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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With a never-before-seen, alternate cut of the film and 90 minutes of all-new immersive special features. Rouge makes her return with the all-star characters from the original film, and joins forces with their younger selves and unite to battle armies of murderous Sentinel robots who are hunting down mutants and humans alike.
122) Oculus: poems
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology.. A fascinating sequence spanning the collection speaks in the voice of the international icon and first Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong, who travels through the history of cinema with a time machine, even past her death and into the future of film, where she finds she has no progeny. With a speculative...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Anna's job is simple: prevent the unexpected from happening and do everything better than perfectly. An artist at heart, Anna works a day job as a private assistant for Bambi Von Bizmark, a megarich Upper East Side matriarch who's about to be honored at the illustrious Opera Ball. Caught between the staid world of great wealth and her unconventional life as an artist, Anna struggles with her true calling. If she's supposed to be a painter, why is...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting work about the woman who sacrificed her future for one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century and a probing look at what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, award-winning writer Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife,...
125) The story collector
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor, Harold Griffin-Krauss, translate 'fairy stories' from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens the future of her community and her very way of life...Captivated by the land of myth, folklore and superstition, Sarah Harper finds herself walking in the footsteps of Harold and Anna one hundred years later,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Season Three, the real gods are coming... and they are very angry. Born into a world of pain, Westworld's android hosts were never allowed to go or see one place: our world. But now, at the end of the game, they're here. With the help of Aaron Paul's very human Caleb, Dolores is ready to start a revolution. And if that doesn't work, she can do it the old-fashioned way... and kill everyone"--Container.
127) 800 words: Season 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
George Turner, a recent widower, quits his job as a popular 800-word columnist for a Sydney newspaper. On an impulse, he buys a house online in a remote seaside town in New Zealand. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids, Shay and Arlo, who just lost their mom and now face an even more uncertain future. When the family arrives in their new home, the colorful and inquisitive locals ensure Turner's dream of a fresh start does not go according...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The first rule of Sunday Lunch Club is ... don't make any afternoon plans. Every few Sundays, Anna and her extended family and friends get together for lunch. They talk, they laugh, they bicker, they eat too much. Sometimes the important stuff is left unsaid, other times it's said in the wrong way. Sitting between her ex-husband and her new lover, Anna is coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy at the age of forty. Also at the table are her...
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
John and Laura Taylor are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna, the perfect woman to be their surrogate, but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna's deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
The curious intermeshing of Burr's and Hamilton's lives at a time when individual Americans were in a position to forcefully shape the future of their country led ultimately to one of the most controversial duels in our history. Co-students at Princeton, co-lawyers in criminal trials, and friends, a long series of political conflicts and personal antagonisms led to the match was cost Hamilton his life and Burr his reputation.
132) In the cards: love
Author
Series
In the cards volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anna hopes that her newly inherited tarot cards will predict an exciting future, including becoming the girlfriend of eighth-grade hottie, Declan Kelso.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From problems with agriculture to greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels, scientists know why Earth is heating up. But around the world, many leaders have been slow to make the changes needed to combat climate change. Many kids today are aware of the climate crisis, and this book takes them through the causes of it as well as examples--like wildfires and the melting polar ice--that show how a warmer world climate is harming Earth....
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The doctor's blessing: "As a nurse-midwife, Amber Bradley clashes with Hope Springs' new doctor, who insists all maternity patients deliver at a hospital. Amber is determined to show Dr. Phillip White that the Amish have a different way of life. But as he becomes a part of the community, and her future dreams, Amber must convince Phillip he's found a home--with her" -- Amazon.com .
Hannah's journey: "Though Amish widow Hannah Goodloe knows she'll...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"London, April 1943. Emmy Lake is in charge of "Yours Cheerfully," the popular advice column in Woman's Friend magazine. Emmy is dedicated to helping readers face the increasing challenges brought about by over three years of war. But her world is turned upside down when Mrs. Cressida Porter becomes the new publisher of the magazine and wants to change everything the readers love. Worst of all, she announces that she is cutting the "Yours Cheerfully"...
Author
Series
Friendships and Festivals volume Book 2
Publisher
Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Do they have a future together, or is their relationship ancient history? Anna Cohen, perpetual assistant at the Manhattan Museum of Jewish History, lands a golden chance to curate her own exhibit when her boss sends her to Rockliffe Manor, New York. She's to assist an influential Jewish family as they organize an exhibit of their own in time for the town's Summer Days Festival. While she's there, Anna just needs to convince them to part with some...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components. In entertaining,...
139) The red pill
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The film explores today's gender war and asks the question "What is the future of gender equality?"
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Anna and Bennett weren't supposed to meet. She lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett has the unique ability to travel through time and space, which he normally uses to see epic concerts from his favorite vintage bands. After an unexpected complication forces him to remain in 1995 for longer than usual, he has to enroll at the local high school. And that's when he meets Anna. Anna spots Bennett at the track during a...