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Rumours [videorecording] / by Amuka-Bird, Nikki,1976-actor.; Blanchett, Cate,1969-actor.; Dance, Charles,actor.; Dupuis, Roy,1963-actor.; Johnson, Evan,1983-film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Johnson, Galen,film producer,film director.; Maddin, Guy,1956-film director.; Decal (Firm),publisher.;

Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira.A genre-hopping political-satire-cum-horror-comedy starring Cate Blanchett, Rumours follows leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit as they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis and are suddenly beset by a host of absurd terrors, including a giant brain and hordes of menacing bog men.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Dark comedy films.; Horror films.; Political films.; Feature films.; G7 Summit; Heads of state; Monsters; Politicians;

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The White Lotus. [videorecording] / by Bartlett, Murray,1971-actor.; Britton, Connie,actor.; Coolidge, Jennifer,actor.; Daddario, Alexandra,1986-actor.; Hechinger, Fred,actor.; Lacy, Jake,actor.; O'Grady, Brittany,1996-actor.; Rothwell, Natasha,1980-actor.; Sweeney, Sydney,1997-actor.; Zahn, Steve,1968-actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;

Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Fred Hechinger, Jake Lacy, Brittany O'Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney, Steve Zahn.A social satire set at an exclusive tropical resort, this limited series follows the exploits of various guests and employees over one highly transformative week. Checking into the luxurious White Lotus is a group of vacationers who run roughshod over the resort manager and head of spa services. As darker dynamics emerge with each passing day, this biting six-episode limited series gradually reveals the complex truths of the seemingly picture-perfect travelers, cheerful hotel employees, and idyllic locale itself.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Television comedies.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Hospitality; Resorts; Resorts; Vacations;

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Jojo Rabbit [videorecording] / by Davis, Roman Griffin,actor.; Field, Luke Brandon,actor.; Johansson, Scarlett,1984-actor.; McKenzie, Thomasin,2000-actor.; Rockwell, Sam,actor.; Waititi, Taika,film director,screenwriter.; Wilson, Rebel,actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,film distributor.;

Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin Mckenzie, Taika Waititi, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Luke Brandon Field.A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose worldview is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 DVS.

Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; War films.; Satirical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; Imaginary companions; Single mothers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Nationalism;

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Mania [text (large print)] : a novel / by Shriver, Lionel,author.;

"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can ... until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--

Subjects: Large print books.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Discrimination; Intelligence levels; Personality and intelligence; Trust;

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The Society of Shame / by Roper, Jane,1974-author.;

"In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale. Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his underwear. But the scandal that emerges is not that Bill, who's running for Senate, is having a painfully cliched affair with one of his young staffers: it's that the eyewitness photographing the scene accidentally captures a period stain on the back of Kathleen's pants. Overnight, Kathleen finds herself the unwitting figurehead for a social media-centered women's right movement, #YesWeBleed. Humiliated, Kathleen desperately seeks a way to hide from the spotlight. But when she stumbles upon the Society of Shame--led by the infamous author Danica Bellevue--Kathleen finds herself part of a group who are all working to change their lives after their own scandals. Using the teachings of the society, Kathleen channels her newfound fame as a means to reap the benefits of her humiliation and reclaim herself. But as she ascends to celebrity status, Kathleen's growing obsession with maintaining her popularity online threatens her most important relationship IRL: that with her budding activist daughter, Aggie. Hilarious and heartfelt, The Society of Shame is a pitch-perfect romp through politics and the perils of being "extremely online"-without losing your sanity or your true self"--

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Internet personalities; Mothers and daughters; Politicians' spouses; Women political activists;

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Sufferance : a novel / by King, Thomas,1943-author.;

"Jeremiah Camp, aka The Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn't expected to see, has come away from the abyss with no hope for himself or for the future. So, he does what any intelligent, sensitive person would do. He runs away. Goes into hiding in a small town, at an old residential school on an even smaller Indian reserve, with no phone, no internet, no television. The windows shut, the door locked, the mailbox removed to discourage any connection with the world, he feels safe at last. Except nobody told the locals that they were to leave Jeremiah alone. And then his past comes calling. Ash Locken, the head of the Locken Group, the multi-national consortium that Jeremiah has fled, arrives on his doorstep with a simple proposition. She wants our hero to formulate one more forecast, and she's not about to take no for an answer. Before he left the Locken empire, Jeremiah had created a list of twelve names for Ash's father, Thomas Locken. Billionaires, every one. The problem is, the people on the list are dying, at an alarming and unnatural rate. And Ash Locken wants to know why. A sly and satiric look at the fractures in modern existence, Sufferance is a bold and provocative novel about the social and political consequences of the inequality created by privilege and power -- and what we might do about it."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Visions; Precognition; Rich people; Indigenous reservations;

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Bury Your Gays [electronic resource] : by Tingle, Chuck.aut; Santana, André.nrt; Anders, Charlie Jane.nrt; Leede, CJ.nrt; Bird, Georgia.nrt; Kerin, Liz.nrt; Wilson, Mara.nrt; Oshiro, Mark.nrt; Gailey, Sarah.nrt; Jones, Stephen Graham.nrt; Kingfisher, T..nrt; Klune, TJ.nrt; cloudLibrary;

This program features multicast narration. "André Santana brings a personable feel to this satirical sci-fi romp.... This audiobook is a fast-paced cocktail of social commentary, humor, and horror." —AudioFile on Straight Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead. "Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts." —Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles. Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good. Also by Chuck Tingle Camp Damascus A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Science Fiction; Horror;

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Banal nightmare : a novel / by Butler, Halle,author.;

""Margaret Anne ("Moddie") Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in touch with her roots, and to recover from a stressful decade of living in the city in a small apartment with a man she now believed to be a megalomaniac or perhaps a covert narcissist." So begins Banal Nightmare, Halle Butler's tour de force that follows Moddie as she throws herself at the mercy of her old friends who never left their hometown. Friends who all seemingly work at the local liberal arts college, who are all suddenly tipping toward middle age, going to parties, sizing each other up, obsessing over past slights, and dreaming of wild triumphs couched in elaborate revenge fantasies. When her friend Pam invites a mysterious New York artist to take up a winter residency in town, Moddie has no choice but to confront a trauma from her past and grapple with the reality of what her life has become. As the day of reckoning approaches, friends will become enemies, enemies will become mortal enemies, and the bonds forged in childhood will be tested to their extreme"--

Subjects: Satirical literature.; Novels.; Small cities; City and town life; Revenge;

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I walk between the raindrops : stories / by Boyle, T. Coraghessan,author.;

In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And "Hyena" begins simply: "That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit--it was there and it came for him." A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.

Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Short stories.;

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Lake Success [sound recording] : a novel / by Shteyngart, Gary,1972-author.; Morey, Arthur,narrator.; Nankani, Soneela,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;

Read by Arthur Morey and Soneela Nankani."When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth. Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3 year-old-son's diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart, whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in years. Meanwhile, reeling from the fight that caused Barry's departure, his super-smart wife Seema -- a driven first-generation American who craved a picture-perfect life, with all the accoutrements of a huge bank account -- has her own demons to face. How these two imperfect characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is the heart of this biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times"--

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Satirical literature.; Marital conflict; Midlife crisis;

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