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Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1934.
Language
English
Description
Based on a fable by Ernst Keienburg, this short drama exhibits an entrancing sense of space. As a story about a monstrous man who steals a town’s musical instruments, scholars argue that this is an anti-Nazi allegory. When the musical instruments come to life, Reiniger’s playful silhouette animation celebrates the power of music as joy overcomes evil.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief St�ephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art...
3) Wired
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful computer hacker and a bad-boy FBI agent must collaborate—in more ways than one—in this sexy, suspenseful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood.
Allison Trent doesn't look like a hacker. In fact, when she's not in college working on her degree, she models on the side. But behind her gorgeous face is a brilliant mind for computers and her real love is writing—and hacking—code....
Allison Trent doesn't look like a hacker. In fact, when she's not in college working on her degree, she models on the side. But behind her gorgeous face is a brilliant mind for computers and her real love is writing—and hacking—code....
4) Fool's quest
Author
Series
Fitz and the fool trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Ranking alongside George R. R. Martin as a groundbreaking master of fantasy, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb delivers the second book in her long-awaited Fitz and the Fool trilogy.The harrowing adventures of FitzChivalry Farseer and his enigmatic friend the Fool continue in Robin Hobb's triumphant follow-up to Fool's Assassin. But Fool's Quest is more than just a sequel. With the artistry and imagination her fans have come to expect,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter...
6) Never
Author
Language
English
Description
In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives - and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers - at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while travelling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewel--a novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. "[M.J. Rose] transports the reader into the past better than a time machine could accomplish" (The Associated Press). New York, 1924....
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A dark world much like our own. A fabulously wealthy family. A troubled daughter, social media icon. A dark underworld of criminals and estranged youth. Everything collides in a dramatic tale of wickedness and greed. Romance, love, violence. Who will get away with all the stolen gold? Power crazed, savageness, and an ending that should fry your eyeballs after a central story that stabs you between the ribs. This movie is not for the faint of heart...
9) Beyond Sorry
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This intimate portrait of two “half-caste” women: Zita Wallace who was taken from her Arrernte family at the age of eight; and Aggie Abbott, an Arrernte woman who was hidden from the Aboriginal Protector at the same time that Zita was taken. Zita lost her Aboriginal heritage and was raised in the white world; Aggie grew up within her Aboriginal community, retaining its language and culture. The film follows the friendship that has developed between...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that cross a range of landscapes and generations to reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid, complex characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of an O. Henry Prize for one of his stories and the Flannery O'Connor Award for his first collection, Big Bend. His astounding new collection,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN follows the fortunes of the first all-Aboriginal Australian Rules football team to enter a mainstream AFL-affiliated competition, through their first bone-jarring season. After 30 years of running their own competition on a remote island community north of Darwin, the Tiwi Bombers have finally been accepted into the AFLNT to compete in the Big League. When they ran out onto the oval for the first time they were representing...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting view of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity by one of its leading new writers. A lively and diverse continent of fifty-four countries, over two thousand languages, and 1.4 billion people, Africa has long been painted with a broad brush in Western literature, media, and culture, flattening it into a monolith. In Africa is Not a Country, the acclaimed journalist Dipo Faloyin boldly counters...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival The Hero (O Heroi) is the story of Angola, a nation torn apart by forty years of uninterrupted war, and now trying imperfectly but courageously to piece itself back together. It is also the story of a city, Luanda, like so many in the Third World, trying to absorb the millions of people displaced by civil strife and global economic change. After a thirteen year national liberation struggle...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment and intimidation, the Iranian spy services turned their...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A charming series of short documentaries that take you to the heart of Australian outback life. Biggest Banana: One of the most important days of year for Tweed Valley Banana growers is Murwillumbah’s King Banana competition. After the weigh in and judging the King Banana Proclamation is read out aloud and the winners including the Queen Banana are announced. A Ringers life: Boys as young as 15 and 16 leave home to become ringers out on the backblocks...
Author
Publisher
John W. Lovell Company
Pub. Date
[1829], ©1818
Language
English
Description
ROB ROY is a captivating novel of chivalry and romance set in the Scottish highlands of the 18th century. After rejecting the life his father has laid out for him, Frank Osbaldistone is sent to the North of England to live with his Uncle, where he is to repent his sins. However, when his father's wealth and reputation are threatened, he is drawn to the Scottish Highlands where he must retrieve a set of stolen documents. It is here that he is pulled...
17) Bliss: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Kara is a sex columnist who believes lovemaking is a natural physical function and nothing more. But then she meets J.M., a Tantra master who thinks sex is the way to reach a higher spiritual plane. J.M. becomes Kara's tutor in the ancient sensual arts. Her bliss makes her wonder if it's Tantra or if J.M. has stolen her heart.
Author
Series
Novel of the Mither mages volume Book 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In this sequel to The Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can't control him...and they can't control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless--he...
19) Beauty reborn
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Beauty's life is the stuff of fairy tales. The youngest in her family, Beauty isn't trying to catch Stephan's eye. He is the lord baron's heir, well above her family's modest station, but when he kisses her hand at a party, Beauty is swept away by his charm, his wit, and his passionate declarations of love. Hearts can be untamable creatures, especially when touched by the fires of first love, and Beauty doesn't see the truth of Stephan's intentions...
Author
Publisher
Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Amethyst Faye was six-years-old, she was almost stolen by a monster in the woods on the same night her mother mysteriously disappeared. Ten years, a half dozen psychiatrists, and a slew of diagnoses haven't made things any better; she is still plagued by nightmares, ridiculed at school, and misunderstood by everyone from her teachers to her counselor, to her father. And lately she's been sprouting thick green thorns out of her skin. When the...
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