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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
One man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing society's boundaries through his subversive art, FAR OUT ISN'T FAR ENOUGH combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet controversial life story, the film offers a retrospective of Ungerer's life and art, and ponders...
3) Wonka
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the best-selling children₂s books of all time, ₃Wonka₄ tells the wondrous story of how the world₂s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full...
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Language
English
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Description
"Leaders and business professionals handle grueling hours and exceed high expectations. They are undaunted by challenges and embrace opportunities for growth. They assume they are resilient. But given enough demands, anyone can burn out. This makes logical sense, yet you likely still think it could never be you. You are fabulous and at risk of burning out. Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you're in a leadership role or working...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy. The nation was still healing from the War Between the...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Genevieve (Nia Vardalos) loves romance, flowers and Valentine's Day. Her one problem: she hates relationships. Having been hurt numerous times, Genevieve keeps herself happy by not letting any man in. Genevieve doesn't get dumped and never gets hurt, because she doesn't stick around long enough for things to get ugly. Then she meets Greg (John Corbett).
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring all the ways love can save us-or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, hungry yearning: the desire to be loved, and seen, and known. And the terror of those things too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long...
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you’ll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The midwives return to deal with all the problems 1950s London can throw at them as this award-winning drama continues. A very old and dirty woman dressed in rags is fascinated by the newborns, much to the disgust and fear of the mothers. But is there more to this woman that anyone realises? When a baby is abandoned at Nonnatus House at Christmas, the nuns wonder who would be desperate enough to do such a thing. And word soon spreads that Dr Turner...
10) Miami Connection
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. When not performing their hit song “Against the Ninja,” Mark and the boys are kicking and chopping at the drug world’s smelliest underbelly.
11) Threesome: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Alice starts to freak out on the eve of her 30th birthday, she's determined to prove she's not getting boring just because she's getting older. However her 'solution' is going to radically change the lives of Alice, her boyfriend Mitch and their gay best friend Ritchie. A wild night out leads to the boys hazily going along with her drunken suggestion of a threesome. They're close enough not to have regrets in the morning, but when Alice discovers...
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English
Description
"Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the cultural confusion of being one person in two places--of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Italy has the lowest birth rate in Europe. At this rate, Italy’s population could reduce by 16 million over the next 50 years. But despite this, it remains the most romantic country in the world for many. Italy's first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was elected on a platform of a return to traditional family values. Traditionalists fear for the status of the family, and reactionary Catholic campaigners are pushing back on abortion rights....
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Umar Bin Hassan hasn’t even hit 70 yet, but he walks with difficulty and there’s sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progressive spirit of the times starting in the late 1960s, he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. In one of his best-known pieces, "Ni****s Are Scared of Revolution", he criticizes his black brothers’ destructive, macho behavior. SCARED OF...
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two hundred years in the future, the survivors of an environmental cataclysm took refuge underground. Their descendants now live in a literal sewer, the bowels of a subterranean city--an abandoned future utopia--that was never completed. These sewerfolk, a collection of scavengers, misfits, bandits, renegades, and mutants, eke out a living in this underground maze of tunnels and canals.
Life is hard enough, but an overzealous mining company, PERCH,...
16) Wind
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Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Starless clan volume 5
Warriors. Starless clan volume 5
Warriors a starless clan volume 5
Warriors. Starless clan volume 5
Warriors a starless clan volume 5
Language
English
Description
While Frostpaw takes refuge in ShadowClan as Splashtail seizes control of her home, Nightheart returns to ThunderClan and to a complicated reunion with his mate Sunbeam whose efforts to fit in as ThunderClan's newest member are hampered by her treacherous mother.
Author
Series
Seduction volume 3
Publisher
Eloisa James
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Livie never worried much about the world's opinion of her--until the world despised her. One minute she is happily dancing through her first Season, and the next her family is plunged into scandal and exiled from society. Stealing into a masquerade ball, she meets the handsome, honorable Major FitzRoy, son of an earl. Yet if she removes her mask an tells Joshua her name, this scandal might engulf him as well. Could he possibly love her enough to...
18) Lionel and me
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Publisher
New Frontier Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Lionel arrives, Maverick is unimpressed. Is there enough love to go round for the two of them?
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Publisher
Kalaniot Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Leah and her family are packing everything they own, and along with their close-knit Jewish community, leaving the coast of India for their new home in Israel. Leah is torn between the two treasured places until she realizes that her heart is big enough to hold many things.
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book covers the planets in our solar system and galaxies beyond the Milky Way, including stories about astronauts life in space, the exoplanets, and the search for life on other planets; it features fun facts, games, hands-on activities, jokes, and more"--