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21) Bhai for now
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ashar is busy with the ice hockey team, studying to get into the best school, and hanging out with his friends. Shaheer and his father are always moving, following his dad's jobs. Shaheer has given up hope of finding a place where he can put down roots, a place that feels like home. The two boys have nothing in common. But when they meet on Shaheer's first day at his new school, it's like looking in a mirror. They quickly figure out that they're...
22) Scoop: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In "Scoop, " surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure," Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondents as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism an how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
Author
Language
English
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"But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silencefull of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a teenager is forced to act as a servant for her stepsisters as they audition for a role in a live musical, she invents an identity and tries to get the role herself while drawing the attention of an attractive male celebrity.
25) I am so clever
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
The big bad wolf is hungry and on today's menu is Grandma, with Red Riding Hood for dessert. But no one is home at Grandma's house, only a nightdress lying on the bed. The wolf puts on the nightie and sets off to see what he can catch dressed as Grandma. Here comes Red Riding Hood. She looks clever, but the wolf knows who is smartest... Yet this little girl is not so easily duped. And the wolf finds unexpected hazards in wearing a frilly petticoat...
26) Eee-Moo!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mistakenly believing himself to be an emu, a newly-hatched platypus sets out on a long journey, using various forms of transportation and aided by new friends, to reach Australia.
27) Insignificance
Series
Criterion collection volume 566
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
日本語
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Description
Collection includes: Pleasures of the Flesh (Etsuraku, 1965, color); Violence at Noon (Hakuchu No Torima, 1966, B&W); Sing a Song of Sex (Nihon Shunka-Ko, 1967, color); Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Muri Shin Ju: Nihon No Natsu, 1967, B&W); and Three Resurrected Drunkards (Kaette Kita Yopparai, 1968, color)
31) Niblet & Ralph
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two cats that look alike live in the same building and, when they sneak out to visit one another, worry their young owners by their changed behavior.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Pride and Prejudice meets Black-ish in this exciting new rom-com by debut author Nikki Payne. Liza B-The Only DJ That Gives a Jam-wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at their corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly-but her impossible-to-ignore...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
None
Description
Silent film with (German) intertitles. Presaging such playful sex comedies as Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living, The Doll (1919) follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must wed in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker's flesh-and-blood daughter, in disguise. In I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918), a...
35) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume 864
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his employer dies, a feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world.
36) Top hat
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.
37) Easy living
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
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