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1) Lost on me
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Already a bestseller and award-winner in Italy, Lost on Me is a burningly witty coming-of-age novel of a young woman in a wildly eccentric family from one of Italy's most celebrated young writers working today. In this distinctly contemporary, irreverent, and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex, and family disaster into brilliant comedy reminiscent of Fleabag and Portnoy's Complaint....
Author
Publisher
Milkweed edition
Pub. Date
2016., c2015.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Franklin Starlight's comfort in solitude and experience in the wilderness make him appear wise beyond his sixteen years. But when his ailing father, Eldon, summons him back to town, Franklin's sense of duty clashes with the deep resentment he feels for his father's many years of absence and neglect. Finding Eldon near death after years of drinking, Franklin grudgingly agrees to help carry out his father's final wish to be buried in the warrior way,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 955 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
5) Museum hours
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18 pages] : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
This mesmerizing tale portrays two drifting strangers who find refuge in Vienna's grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. Johann, a museum guard, spends his days silently observing both the art and the visitors. Anne, suddenly called to Vienna from overseas, has been wandering the city in a state of limbo. A chance meeting sparks a deepening connection that draws them through the halls of the museum and the streets of the city.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
Old Dog Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
CAA screening copy
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of two brothers whose relationship is challenged when they find they are in love with the same girl, but it is also about the unshakable bond between them.
7) STYX
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying...
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make, she’s getting stronger.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (82 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Until First Light follows an unnamed protagonist returning to his childhood home following the suicide of his brother. The man struggles with loss as fall gives way to winter and he assumes responsibility for the family farm.
11) The testament
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (94 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Yoel, a meticulous historian researching a WWII massacre of Jews in Austria while leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A riveting mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.
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