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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in which we understand -- and fail to understand -- mental illness.
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English
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"Thailand, 1996: Supot, a postman with the Royal Thai Postal Service, hates his job. The only bright light in his life is watching classic movies with his best friend, Ali, the owner of a video store. These cinephiles adore the charisma of the old Western stars, particularly the actresses, and bemoan the state of modern Thai cinema-until a mysterious cassette, entitled Bangkok 2010, arrives at Ali's store. Bangkok 2010 is a dystopian film set in a...
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English
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In 1951, Blackburn Gant, the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, is charged with caring for his best friend's wife, Naomi, when he is drafted to serve overseas, and as Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer, a shocking revelation upends numerous lives.
5) In memoriam
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Henry Gaunt, a student at an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside is relieved to escape his feelings for Sidney Ellwood when he enlists to fight in World War I, but is horrified when all his classmates join him.
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When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
2-disc double your pleasure edition
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (2 hr., 13 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andy Stitzer's friends go to great lengths to help him out of what they perceive to be a dire situation: at 40, he is still a virgin. They are heartened when he begins a relationship with a 40-year-old mother of three, until they learn that the two have a mutual no-sex policy.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
25 Blu-rays (94 hr., 35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : chiefly color photographs ; 14 x 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory. The friends solve everyday problems posed by academia, family and video games. What they prove is that friendship is the element that matters most in the universe.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (1,041 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the misadventures of two teenage heavy-metal fans, and their commentary on music videos, reality TV, the Internet, and ultimate fighting; when their TV is stolen, Beavis and Butt-head hit the road and start a hilarious adventure to try and get it back.
Beavis and Butt-head do America: Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it, and, who knows,...
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Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
5th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the oppotunity to grow old. But when...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
The director's edit.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"As classmates, shy artistic Sonny and charming, popular Gunner had nothing to do with one another, but now, in the stifling climate of Eisenhower's America, where prejudice and paranoia rule the day, the two young men find in each other the strength to change their lives and futures. Each must choose between the suffocating, but familiar comforts offered to them by their mothers and their old flames and friends, or the exciting, but uncertain futures...
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history"--
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