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Belle [videorecording] / by Goode, Matthew,1978-; Mbatha-Raw, Gugu,1983-; Richardson, Miranda.; Watson, Emily,1967-; Wilkinson, Tom,1948-; Wilton, Penelope,1946-; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Fox Searchlight Pictures.;
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Tom Wilkinson, Matthew Goode.Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Great-uncles; Man-woman relationships; Racially mixed women; Racism; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© 2014., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,

Lovecraft country. [videorecording] / by Chung, Jamie,1983-actor.; Ellis, Aunjanue,actor.; Harris, Jada,actor.; Abbey Lee,1987-actor.; Majors, Jonathan,1989-actor.; Mosaku, Wunmi,actor.; Smollett-Bell, Jurnee,1986-actor.; Vance, Courtney B.,actor.; Williams, Michael Kenneth,actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,distributor.;
Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Abbey Lee, Jamie Chung, Jada Harris, Michael Kenneth Williams.Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950s Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror television programs.; Television programs.; African Americans; Supernatural; Veterans; Fathers and sons; Occultists;
For private home use only.

The little flower shop / by Foster, Lori,author.;
Forty-two, divorced, and responsible for an aging aunt and uncle, florist Emily Lucretia, deciding to put herself out there, starts dating the owner of the local barbecue joint until her meddling small town gets involved in her relationship, with hilarious and unexpected results.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; City and town life; Florists; Man-woman relationships;

Big love : the power of living with a wide-open heart / by Stabile, Scott,author.;
Subjects: Love.;

Bridge to bat city : a mostly true tall tale about the weirdest town in Texas / by Cline, Ernest.; Westell, Mishka.;
After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
Subjects: Bats; Music; Friendship;

Shades of rust and ruin / by Howard, A. G.(Anita G.);
Nix and Clarey search for Nix's uncle in the parallel world Mystiquel, where Nix discovers there is more to her family curse and otherworldly artwork than she ever imagined-and unless she can solve the Goblin King's maze before the clock strikes midnight, the curse will claim more lives.Ages 13.Grades 10-12.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Blessing and cursing; Goblins; Friendship;

Bird brain / by Levy, Joanne.;
"Arden always wanted a pet, but taking care of her Uncle Eli's parrot, Ludwig, was not what she had in mind. She wants to keep all her fingers! But as Arden gets to know Ludwig, she realizes he is not just incredibly smart but loyal and the best pet she could have asked for."--
Subjects: Parrots; Pets; Human-animal relationships;

Arch-conspirator / by Roth, Veronica,author.;
"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but Antigone's parents were murdered, leaving her father's throne vacant. As her militant uncle Kreon rises to claim it, all Antigone feels is rage. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest. But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Mythological fiction.; Novels.; Antigone (Mythological character); Dictators; Dystopias; Families; Genes; Imprisonment; Kings and rulers; Nobility; Parents; Revolutions; Uncles; Women heroes;

No place like home / by Bird, James,1979-;
Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother live in a car and are trying to get to Los Angeles where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting, but even after finding a stray dog, Opin's longing for a stable home intensifies as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high.
Subjects: Homeless persons; Dysfunctional families;

The cosmic con [graphic novel] / by Kasman, Ron,1953-author.;
Toronto, 1968. Herbie Weingarten, a teenager in his last year of high school, finds that his uncle Jeffrey, a holocaust survivor, has been taken in by a new religious movement called, "Exalted Consciousness". The young man tries to extricate his uncle from the group even while his uncle tries to pull him into it. Visit Toronto's downtown core when Yorkville was a hippy haven, Rochdale College was a centre of the illicit drug trade and bands had names like Intercontinental Ballistic Grapefruit. Watch as personalities are broken down and moulded in the pursuit of power and money by the mysterious Baron Gerhard Von Albrecht. Take a walk along "cult row" from Davenport and Avenue Road through to Yorkville, as pernicious gurus create ugly alternatives within the Age of Aquarius. This propulsive plot is matched by Kasman's meticulous and lavish illustrations capturing a bygone era of Canada's largest city and the seedy characters within.
Subjects: Historical comics.; Graphic novels.; Cults; High school seniors; Nineteen sixties; Teenage boys; Uncles;

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