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Nebraska [videorecording] / by Dern, Bruce,actor.; Forte, Will,actor.; Nelson, Bob,screenwriter.; Payne, Alexander,1961-film director.; Squibb, June,1935-actor.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
Stacy Keach, Bruce Dern, Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte, June Squibb.After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen ; Dolby digital 3.0.
Subjects: Automobile travel; Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Road films.; Sweepstakes; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Paramount Pictures,
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The bones of paradise / by Agee, Jonis,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The award-winning author of The river wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee -- an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Western fiction.; Families;
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Dancing with the octopus : a memoir of a crime / by Harding, Debora,author.;
"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother. It wasn't until decades later - when beset by the symptoms of PTSD- that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with it the sacred bond that once saved her. Dexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family's disintegration in the 1970s Midwest, a rusted landscape where the loss of white male power can flare into unspeakable violence. Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; True crime stories.; Harding, Debora.; Abduction; Kidnapping victims;
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The lost sons of Omaha : two young men in an American tragedy / by Sexton, Joe,1959-author.;
"On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protestor and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock's death, one conducted by the white district attorney Don Kleine, who concluded that Gardner had legally acted in self-defense and released without a trial, and a second grand jury inquiry conducted by African American special prosecutor Fred Franklin that indicted Gardner for manslaughter and demanded he face trial. Days after the indictment, Gardner killed himself with a single bullet to the head. The deaths of both Scurlock and Gardner gave rise to a toxic brew of misinformation, false claims, and competing political agendas. The two men, each with their own complicated backgrounds, were turned into grotesque caricatures. Between the heated debates and diatribes, these twin tragedies amounted to an ugly and heartbreaking reflection of a painfully divided country. Here, Joe Sexton masterfully unpacks the whole twisting, nearly unbelievable chronicle into a meticulously reported and nuanced account of the two deaths, explaining which claims were true and which distorted or simply false. The Lost Sons of Omaha carefully examines some of the most pressing issues facing America today, including our country's dire need for gun control and mental health reform; the dangerous spread of fake news, particularly on social media; and the urgent call to band together in the collective pursuit of truth, fairness, and healing"--
Subjects: Murder victims; Trials (Manslaughter);
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Cocky bastard / by Ward, Penelope,author.; Keeland, Vi,author.;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Erotic fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Australians; Adventure travel;
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Slow dance : a novel / by Rowell, Rainbow,author.;
"They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh's porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of north Omaha--Shiloh would go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change. Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed. Now Shiloh's thirty-three, and it's been fourteen years since she talked to Cary. She's been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she's back living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned. When she's invited to an old friend's wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there--and whether she hopes he will be. Would Cary even want to talk to her? After everything? The answer is yes. And yes. And yes. Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. Two friends who lost everything. Two adults who just feel lost. It's the story of Shiloh and Cary, who everyone thought would end up together, trying to find their way back to the start"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Best friends; Divorced women; Man-woman relationships; Single mothers;
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Slow dance [text (large print)] : a novel / by Rowell, Rainbow,author.;
"They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh's porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of north Omaha--Shiloh would go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change. Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed. Now Shiloh's thirty-three, and it's been fourteen years since she talked to Cary. She's been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she's back living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned. When she's invited to an old friend's wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there--and whether she hopes he will be. Would Cary even want to talk to her? After everything? The answer is yes. And yes. And yes. Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. Two friends who lost everything. Two adults who just feel lost. It's the story of Shiloh and Cary, who everyone thought would end up together, trying to find their way back to the start"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Large print books.; Novels.; Best friends; Divorced women; Man-woman relationships; Single mothers;
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Hell on wheels. [videorecording] / by Common.; Gayton, Joe.; Gayton, Tony,1959-; McElligott, Dominique.; Meaney, Colm,1953-; Mount, Anson,1973-; American Movie Classics Company.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Nomadic Pictures Ltd.;
Disc 1.Viva la Mexico -- Durant, Nebraska -- Slaughterhouse -- Scabs.Disc 2. The railroad job -- Purged away with blood -- The white spirit -- The Lord's day.Disc 3. Blood moon -- Blood moon rising.Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott.Hellbent on vengeance, former Confederate officer Cullen Bohannon travels west in searh of the Union soldiers who murdered his wife. His quest leads him to 'Hell on Wheels,' the dangerous, raucous town that follows the construction of the nation's first transcontinental railroad.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 sound.
Subjects: Murder; Revenge; Western television programs.; Widowers;
© c2013., Entertainment One,
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The King of Crows / by Bray, Libba.;
Led by a vision, the Diviners travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, where they must confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another in order to save the world from catastrophe.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Occult fiction.; Psychic ability; Good and evil;
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Frances Ferguson. by Byington, Bob,film director.; Krumholtz, David,actor.; Wheless, Kaley,actor.; Poulson, Keith,actor.; Starr, Martin,actor.; Offerman, Nick,actor.; Magnolia Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
David Krumholtz, Kaley Wheless, Keith Poulson, Martin Starr, Nick OffermanOriginally produced by Magnolia Pictures in 2019.Nick Offerman's narration adds savor to Bob Byington's bone-dry comedy about a Nebraska substitute teacher (Kaley Wheless) whose crushing discontent drives her to an ill-advised transgression. This SXSW Audience Favorite also stars David Krumholtz and Martin Starr.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;
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