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3) Shoplifters
Description
"On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that is is love-not blood-that defines a family."--Container.
6) The Violin
Author
Pub. Date
2008, c2005
Description
After Don Plutarco and his family are forced to flee their village due to their support of a guerilla movement acting against the local government, Plutarco revisits the village with his violyn posing as a musician in order to gain access to the amunition he had hidden in his corn fields.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Three radical activists like to make their point by breaking into the homes of the wealthy, rearranging their belongings, and leaving cryptic messages. When one such break-in goes wrong, they are forced to kidnap a wealthy businessman.
"Politically charged yet immensely funny and enjoyable."--CompuServe
"Brilliant."--Daily Mirror
"Fresh, biting, gripping, tender, and tense."--The Telegraph On Sunday
10) Whale rider
Description
The Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai...
Description
Restoration: Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything...until an affair leads to scandel, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless.
An ideal husband: A politician's spotless reputation is threatened by a dark secret from his past.
Her magesty, Mrs. Brown: John Brown is a lowly servant who looks after Queen Victoria's horses. Yet when circumstances bring them together, the result is a passionate friendship.
Tom & Viv: A...
12) Bliss: Mutluluk
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
After being raped, a young girl is condemned to death by the people in her village to get rid of the shame it brought her family. When the man who is to kill her runs away with her instead, they set off on a journey through past and present-day Turkey to escape their fate and start a new life.
Pub. Date
1979
Description
A school trip to a mountain takes a turn for the worse when three girls disappear.
"...mesmerizing and unsettling drama. Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
"We are left with an uncanny respect for the mysteries in life that can never be solved by logic alone."--Spirituality and Health
"A masterpiece of eerie atmosphere."--Lawrence Journal-World
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save an orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture to attend a wedding sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change their lives.
15) The dish
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Apollo 11's astronauts will walk on the moon and the huge satellite dish outside a sheep-farming Australian town will beam it globally. But as giddy locals await the moment when the world will rely on them, the dish flatlines.
16) The sculptress
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Olive Martin earned her nickname 'The Sculptress' because of the gruesome way she killed and dismembered her mother and sister. When writer Rosalind Leigh is asked to write a book about the story, she begins to believe that Olive is hiding something.
"*** An intelligent, taut tale, strengthened by interesting characters who interact in intriguing ways... recommended."--Video Librarian
"'The Sculptress' should please even viewers who aren't fans...
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his cross up to Golgotha, the hill outside Jerusalem, where...
18) Tsotsi
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
19) North Face
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In 1936, two German mountain climbers attempt to climb the North face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps and discover that two Austrian climbers are struggling to reach the top before them.
Series
Pub. Date
[1998], c1957
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death, with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as a cultural turmoil envelops the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
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