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A real pain [videorecording] / by Bosova, Olha,actor.; Culkin, Kieran,actor.; Eisenberg, Jesse,1983-screenwriter,film director,actor.; Puszcynska, Ewa,film producer.; Extreme Emotions (Firm),production company.; Fruit Tree (Firm),production company.; Rego Park (Firm),production company.; Searchlight Pictures,presenter.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Topic Studios,production company.;
Edited by Robert Nassau; director of photography Michal Dymek.Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Olha Bosova, Banner Eisenbert.Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language throughout and some drug use.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Buddy films.; Feature films.; Cousins; Family secrets; Male friendship; Families;
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The things we cannot say / by Rimmer, Kelly,author.;
From the author of 'Before I Let You Go', Kelly Rimmer, 'Things We Cannot Say' is a tragic loves story that reaches across the decades, told through alternating voices between present day and Nazi-occupied Poland. The story is a reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it. A Dewey Diva Pick
Subjects: Historical fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; Life change events;
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The resistance painter : a novel / by Jonathan, Kath,author.;
"1939. Irena Marianowka's dreams of attending art school in Paris are crushed when the Nazis invade Poland. Instead, she joins the Home Army and, together with her young husband, risks her life every day in the sewers of Warsaw. In 1944, after a harrowing mission, she returns home to learn that her sister, Lotta, has been abducted by the Gestapo. Determined to find her, Irena is willing to risk everything--all but the safety of her unit. 2011. Jo Blum lives in Toronto with her beloved grandmother, a lauded painter of WWII and a decorated war hero. Jo has a flourishing career creating sculptures for grave sites based on the life stories of her dying clients. Her recorded interviews with Stefan, her new Polish client, unveil a heroic wartime past eerily similar to her grandmother's. But Jo's quest to uncover the truth about Stefan and her grandmother opens an explosive Pandora's box with shockwaves that threaten all she has known. The Resistance Painter will resonate with fans of Woman with the Blue Star, The Book of Lost Names, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The German Girl, and The Dutch Wife, confronting the questions of the accuracy of the stories we tell about our lives and whether buried secrets stay buried."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Armia Krajowa; Grandmothers; Married people; Sisters; Survival; Women painters; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Uprising / by Nielsen, Jennifer A.;
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; Jews; Nazis;
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The extinction of Irena Rey : a novel / by Croft, Jenniferauthor.;
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime molds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets-and deceptions-of Irena Rey's that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. This hilarious, thought-provoking debut novel is a brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe's last great wildernesses.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Forests and forestry; Missing persons; Secrecy; Translators;
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Auschwitz report / by Levi, Primo; De Benedetti, Leonardo.; Gordon, Robert S. C.(Robert Samuel Clive),1966-;
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Monowitz (Concentration camp); Concentration camp inmates;
© c2006., Verso,
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The last checkmate : a novel / by Saab, Gabriella,author.;
Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz, but while her family is sent to their deaths, she is spared. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Karl Fritzsch, decides to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. However, once he tires of exploiting her skills, he has every intention of killing her. Befriended by a Catholic priest, Maria attempts to overcome her grief, vows to avenge the murder of her family, and plays for her life. For four grueling years, her strategy is simple: Live. Fight. Survive. By cleverly provoking Fritzsch's volatile nature in front of his superiors, Maria intends to orchestrate his downfall. Only then will she have a chance to evade the fate awaiting her and see him punished for his wickedness. As she carries out her plan and the war nears its end, she challenges her former nemesis to one final game, certain to end in life or death, in failure or justice. If Maria can bear to face Fritzsch--and her past--one last time.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Chess; Political prisoners; Revenge; World War, 1939-1945;
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Not nothing / by Forman, Gayle.;
When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life.Ages 10 up.
Subjects: Jewish fiction.; Self-esteem; Friendship; Old age; Holocaust survivors; Jews;
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The jar of fools : eight Hanukkah stories from Chelm / by Kimmel, Eric A.; Gerstein, Mordicai.;
Drawing on traditional Jewish folklore, these Hanukkah stories relate the antics of the people of Chelm, thought--perhaps incorrectly--to be a town of fools.
Subjects: Hanukkah; Jews; Short stories, Jewish.; Channukah; Hanukah; Fasts and feasts—Judaism;
© c2000., Holiday House,
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The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable / by Boyne, John,1971-;
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Subjects: Concentration camps; Friendship; Nazis; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Auschwitz (Concentration camp);
© 2008, c2006., David Fickling Books,
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