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1) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
An amnesiac man found wandering in the Texas desert works to reconstruct his past with the help of his wife and family who have not seen him in four years.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
3) Black Beauty
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When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky-his first home is a good one where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse.
4) Fingersmith
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rousing adaptation of Sarah Waters' most acclaimed novel. Orphan Sue Trinder, raised in a den of petty thieves or 'fingersmiths,' agrees to help a young con man defraud a wealthy heiress. But Sue's plans didn't include falling in love with the heiress.
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm
Description
2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first slave ships left Ghana for America. Ghana has now opened its doors to Black diasporans, encouraging them to return and get to know the land of their ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to visit preserved sites from the transatlantic slave route, and to explore the country's underground queer scene. Their activities are narrated by their two combative guides:...
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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
7) Rainwater
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In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 324 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Relates how the author's discovery of a photograph of her mother wearing a wedding veil and with a man she had never seen before revealed her family's true origins in Iran, her mother's history of abuse and neglect, and a sister that the author never knew she had.
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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are...
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
x, 118 p. : ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages ; 22 cm
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"In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she?s learned from the inspiring people she?s met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, "That is why I had to write this book?to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live.""--Amazon.com.
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, as an imperial lady-in-waiting gradually descends to street prostitution.
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"Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman-but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is itabout Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to passing...
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Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Although they are told that wrestling is for boys, preteen girls Noelia and Wara put on traditional costumes of the Aymara women of Bolivia and head to the fighting ring as Cholitas (or luchadoras). During the week they train physically and develop their fighting styles, and although they realize they can't wrestle forever, they both will use the lessons they've learned in the ring to follow their other dreams."--
16) Sanditon
Publisher
Masterpiece/PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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"'We were eight years in power' was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman, covering class, race, [and] sexual orientation, and filled with ... anecdotes from ... contemporary and historical figures"--
"In 2010, award-winning...
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think...
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