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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Formats
Description
Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and hidden family secrets.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold leaf
Description
A stylish, sardonic glimpse at a woman perpetually hovering on the edge of life, so socially inept that she steals bits of conversation and hobbies from others in an attempt to form some social connections.
4) Ulysses
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Ulysses draws upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature (including a framework and episodes that echo the Odyssey) to document an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses entered the world in a firestorm of controversy. Denounced as obscure, unintelligible, nonsensical, and obscene, it was first published in Paris in 1922...
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
131 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
The stories in Better Than War encompass narratives from a diverse set of Iranian immigrants, many searching for a balance between memories of their homeland and their new American culture. The everyday life of each character subtly reflects viewpoints that are simultaneously Iranian and American, of all ages and circumstances. These stories deal with family, friends, relationships, urban life, prison, school, and adolescence. They also contain powerful...
7) The namesake
Author
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Series
Criterion collection volume 304
Publisher
[Distributed by] Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1976
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (160 p. ; 19 cm.) + 1 accompanying booklet (unpaged ; col., ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
An alien, on mission to obtain water, becomes a head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min., 9 min., 23 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In spite of her boyfriend's enthusiasm, Sarah Sparks is ambivalent about her pregnancy, so she sets out to find her estranged mother, now living off the grid, who Sarah feels is responsible for her anxiety.
10) The seep
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
216 pages cm
Description
"Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle-but nonetheless world-changing-invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep's utopian influence-until Deeba begins to imagine what...
11) Runaway saint
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Sara's aunt Bel shows up looking for a place to stay after years without contact, the enigmatic woman brings refreshing change into the lives she touches, but Sara soon learns of the ordeal that Bel went through while she was away.
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Formats
Description
Find Boundaries and Peace from Codependent Behaviors
Free yourself from codependency and reclaim your sanity, peace, and inner strength with this codependency book by Karen Casey, the bestselling author of Each Day a New Beginning.
Learn how to value your own opinion over those of others. Codependency books are perfect for those of us who live as if what other people think matters more than what we think. This thinking leads to constantly trying to...
13) Above and below
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary about five homeless individuals and their lives on the margins of American society.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages cm
Description
"A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement "Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I've tapped into a dark secret." Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Can a country be like a marriage that has run out of cash and steam? Eventually, even those who love each other sometimes conclude they cannot stay together. Enriquez's insights into the financial, political, and cultural issues we face will lead you to the question no one has yet put on the table: Could 'becoming untied' ever happen here? When the enemy was outside--for example, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and people feared America would...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A novel about an interactive game designer with no face by the singer-songwriter behind the Mountain Goats and the author of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality (33-1/3)"--
Isolated by a disfiguring injury, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to play in. From his small apartment in southern California, he orchestrates fantastic adventures where possibilities, both dark and bright, open in the boundaries between the real and the imagined....
17) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Formats
Description
Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages cm
Description
"A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children"--
19) The passenger
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
Author
Description
Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
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