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Rosarita. by Desai, Anita.;
On holiday in Mexico, Bonita is approached by an elderly woman who claims to have known Bonita's mother when she was a painter and visiting Mexico. But her mother isn't a painter, and she has never been to Mexico. Days later, Bonita seeks out the woman whom she calls the Trickster, and follows her on a tour of what may, or may not, have been her mothers past, forcing her to confront questions of truth and identity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women; FICTION / World Literature / India / 21st Century;
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Inkheart [videorecording (DVD)] / by Bennett, Eliza Hope.; Bettany, Paul,1971-; Broadbent, Jim.; Connelly, Jennifer.; Foreman, Jamie,1958-; Fraser, Brendan,1968-; Funke, Cornelia Caroline.; Funke, Cornelia Caroline.Tintenherz.English.Videorecording.; Gavron, Rafi.; Guillory, Sienna,1975-; Lindsay-Abaire, David.; Mendel, Barry.; Mirren, Helen.; Navarrete, Javier,1956-; Pokorny, Diana.; Serkis, Andy.; Softley, Iain.; Strange, Richard.; Alliance Films (Firm); Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Erste GmbH & Co. KG.; New Line Cinema Corporation.; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Roger Pratt ; editor, Martin Walsh ; music, Javier Navarrete.Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Eliza Hope Bennett, Richard Strange, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Rafi Gavron, Jamie Foreman, Andy Serkis, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Broadbent.When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that will help so he can use his special powers to the interlopers back to their world.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1); Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Funke, Cornelia Caroline.; Action and adventure films.; Characters and characteristics in literature; Fantasy films.; Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Good and evil; Missing persons; Oral reading; Time travel;
© c2009., New Line Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Alliance Films,
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Denial : a novel / by McLachlin, Beverley,1943-author.;
"Jilly Truitt has made a name for herself as one of the top criminal defense lawyers in the city. Where once she had to take just about any case to keep her firm afloat, now she has her pick--and she picks winners. So when Joseph Quentin asks her to defend his wife, who has been charged with murdering her own mother in what the media are calling a mercy killing, every instinct tells Jilly to say no. Word on the street is that Vera Quentin is in denial, refusing to admit to the crime and take a lenient plea deal. Quentin is a lawyer's lawyer, known as the Fixer in legal circles, and if he can't help his wife, who can? Against her better judgment, Jilly meets with Vera and reluctantly agrees to take on her case. Call it intuition, call it sympathy, but something about Vera makes Jilly believe she's telling the truth. Now, she has to prove that in the courtroom against her former mentor turned opponent, prosecutor Cy Kenge--a man who has no qualms about bending the rules. As the trial approaches, Jilly scrambles to find a crack in the case and stumbles across a dark truth hanging over the Quentin family. But is it enough to prove Vera's innocence? Or is Jilly in denial herself?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Attorney and client; Family secrets; Murder; Women lawyers;
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The last trial / by Turow, Scott,author.;
"At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend's dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher. As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend, and--no matter the trial's outcome--will he ever know the truth? Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Criminal defense lawyers; Nobel Prize winners; Insider trading in securities; Murder;
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Languages of truth : essays 2003-2020 / by Rushdie, Salman,author.;
"Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word, and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2019, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie's own intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, often by telling vivid, sometimes humorous stories of his own personal encounters with them, whether on the page or in person. He delves deeper than ever before into the nature of "truth," revels in the vibrant malleability of language, and the creative lines that can join art and life, and he looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and censorship. The ideas, true stories and arguments presented here are at once revelatory, funny and eye-opening, enlivened on every page by Rushdie's signature wit and dazzling voice, making this volume a genuine pleasure to read"--
Subjects: Essays.;
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The quiet boy / by Winters, Ben H.,author.;
From the "inventive ... entertaining and thought-provoking" (Charles Yu) New York Times-bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State, this sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time--and the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up. In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk, still in practice but a shell of his former self, is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder ... the murder, as it turns out, of the expert witness from the 2008 hospital case. Shenk's adopted son, a fragile teenager in 2008, is a wayward adult, though he may find his purpose when he investigates what really happened to the murdered witness. Two thrilling trials braid together, medical malpractice and murder, jostling us back and forth in time. The Quiet Boy is a book full of mysteries, not only about the death of a brilliant scientist, not only about the outcome of the medical malpractice suit, but about the relationship between children and their parents, between the past and the present, between truth and lies. At the center of it all is Wesley Keener, endlessly walking, staring empty-eyed, in whose quiet, hollow body may lie the fate of humankind.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Trials (Malpractice); Trials (Murder); Teenage boys; Nervous system; Physicians; Lawyers; Murder;
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July Rhapsody. by Hui, Ann,film director.; Mui, Anita,actor.; Cheung, Jacky,actor.; Ka-Yan, Karena,actor.; Cheng Cheng Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Anita Mui, Jacky Cheung, Karena Ka-Yan LamOriginally produced by Cheng Cheng Films in 2002.Brimming with unspeakable serene beauty, JULY RHAPSODY by Hong Kong's director Ann Hui (A Simple Life) and scriptwriter Ivy Ho (Comrades: Almost a Love Story) is a profound and soothing tale about how one paddles through life’s chaos as many seemingly eternal inspiration sources of times, like the Yangtze river, quietly fade away. In appearance, Lam prides himself on teaching classic Chinese literature at an elite school and a family of a caring wife and two sons. Deep down, the man of forty tastes unfulfilled ambitions in affluent old classmates' belittlements and unsatisfied desires in seductions from a free-spirited student. The sudden return of his teenage years mentor finally wrecks this vulnerable balance. Lam must unearth the long-hidden truth about who he is and gain a new perspective on how to live the rest of his life.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong.;
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July Rhapsody. by Hui, Ann,film director.; Mui, Anita,actor.; Cheung, Jacky,actor.; Ka-Yan, Karena,actor.; Cheng Cheng Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Anita Mui, Jacky Cheung, Karena Ka-Yan LamOriginally produced by Cheng Cheng Films in 2002.Brimming with unspeakable serene beauty, JULY RHAPSODY by Hong Kong's director Ann Hui (A Simple Life) and scriptwriter Ivy Ho (Comrades: Almost a Love Story) is a profound and soothing tale about how one paddles through life’s chaos as many seemingly eternal inspiration sources of times, like the Yangtze river, quietly fade away. In appearance, Lam prides himself on teaching classic Chinese literature at an elite school and a family of a caring wife and two sons. Deep down, the man of forty tastes unfulfilled ambitions in affluent old classmates' belittlements and unsatisfied desires in seductions from a free-spirited student. The sudden return of his teenage years mentor finally wrecks this vulnerable balance. Lam must unearth the long-hidden truth about who he is and gain a new perspective on how to live the rest of his life.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong.;
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The last trial [sound recording] / by Turow, Scott,author.; Lloyd, John Bedford,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by John Bedford Lloyd."At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend's dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher. As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend, and--no matter the trial's outcome--will he ever know the truth? Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Criminal defense lawyers; Insider trading in securities; Murder; Nobel Prize winners;
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Alibi / by La Plante, Lynda,author.;
Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes and Morton's wife and girlfriend provide him with an alibi. They all declare Damon Morton innocent. The police know he did it. But if people lie under oath in a court of law -- who can the jury believe?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Police; Serial murders; Trials (Murder); Women;
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