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- Three thousand years of longing [videorecording] / by Elba, Idris,actor.; Gore, Augusta,screenwriter.; Miller, George,1945 March 3-screenwriter,film producer,film director.; Mitchell, Doug,film producer.; Ozturk, Berk,actor.; Swinton, Tilda,actor.; Thunderbolt, Pia,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Byatt, A. S.(Antonia Susan),1936-Djinn in the nightingale's eye.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
- Director of photography, John Seale; music by Tom Holkenborg.Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Pia Thunderbolt, Berk Ozturk, Anthony Moisset, Alyla Browne, Peter Bertoni, Lianne MacKessy.While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for some sexual content, graphic nudity and brief violence.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Jinn; Wishes; Women scholars;
- For private home use only.
- Our vicious oaths : a novel / by Davenport, N. E.,author.;
- Princess of the Aether Dominion, Kadeesha wants nothing to do with fae politics. She is a warrior, first and foremost, and believes her greatest strength is leading her squadron of elite winged serpent flyers to protect her homeland. But bound since infancy to be betrothed to the Hyperion High King, ruler of all Dominions, she has no choice but to do what men have chosen for her. Repulsed by the idea, she decides to spend one last night of freedom--in the arms of a dangerous stranger who takes her to sexual heights she's never experienced before ... but who is only using Kadeesha to set a trap for the High King. For the High King and the kings of his six Dominions were responsible for the decimation of the Apollyon Court, and its new king, Malachi, wants his pounds of flesh. On Kadeesha's wedding day, Malachi and his special forces attack. Her father is killed, and Malachi wounds the High King, ultimately taking Kadeesha as hostage back to his land. But she is no true hostage. The two form a pact: she will help lure the High King so Malachi can kill him once and for all, and he in turn will not harm Kadeesha or the Aether people. And as much as Kadeesha hates politics, she is now the Queen of her folk. Fae bonds are unbreakable ... and so, perhaps, is the attraction Kadeesha and Malachi feel for each other. For even as they must publicly display their connection to provoke the High King's jealousy, they struggle to resist the powerful allure between them in order to achieve their ultimate goals.
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Fairies; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Kings and rulers; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Princesses;
- The Green Knight [videorecording] / by Edgerton, Joel,1974-actor.; Halbrooks, Toby,film producer.; Harris, Sean,1966-actor.; Headington, Tim,film producer.; Johnston, James M.(Filmmaker),film producer.; Lowery, David,film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Page, Theresa Steele,film producer.; Patel, Dev,1990-actor.; Vikander, Alicia,1988-actor.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
- Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Sarita Choudhury, Kate Dickie, Erin Kellyman, Ralph Ineson, Anthony Morris.A fantasy adventure based on the Arthurian legend, the film tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's headstrong nephew, who embarks on a quest to confront the eponymous knight, a gigantic tree-like creature.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence, some sexuality and graphic nudity.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Gawain (Legendary character); Green Knight (Arthurian legendary character); Knights and knighthood; Quests (Expeditions);
- For private home use only.
- The sweet spot : the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning / by Bloom, Paul,1963-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.From the author of Against Empathy comes a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives. Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science,The Sweet Spotshows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow. But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists-a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty--and, worse than that, boring.
- Subjects: Self-help publications.; Conduct of life.; Happiness.; Pain; Pleasure.; Suffering;
- The Tudors in love : passion and politics in the age of England's most famous dynasty / by Gristwood, Sarah,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they're dismissed as something existing only in books and song--those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy. Not so. In this ground-breaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty. From Henry VIII declaring himself as the 'loyal and most assured servant' of Anne Boleyn to the poems lavished on Elizabeth I by her suitors, the Tudors re-enacted the roles of the devoted lovers and capricious mistresses first laid out in the romances of medieval literature. The Tudors in Love dissects the codes of love, desire and power, unveiling romantic obsessions that have shaped the history of the world"--
- Subjects: Tudor, House of.; Courtly love;
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