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Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.
Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
In...
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Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Gaeilge
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Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
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"Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she's keeping secrets from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now conducting unauthorized research on illegitimately procured mice. And, true, her mother is dead, and Eleanor has yet to go through her things. But what else is she supposed to do? What shape can grief take when you didn't understand the person you've lost? Resisting at every turn, Eleanor tumbles blindly down a path toward confronting...
4) Full time
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our...
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"This gorgeous, haunting saga tells the story of modern Turkey and its diverse communities through the life of a gravestone maker. In the city of Mardin, near Turkey's border with Syria, the orphaned Avdo finds purpose when an old mason takes him on as an apprentice. From Master Josef, he learns the importance of their art, which looks after the dead and bears witness to their lives. Avdo then travels the country and meets a woman he loves wholeheartedly,...
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A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless.
It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from...
8) Summering
Publisher
Bleeker Street
Pub. Date
2022
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Widescreen ed.
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1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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MPAA rating: PG-13.
During their last days of summer and childhood, the weekend before middle school begins, four girls struggle with the harsh truths of growing up and embark on a mysterious adventure.
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"When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs"--
10) Erasure: A Novel
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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now as the Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary...
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In Save the Orangutans, middle-aged Frannie Fortunato lives in her imagination and the memories of her youth in the peace and love generation. Her dreams are fading as fast as her red hair.
At one of her nostalgic fetes, a friend of hers introduces her to a gentleman caller, Leonard Grimbaugh.
Leonard is a driven single-minded lawyer who has refrained from any kind of whimsy. He is charmed by this person who embodies all that he has missed.
A romance...
12) Polite society
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SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A merry mashup of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan, who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
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"Bockoven is magic."
-Catherine Coulter
Four sisters who never knew their father-or each other-come together around his deathbed and learn what it means to be a family in The Year Everything Changed , a magnificent novel brimming with heart and feeling from author Georgia Bockoven. The bestselling, award-winning writer who enthralled readers with The Beach House and Another Summer returns with a masterful work of contemporary women's fiction that...
14) The Puppet Show
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Russian
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'The Puppet Show”, is a wok by the classic author of Russian literature of the XX century, one of the greatest Russian poets A. A. Blok (1880-1921). This small lyric drama was, written by the author in the style of Symbolism. The content and the form of the play, are obscure and fragile. Instead of the real events, there are impressions and symbols, instead of real life, fabulous, invented world, instead of real people, puppet masks.
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"Just because you trust someone doesn't mean that person is trustworthy!" Berlin: Back to the Beginning takes a trip back in time to the Cold War, when Chief is thrust into the dark world of espionage and illicit agent networks. His initial assignment to Field Station Berlin, an NSA collection site, changes the trajectory of Chief's life forever, launching the young and innocent soldier into the deep, dark shadows of Covert Operations. Follow the...
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In the heart of a world shrouded in mystery and ancient powers, a young ninja named Ryu finds himself thrust into a perilous journey that will test the limits of his courage and determination. When a chance encounter with the enigmatic god Aetherion offers him untold power, Ryu must choose between the allure of godhood and the bonds of his mortal existence.As Ryu grapples with his decision, he uncovers a web of secrets and betrayals that stretches...
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Hola everyone! Paulie here. I started the Latino Slant in the summer of 2020 to celebrate and spotlight the achievements of Latinos in the entertainment field. Since then we have interviewed some incredible talent from acting legend Edward James Olmos to rising stars like Andrea Munoz.
The past few years I realized I'm hearing a lot of the same questions. "Where are our stories?"We want stories that are new and exciting. Bold and entertaining. Well...
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After Nick's ninety-year-old mother passes quietly from a stroke, he inherits five acres and three homes outside Santa Fe without a clue as to what to do next. An old girlfriend from Colorado shows up to help him sort through closets and his life and figure out what to do next. Nick's infatuation with her escalates when she meets a handsome Mexican artist who has taken up residence in Santa Fe. Nick's past, which includes a murder that he might have...
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The Second Anthology'' is the second anthology of screenplays based on Dianna Diverno's novel. There are three anthologies of screenplays, a total of 60 screenplays for movies and animated movies for children. Screenplays : White Fox, Kill With Style, Cruiser, Revenge - Blood For Blood, Forbidden Love 2, Lady With One Dollar...
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Step Into the Eyes of Darkness, where Miles Clifford is in his adolescence. After a fatal car accident has cost him his family, Miles' life is in shackles and in ruins. He must break free from these chains and change his destiny. Now, Miles must navigate through fear and respect to get a piece of dignity or a piece of dominance!!!
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