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61) Tokyo!
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman finds her life useless and goes on to experience a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian who calls himself "Merde" emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution, he speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. Three Tokyo-set stories.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human...
63) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
65) Grey Gardens
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
66) Red
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank (Willis) is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone ... until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team -- Joe (Freeman), Marvin (Malkovich), and Victoria (Mirren), and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
For Sally Diamond, people are confusing, unpredictable, and hard to read. She has always preferred routines to spontaneity, silence to noise, and forthright communication to small talk. Adopted at the age of seven by a psychiatrist, she cannot remember any details of her childhood before that age. Now forty-three, Sally finds the truth coming into sharp focus when her past becomes headline news: she endured something unthinkable as a child, and now...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xvii, 181 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Snow has been falling on the village all winter long and all there is to do is stay inside and trade tales. This year everybody is talking about Katri Kling, an outcast who lives with her simple minded brother and Anna, an elderly children's book illustrator, who lives alone in a large empty house. Anna has something Katri wants and by the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star." Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want...
70) Toad
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
This previously unpublished novel from cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love, follows Sally Gunnar, a reclusive woman whose only companions are goldfish, a garden toad and a door-to-door salesman, as she broods over her deepest regrets: failed romances, body issues and her wayward early twenties.
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