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Mary Shelley [videorecording] / by Al-Mansour, Haifaa,1974-film director.; Jensen, Emma,screenwriter.; Booth, Douglas,1992-actor.; Fanning, Elle,1998-actor.; Powley, Bel,1992-actor.; Williams, Maisie,1997-actor.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.; IFC Films,presenter.; Parallel Films (Firm),production company.; Gidden Media,production company.;
Director of photography, David Ungaro ; editor, Alex Mackie ; music, Amelia Warner.Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Bel Powley, Douglas Booth, Ben Hardy, Tom Sturridge, Stephen Dillane, Joanne Froggatt, Hugh O'conor.The real-life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic masterwork.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Man-woman relationships; Authors;
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Twice Born. by Castellitto, Sergio,film director.; Hirsch, Emile,actor.; Birkin, Jane,actor.; Cruz, Penelope,actor.; Aksoy, Saadet,actor.; Entertainment One Films Canada Inc (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Emile Hirsch, Jane Birkin, Penelope Cruz, Saadet AksoyOriginally produced by Entertainment One Films Canada Inc in 2012.Set against the haunting backdrop of the Bosnian War, this emotional drama follows Gemma (Penélope Cruz), who returns to Sarajevo with her teenage son Pietro (Pietro Castellitto) to revisit the past she shared with his late father, Diego (Emile Hirsch). As flashbacks reveal their intense love affair and the harrowing circumstances that tore them apart, Gemma faces the painful truths of their relationship and the devastating secrets she’s kept hidden. Based on the novel by Margaret Mazzantini.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Romance.; War films.; War.;
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Starlings / by Linsmeier, Amanda,author.;
When seventeen-year-old Kit visits her father's hometown for the first time following his death, she not only discovers that her family is strangely revered among the locals, but that she also has an important role in the town's future.014+.Decoding demand: 96 (very high)HL630L.
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels.; City and town life; Cities and towns; Families; Secrecy; Teenage girls; City and town life; Cities and towns; Family life; Families; Secrets; Teenage girls;
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The woman in the window / by Finn, A. J.,author.;
"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone--a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies, recalling happier times ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble--and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one--and nothing--is what it seems."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Families; Recluses;
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Enemy of my dreams / by Williamson, Jenny(Podcaster),author.;
In the last days of the Roman Empire, a desperate princess and a brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance. Julia, only daughter of the emperor of Rome, lives a life of excess and freedom. Wine, philosophy, and scandal--she revels in hedonism. But when her father dies and her teenage brother takes the throne, he will stop at nothing to seize control of both the empire and his wayward sister. And now Alaric of the Visigoths, a ferocious warrior who has battled Rome for years, has come to the capital to bargain for his homeland. When Julia rebels against the marriage her brother has ordered her to accept, he responds by publicly punishing her lover in the Colosseum. Realizing how perilous her position is, Julia impulsively turns to Alaric--the empire's sworn enemy, and the one man who can make Rome tremble. Julia must find a way to make an ally of Alaric, a man she can't trust--a terrifying warlord with the power to bring both Julia and the empire to their knees--in an edgy, sexy cat-and-mouse game of attraction, defiance, and lust.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Goths; Man-woman relationships; Nobility; Siblings; Visigoths;
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Flight of Icarus / by Schneiderhan, Caitlin,author.;
"In this novel, set two years before the events of Stranger Things: Season 4, Eddie Munson -- Hellfire Club leader, metalhead, and Hawkins outcast -- has one shot to make it big. With an opportunity to score a record deal, he undertakes a risky moneymaking scheme with his father to get the funds to record a demo"--
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Nineteen eighties; Outcasts; Small cities; Teenagers; Nineteen eighties; Outcasts; Small cities; Teenagers;
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12 angry men [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Fonda, Henry; Balsam, Martin; Warden, Jack; Cobb, Lee J.; Marshall, E.G.; Klugman, Jack; Begley, Ed; Rose, Reginald;
Director, Sidney Lumet.Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Martin Balsam, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden.A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom dramas in cinema history.OFRB rating: PG.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Drama.; National Film Registry.; Drama.; Classics.;
© 2011., The Criterion Collection,
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A better man : a (mostly serious) letter to my son / by Black, Michael Ian,1971-author.;
"Michael Ian Black takes a poignant look at manhood, written in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he leaves for college. Black offers a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love"--
Subjects: Men; Masculinity.; Conduct of life.; Fathers and sons.;
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A killer in the family : a novel / by Lodge, Gytha,author.;
"When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the fields, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer. Now, as they find the second, they know for sure. Panic about the "bonfire killer" quickly spreads through the sedate, suburban area of Southampton. Women are urged not to travel alone at night, and constant vigilance is encouraged among the local residents. But single mom Aisling Cooley has a lot to distract her: two beloved teenage sons and a quest to find her long-lost father, whom she hasn't seen since she was a teenager growing up in Ireland. After much debate she decides to upload her DNA to an ancestry website, and when she gets a match she is filled with an anxious excitement, that her questions about her father's disappearance from her life might finally be answered. But to her horror, it's not her father who's found her. It's a detective. And they say her DNA is a close match for the bonfire killer ... "--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Detectives; ‬DNA fingerprinting; Family secrets; ‬Genetic genealogy; Mothers and sons; Murder; Serial murder investigation;
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The Clovehitch killer [videorecording] / by Mathis, Samantha,actor.; McDermott, Dylan,actor.; Plummer, Charlie,1999-actor.; Skiles, Duncan,film director,film producer.; Ford, Christopher,1981-screenwriter,film producer.; Beaty, Madisen,1995-actor.; Scream Factory (Firm),publisher.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.; IFC Midnight (Firm),presenter.; End Cue (Firm),production company.;
Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis, Madisen Beaty.A shocking revelation turns a teenage boy's world upside down in this chilling look at the evil that can lurk below even the most wholesome surface. When Tyler discovers a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession, he begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be a psychopath, and that his deadly rampage is not over.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Fathers and sons; Psychopaths;
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