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1) Simon Birch
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Simon Birch believes that God made him for a special, heroic purpose. Simon and his best friend Joe Wenteworth are both outcasts in their tiny New England town: Joe is the illegitimate son of the town beauty, and Simon, at age 12, is so small that he still plays the infant Jesus in the church Christmas pageant. In the summer of 1964, friendship is put to the test when Little Leaguer Simon hits a foul ball that strikes and kills Joe's mother. Together,...
3) 47 Ronin
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
4) The lobster
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
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"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...
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To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might unleash. Armies wage war around them. For each step has come with a cost-in blood, in loss, in heartbreak. Now, they must split, traveling into...
7) Tracks
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Nick and Ava have become friends over the fact that they're the only upper classmen who still ride the bus to school. And every day, they see the same boy—who they call The Kid—walking along the train tracks, even when the weather is terrible or when he's clearly fighting a bad cold. When Nick notices the mysterious boy...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
418 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
Una fantasía oscura, evocadora e inolvidable impregnada de historia húngara y de mitología judía.En su aldea pagana oculta en el bosque, Évike es la única mujer sin poder, marginada debido a su ascendencia corrupta. Por ello, cuando los soldados de la Sagrada Orden de Leñadores reclaman a una chica para el sangriento sacrificio del rey, el resto de los aldeanos la traicionan y entregan. En el viaje a la capital, tras un ataque en el que los...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply. . . impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to. His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that Aidan is making it all up to disguise the fact that he...
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
11) The D train
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
All his life, Dan Landsman has never been the cool guy. That's about to change, if he can convince Oliver Lawless, the most popular guy from his high school, to show up with him at their class reunion. Dan travels from Pittsburgh to LA and spins a web of lies to recruit Lawless. But he gets more than he bargained for as the unpredictable Lawless proceeds to take over his home, career, and life.
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Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire himself. Though the kingdom of Aluria barely tolerates him, Remy's father has been shaping him into a weapon to fight for the...
13) The outcasts
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon Lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastic adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
16) Mortal Engines
Publisher
Universal
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Description
Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London -- now a giant predator city on wheels -- from devouring everything in its path.
17) Everlasting Lane
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"A captivating, absorbing, and suspenseful evocation of the spells of childhood In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett's Everlasting Lane tells the story of what happens when nine-year-old Peter's father dies and his mother moves them from the city to a house in the countryside, for what seem to Peter to be mysterious reasons. He's soon distracted, though, by the difficulties of being the...
Author
Series
Lot Lands volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Call them outcasts, call them savages they've been called worse, by their own mothers but Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard. He and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized folk safe. A rabble of hard-talking, hog-riding, whore-mongering brawlers they may be, but the Bastards are Jackal's sworn brothers, fighting at his side in a land where there's no room for softness. And...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
560 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage, comes In the Shadow of Lightning, a brand-new epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource-and it's running out. Demir Grappo is an outcast-he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at...
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Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline-her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king's blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered. But when monsters attack the...
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