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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm
Description
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Laurie’s schoolboy days, suddenly...
242) Tales of the city
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([8] p.) : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 6
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger"--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move...
Author
Series
Material world (Alexis J. Hall) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"Two grooms. One mother of a problem. Barnett Durang has a secret. No, not THAT secret. His widowed mother has long known he's gay. The secret is Barnett is getting married. At his mother's farm. In their small Louisiana town. She just doesn't know it yet. It'll be an intimate affair. Just two hundred or so of the most fabulous folks Barnett is shipping in from the "heathen coasts," as Mom likes to call them, turning her quiet rescue farm for misfit...
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Pakistani and a young white man from South London take over a laundrette and convert it into an upscale place.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips this remote corner of Texas. Joel Whitley was shamed out of conservative Bentley ten years ago, and while he's finally made a life for himself as a gay man in New York, his younger brother's disappearance soon brings him back to a place he thought he'd escaped for good. Meanwhile, Sheriff's Deputy...
249) Love, etc
Series
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the relationships of five New York couples over the course of one year. Documented is a witty, poignant, and humorous exploration about the universal stages of love, depicted through five real stories over the course of one year in New York City. From teen romance to a decades-long marriage, newlyweds to a recent divorcee, and even a bachelor so frustrated in his search that he chooses to have children without a partner, follow along on each...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Michael Koresky's most formative memories were simple ones. A movie rental. A mug of tea. And a few shared hours with his mother. Years later and now a successful film critic, Koresky set out on a journey with his mother to discover more about their shared cinematic past. They rewatched ten films that she first introduced to him as a child, one from every year of the '80s, each featuring women leads. Together, films as divergent as 9 to 5, Terms...
Author
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 20 cm
Description
"In 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the civil partnership of their friends Reg and George, the first in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. Years later, when Reg and George died within a few weeks of each other, Mike and Peredur discovered that they had been left their home: a whitewashed 'house from the children's stories', buried deep within the hills. On the Red Hill is the story of Rhiw Goch, 'the Red Hill', and its...
253) Gods and monsters
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
McKellen plays the director of the Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, who after two successful films becomes a recluse and forms an unlikely friendship with a young gardner.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform 'open-soul surgery' on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic, depressed Sam, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He's desperate for something to believe in, and the shaman--who promises ancient rituals, plant...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a divison of Rnadom House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xix, 202 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"On October 7, 1988, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in a shocking act of hate. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, theevent was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its people. From the transcripts,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Description
A Pakistani and a young white man from South London take over a laundrette and convert it into an upscale place.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what's coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and...
Publisher
[Distributed by] MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam, and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
Author
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Alex Claremont-Diaz, el hijo millennial de la presidenta de Estados Unidos, es un tesoro para el marketing de la Casa Blanca: atractivo, carismatico e inteligente. Lo que nadie sabe es que no soporta al principe Henry, el hijo de la reina de Inglaterra. Asi que, cuando la prensa sensacionalista se hace con una fotografia que refleja un altercado entre Alex y Henry, las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido se enfrian. Ambos paises trazan...
260) La Mission
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Che gets by on his macho persona, but lives for the love of his son Jesse. When he discovers that Jesse has been living a secret life, Che reacts violently and is forced to examine his actions and the life he lives. Powerful and challenging, a moving portrayal of redemption and fatherhood.
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