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81) The boat
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories from Pushcart Prize-winning author Nam Le has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, is a New York Times Editors' Pick, and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The seven stories' protagonists range from a Colombian teenage assassin to an elderly painter with health problems.
82) The blue guitar
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new novel-at once trenchant, witty, and shattering-about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught. But he's pushing fifty, feels like a hundred, and things have...
83) A man called Ove
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Summary, etc As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, this brilliant novel is "a shattering study of disaffection and belonging" (Bidisha, Guardian).
Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an unexpected inheritance—a house on the beaches of Madras—and discovers an older sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent...87) The raven
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (110 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Baltimore 1849. While investigating a horrific double murder, police detective Emmett Fields makes a startling discovery: the killer's methods mirror the twisted writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Suspecting Poe at first, Fields ultimately enlists his help to stop future attacks. But in this deadly game of cat and mouse, the stakes are raised with each gruesome slaying as the pair races to catch a madman before he brings every one of Poe's shocking stories...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD ; Widescreen ; 50th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most beloved family film of all time! Rogers and Hammerstein's cinematic treasure stars the incomparable Julie Andrews as Maria, the warmhearted young woman who brings joy and music to Captain von Trapp and his children.
89) Hours
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nolan Hayes arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife, Abigail, who has gone into early labor. Things quickly spiral out of control when the birth goes tragically wrong and Hurricane Katrina hits, ravaging the hospital and forcing an evacuation. With his baby dependent on a ventilator and no one around to help, Nolan faces one life-and-death decision after another and must fight to keep his daughter alive.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 611 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The third season brings strange power fluctuations that trigger Will's awareness of something otherworldly. Eleven and Max sense something is off about the town's residents, and despite having closed the portal to the Upside Down, fears that they are all still in danger from it." --Wikipedia.
91) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003, c1988
Edition
Anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five orphaned baby dinosaurs work together to find the Great Valley where they might live peacefully. The enhanced original version with new fun bonus features.
Language
English
Description
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (547 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In season two, Raylan tangles with a ruthless Harlan County crime family, Winona finds herself in hot water after she is a victim in a bank robbery, Loretta begins to piece together what the Bennetts did with her father, and much more.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
99) The white ribbon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
On the eve of World War I, strange accidents in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany involve the children and teenagers of a choir run by the schoolteacher and their families. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery as these events gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1967]
Physical Desc
126 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion...