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1) Sea people
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young Amanda discovers that an elderly couple, John and Bridget have an enchanted and mysterious relationship with the sea.
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"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
473 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
-- -- Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations—those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming. Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver,...
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
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