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Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.
4) Ashby
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A terminally ill ex-CIA hitman becomes a mentor to his new seventeen-year-old neighbor who is having trouble making friends and fitting in at school.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min. & 92 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wilby Daniels was just an ordinary teenager until a magical ring accidentally transforms him into a sheepdog...whose owner is the leader of a plot to destroy the Space Program! The first live-action comedy Walt Disney produced. B&W and color versions.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009, c1982
Physical Desc
196 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
"Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White?s trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy?s Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book?s unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solace?and to uncover new relationships in the struggle to embrace...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (2 hrs., 17 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel.
10) Romeo for real
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Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"On the surface, Romeo has it all: success on the basketball court, a group of good friends, the companionship of the beautiful Rosie. Deep down, he knows something is wrong: All he feels for Rosie is friendship, and all he feels for his friends' intolerance is guilt. Everything changes when he meets the openly gay Julian at a party and finds himself sharing a kiss with him. In spite of their obvious attraction, Romeo now feels less sure of himself...
11) Keep quiet
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When they are involved in a terrible car accident, Jake Whitmore makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies and secrecy where a dangerous enemy comes forward threatening to expose them.
12) Big game
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a thirteen-year-old boy intent on proving his manhood finds the President of the United States in an escape pod, they discover that terrorists are hunting them and they must find their way to the special forces team also searching for them.
13) Sing Street
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem: he's...
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"Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
15) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (164 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
16) More than this
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
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A boy named Seth drowns, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned....
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"In response to a job advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paralyzed by a massive stroke, because, though two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle 'round Phillip's large house, they are each too...
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Series
Call me by your name novels volume 1
Description
"Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground...
19) No hard feelings
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
Maddie thinks she's found the answer to her financial troubles when she discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to 'date' their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, and bring him out of his shell before he leaves for college. But awkward Percy proves to be a real challenge, and time is running out. She has one summer to make him a man or lose it all.
20) Piranhas
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, this film follows fifteen-year-old Nicola, who lives with his mother and younger brother in a neighborhood of Naples that has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries. Dreaming of a luxurious life with designer clothing and elite nightclub bottle service, Nicola and his gullible group of friends begin selling drugs, a door into the violent, power-hungry world of crime that begins to threaten their innocence,...
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