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Amgash novels volume 1
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"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
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Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's classic tale of two couples who can't quite pair up to everyone's satisfaction. Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander but has been promised to Demetrius by her father. Hermia's best friend Helena loves Demetrius, but in his obsession for Hermia Demetrius barely even notices her smitten friend. When Hermia and Lysander plan to elope all four find themselves in the forest late at
...4) Bears
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 39 pages : portrait ; 20 cm.
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"As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the time he reaches the Pacific, Floyd has experienced changes: his gait widening, muscles bulging, sense of smell heightening... A multidisciplinary dark comedy about the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Bears asks what the hell it is we think we're doing here."--...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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xii, 97 pages ; 22 cm
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"Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the West Coast. This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless Trickster who face our postcolonial world head-on as they come to terms with what it means to honour who they are and where they come from. But how to go about discovering yourself when Christopher Columbus allegedly already did that? Bear witness to the courage of these women...
6) Ammonite
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When famed frontier lawman and Montana's first elected senator Eddie Johnson is brutally murdered, his longtime sidekick and friend, Lefty Brown, will stop at nothing to avenge his death, in an ode to the traditional revenge western set in the vast, desolate plains of Montana.
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©2010
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As Christmas draws near, Jack finds himself disconnecting from the holidays, his job, and ultimately his wife. His latest assignment as a journalist takes him to Dallas, but a mysterious photograph draws him to the town of Clearwater, Texas. It is here he discovers the town's life-sized, intricately carved nativity. As Jack delves into the mysteries surrounding the nativity and its creator, he uncovers secrets from his past, reunites with the family...
9) Taxi
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
11) Dreamland
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Thomas, a photographer from France, goes to Japan and receives an assignment to take pictures of abandoned places. Lonely and isolated, he meets Natsuki, a young and beautiful woman who becomes his model. But even though Thomas begins to acclimate to his environment, he begins having panic attacks and nightmares.
Pub. Date
2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvey brain of Stephane, an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. Unable to find the secret to his neighbor's heart while awake, he searches for the answer in his dreams.
Pub. Date
[2013]
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2 videodiscs (247 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jonathan, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, is the ungainly, neglected eldest son of a family living in the Black Country. His younger brother Harold is everything he is not. Despite the favoritism shown to Harold, the two boys build a close friendship that lasts a lifetime and ends in tragedy.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.
16) Tár
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 342 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Aaron Pedersen returns as Det. Jay Swan in this mystery set in the Australian outback. When a body is found along the coast, Jay teams up with a local constable to investigate. Facing obstruction from an archaeologist working nearby, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town as the body count rises.
18) The lover
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager meets a handsome Chinese playboy from a respectable family. Going against the conventions of their respective societies, the lustful pair begin a torrid affair in a seedy Saigon neighborhood. Their strong attraction toward one another is only intensified by the illicit nature of their rendezvous. Given such circumstances, can their relationship last?
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