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61) Pleasantview
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"Merging the vibrancy and darkness of recent Caribbean writers such as Ingrid Persaud and Claire Adam with the linguistic experimentation of Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings. Pleasantview is a landmark work in international fiction"--
63) Imperial
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxx, 1306 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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For generations of migrant workers, Imperial County--the California desert region where the U.S. borders Mexico--has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. Award-winning writer Vollmann takes readers deep into the heart of this haunted region.
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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.
66) North Korea's hidden revolution: how the information underground is transforming a closed society
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda artists to diplomats, Jieun Baek tells the story of North...
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Seal Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
vii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
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"In this ferocious collection of essays, twenty-two writers explore how anger has shaped their lives: author of the New York Times bestseller The Empathy Exams Leslie Jamison confesses that she used to insist she wasn't angry -- until she learned that she was; Melissa Febos, author of the Lambda Literary Award--winning memoir Abandon Me, writes about how she discovered that anger can be an instrument of power; editor-in-chief of Bitch Media Evette...
68) Wanda
Series
Criterion collection volume 965
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.
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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
Vintage Classic
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 20 cm
Description
The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is a novel of great warmth and energy: it's the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy's salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.
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Victor Davis Hanson locates the cause of our immigration quagmire in the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles any honest discussion of the present crisis. Conservative corporations, contractors and agribusiness demand cheap wage labor from Mexico, whatever the social consequences. Meanwhile, "progressive" academics, journalists, government bureaucrats and La Raza advocates see illegal aliens as a vast new...
73) Crazed fruit
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (14 p.)
Description
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking. A portrayal of post-war sexual revolution among Japan's young and privileged.
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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.
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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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.
79) Bombay Beach
Publisher
e one entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Decades ago, the Salton Sea, two hours outside Los Angeles, was a tourist hotspot and a symbol of 1950s-era American optimism. Now, a victim of environmental decline, it stands mostly abandoned, its boomtown communities now decaying relics of a bygone era. Visionary filmmaker Alma Har'el investigates one such town, Bombay Beach, and weaves together the stories of its inhabitants with surreal poetry and beauty.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 420 p. ; 25 cm.
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From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, an incisive chronicle of the events and trends that guided--and sometimes misguided--our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone. Ultimately Brands captures the national experience through the last six decades and reveals the still-unfolding legacy of dreams born out of a global cataclysm.
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