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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In Bangalore, India, five young women fight to save their homes, which are really only shacks and lean-tos, in a slum named "Heaven," which the city wants to bulldoze in order to accommodate its growing tech industry"--
Series
Criterion collection volume 239
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (218 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Les bas-fonds (93 min.): A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and to takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.
Donzoko (125 min.): Sutekichi, a vulgar, comical thief takes up residence in a slum flophouse inhabited by many eccentric, destitute people. Osugi, the cruel...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the road to womanhood in the '70's, Vivian ... is encountering two big bumps: her strangely nomadic family--always on the move, yet desperate to stay in the Beverly Hills school district--and her blossoming sexuality. Add Viv's vivacious cousin ... to the mix, and you've got an explosive coming-of-age story that proves you don't have to be rich to have first-class fun.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Ever since That Night, the residents of Khaufpur have lived a perilous existence. Their world is poisoned. Nobody has received compensation or help for the chemical leak, least of all Animal, as he is known, whose spine twisted at a young age, leaving him to walk on all fours. Though he inhabits a dark kind of half-life, he knows what love is. He has long harboured feelings for his friend Nisha but since she is enamoured of his friend Zafar he cannot...
7) The games
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- home to beautiful white-sand beaches, gorgeous women, stunning natural beauty, and the world's largest Carnival celebration -- knows how to throw a party. So it's a natural choice to host the biggest spectacles in sports -- the World Cup and the Olympics. To ensure that the games go off without a hitch, the organizers turn to Jack Morgan, the unflappable head of the renowned international security and consulting firm Private....
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