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- Coexistence : stories / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray.Short stories.Selections.;
"A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from a Giller-longlisted author and one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reservations and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters in Coexistence are searching for connection. They're learning to live with and understand one another, to see beauty and terror side by side, and to accept that the past, present, and future can inhabit a single moment. An aging mother confides in her son about an intimate friendship from her distant girlhood. A middling poet is haunted by the cliché his life has become. A chorus of anonymous gay men dispense unvarnished truths about their sex lives. A man freshly released from prison finds that life on the outside has sinister strictures of its own. A PhD student dog-sits for his parents at what was once a lodging for nuns operating a residential school -- a house where the spectre of Catholicism comes to feel eerily literal. Bearing the compression, crystalline sentences, and emotional potency that have characterized his earlier books, Coexistence is a testament to Belcourt's mastery of and playfulness in any literary form. A vital addition to an already rich catalogue, this is a must-read collection and the work of an author at the height of his powers."--- Subjects: Short stories.; Indigenous peoples; Interpersonal relations; Loneliness; Love;
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- Four umbrellas : a couple's journey into young-onset Alzheimer's / by Hutton, June,1954-author.; Wanless, Tony,1949-author.;
"A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a sudden fall, ending their life as they have known it. While it will be another seven years before they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the signs of dementia are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip contains four umbrellas jammed into every available space, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The two of them begin looking, researching, and remembering -- and make some surprising discoveries about Alzheimer's that lead to one undeniable conclusion: this is not an old person's disease."-- Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Wanless, Tony, 1949-; Hutton, June, 1954-; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer's disease; Spouses;
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- The truffle hunters [videorecording] / by Botto, Piero,on-screen participant.; Cauda, Sergio,on-screen participant.; Cicciu, Maria,on-screen participant.; Dweck, Michael,film director,film producer.; Kershaw, Gregory,film director,film producer.; Artemis Rising Foundation,production company.; Beautiful Stories (Firm),production company.; Bow and Arrow Entertainment,presenter.; Faliro House Productions,production company.; Frenesy Film (Firm),production company.; Park Pictures (Firm),production company.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm),production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Director, Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw.Featuring Piero Botto, Maria Cicciu, Sergio Cauda.A documentary about a small group of men and their expertly trained dogs as they search for rare white Alba truffles in the forests of Piedmont, Italy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13 (some material may be inappropriate for children under 13) for some strong language.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures, Italian.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Botto, Piero.; Cauda, Sergio.; Cicciu, Maria.; Truffle industry; Truffles; Working dogs;
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- Stray [videorecording] / by Boris, Shane,film producer.; Helnwein, Ali,composer.; Lo, Elizabeth,film director,film producer.; Intuitive Pictures,production company.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Periferi Film,production company.; This Was Argos,production company.;
Music, Ali Helnwein.Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, the film explores what it means to live without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow viewers an unvarnished portrait of human life through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Motion pictures, Turkish.; Foreign films.; Documentary films.; Feature films.; Animal films.; Nonfiction films.; Feral dogs; Human-animal relationships;
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