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"He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance--and nothing less than destiny--has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching."--From Amazon.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Three caretakers and a single remaining researcher, who keep the Northern Institute in working order in case research ever resumes, find their work upended by a mysterious object that appears in the snow that soon challenges their every notion of what isnormal.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her twin brother dies, a woman approaching thirty lives in her mother's backyard shed, having trouble moving on, until she meets an awkward real estate agent and an eight-year-old boy who is obsessed with Westerns.
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Series
Amgash novels volume 4
Description
"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and longtime friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. They will not emerge unscathed"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
304, 20 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
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Appears on list
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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...
10) NW
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Four Londoners--Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan--try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end."--From publisher's information.
11) The cloud roads
Author
Series
Books of the Raksura volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Living most of his life trying to hide his shapeshifting from the human tribe that sheltered him, Moon is cast out when his secret is discovered and finds himself being rescued by a winged shapeshifter who introduces him to a new world and a common enemy, winged creatures known as the Fell.
12) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a plane crash that kills the crew, a FedEx system engineer finds himself stranded on a desert island.
13) Zama
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives.
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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance...
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Jake's seemingly idyllic life is in fact a refuge from pain and tragic loss. His serenity is shattered when a Hollywood movie crew descends on the vast Nevada ranch where he works. But the chaos produces and unlikely friendship with mega-star Robert Lange. A startling offer from Lange reawakens a dream Jake had buried with his past. But how much will he risk to embrace life again? This gently powerful novel is filled with characters who face sweeping...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London-perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers-Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper-cannot hide from the...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time in a mining camp ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, after which Sven flees even farther, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a...
18) 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.
20) Acas?, my home
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows an off-the-grid Romanian family, consisting of two parents and their nine children, who, after living for twenty years in the wilderness, are forced to move to the city.
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