career and life as the Prince of Wales, he’s had his successes and hardships. From a young prince to now the king, he’s been a constant in the British royal family, hoping one day not only to wear the crown, but to usher the British royals into a new modern era as King Charles III.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; Biography.;
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