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Book Chat August 17: Black Cows and Cats
Book Chat December 17: Underdog Day
Book Chat September 21-23: Wife Appreciation Day
Book Chat December 17: Underdog Day
Book Chat September 21-23: Wife Appreciation Day
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 775 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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The third season brings more spellbinding moments for the Pearsons. The Big Three undergo big changes as they turn 38, and another shocking family truth is revealed. As we join Jack and Rebecca on their awkward first dare, we learn more about other romances. Kevin's visit to the Vietnam village where Jack served brings revelations, Randall enters a new arena, Beth resurrects an old dream, and Kate and Toby refuse to give up on parenthood. Through...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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5 videodiscs (approximately 775 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Centered on characters who share the same birthday, the story follows several decades in the lives of Jack and Rebecca Pearson. As the plot unfolds, it traverses numerous timelines, and intertwines the stories of people whose lives connect in unexpected ways. Filled with memorable performances from its acclaimed cast, it is a smart, poignant dramedy.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 146 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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After his girlfriend turns down a marriage proposal by her decent-but-dull boyfriend, small-time crook, Jimmy, drifts back into town to win back his old flame and pull off one final crime. Will she follow her head or her heart - and can her new beau handle the stiff competition? This smooth operator has more than met his match in a motley crew of oddball outcasts, as rekindled passions and old secrets up the ante in an uproarious love triangle.
Series
This is US volume Season 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 776 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Chronicles the Pearson family across the decades, from Jack and Rebecca as young parents in the 1980s to their 37 year old kids Kevin, Kate and Randall searching for love and fulfillment in the present day. This grounded, life affirming dramedy reveals how the tiniest events in people's lives impact who they become, and how the connections they share with each other can transcend time, distance, and even death.
10) Hill of freedom
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology. Shot in the narrow alleys, petite cafes and beautiful Hanok inns of Seoul's historic Jong-ro district, a favorite Hong location.
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen format
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two artists one Austrian, the other French meet in Paris and form an instant friendship. Each falls in love with the same woman, who loves both in return. Their friendships and mutual love affair last for decades.
12) Juliet, naked
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner, and along the way is joined by an insane traveling salesman that will not leave him alone. Includes featurette, and deleted scene.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beth, a popular writer, and her husband Don, a well-liked therapist, share the kind of relationship that truly, seriously, for the love of God cannot be real: that is, they're actually in love. Even after decades of marriage, parenting, and successful careers, their physical spark has somehow not diminished; in fact, they seem to relish the opportunity to share a single ice cream cone and drive others including their son, Charlie mad. Should it come...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (689 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Full of heartfelt wit, drama, and tears the journey of the Pearson family continues in Season Five of this highly acclaimed, award-winning series. With its trademark storytelling style, moving from the past to the future and back again, this season-like-no-other brilliantly incorporates current real-life challenges from the Covid crisis to the complexities of race. Randall pursues the mystery of his birth mother with Beth at his side, Kevin and Madison...
17) Daydream nation
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler is facing a teenager's nightmare: her widowed father has moved them from the city to a tiny nowhere town. When Caroline realizes she has nothing in common with the permanently stoned kids that populate her new school, she pursues the one person she connects with, her handsome young teacher, Mr. Anderson. A bizarre love triangle ensues between Caroline, Mr. Anderson, and a stoner classmate.
"...'Juno' as reimagined...
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) returns to her Scottish hometown to take over her late father's medical practice. She soon becomes ostracized by the community when she begins a passionate romance with a young mother named Lydia (Holliday Grainger). Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Race, sexuality and masculinity are all touched on in a successful attempt to reflect the bigger picture of an era in which the...
19) Amador
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113, 18 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, finds a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. She thinks her problems are solved, but Amador dies shortly thereafter, putting Marcela in a predicament. His death leaves her jobless, something she can't afford to let happen. Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, Marcela will prove that death can't always stop life.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
5 Videodiscs : 928 min] sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Lifelong New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart is set on becoming a heart surgeon, just like her father. But when she's told she doesn't have the requisite bedside manner to receive an important fellowship, she unexpectedly finds herself in tiny Bluebell, Alabama-- a place where she will learn to be a better doctor and a better person, and maybe ever fall in love"--Container of first season.
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