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1) Madame Web
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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"Cassandra Webb is a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present"--
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Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill herlife's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield...
5) Pinata
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Carmen Sánchez está de regreso en su país de origen, México, supervisando la renovación de una antigua catedral en un hotel boutique. Sus hijas adolescentes, Izel y Luna, están con ella durante el verano y se fueron a pasar las tardes sin supervisión en una ciudad extranjera.
Los lugareños tratan a las mujeres Sánchez como forasteras, mientras que los contratistas de Carmen desafían y sabotean
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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The Coleman Family of Nantucket is a piece of work. Samantha's father, Roland, is obsessed with image and money, so much so that Sam's career as a social worker who specializes in addiction recovery is a "stain" on the Coleman reputation.
Now, Samantha is forty-five years old and newly divorced. The further she gets from her relationship with her ex-husband, Daniel, the more she understands she married a manipulative and cruel individual, one not...
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Publisher
Lux ÉDiteur
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
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Au milieu des eaux, une île, un phare. Là habitent, seuls avec les oiseaux, une fille, son père et sa mère. Un marin survient. Il a fait naufrage la veille. Entre lui et la fille débute une étrange histoire d'amour, expression du besoin profond qu'a la jeune femme de s'émanciper de sa famille, de cette île isolée. Au cœur de la rose est une fable mystérieuse sur les rapports des hommes et des femmes à la construction du pays, sur l'impatience...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.
Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
In...
9) Chasing Wild
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Series
Publisher
Ampersand Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby comes an all-new Small Town, Friends to Lovers, Law Enforcement romance.
Summer Quinn's life changed five years ago when she walked in on her boyfriend and her best friend in bed together. She silently left, ghosting both of them, and never looked back. She came to Bitterroot Valley, looking for a fresh start, and that's exactly what she got.
After purchasing the local floral shop from...
Summer Quinn's life changed five years ago when she walked in on her boyfriend and her best friend in bed together. She silently left, ghosting both of them, and never looked back. She came to Bitterroot Valley, looking for a fresh start, and that's exactly what she got.
After purchasing the local floral shop from...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Over the course of a single week in a small English village, a widowed octogenarian who has spent her last years alone, ready to die, discovers an unexpected reason to live. After living abroad for sixty years, Helen Cartwright returns to the English town where she was born. She buys a nondescript suburban house on Westminster Crescent, a nondescript suburban street, and settles into a repetitive, reclusive existence: "Each day was an impersonation...
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Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson...
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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A spellbinding tale of two spirited men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to find home within their own skin.
An enthralling nautical epic, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s.
A natural-born storyteller, Ronny is a left-handed "alley mutt" without a birth certificate who searches...
13) Migration
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"The Mallard family is in a bit of a rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids - teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen - the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica."--
14) Mean girls
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic. New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called "The Plastics," ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets out to...
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Publisher
Studio Bulldog
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
À 24 ans, Émilie termine son externat en médecine. Elle a fini avec d'excellentes notes et a été acceptée dans le programme de son choix pour sa résidence. Sauf qu'elle n'arrive pas à se réjouir de cette victoire... Il faut dire qu'elle laisse derrière elle une traînée de sacrifices et de regrets, dont sa relation avec Jake. Pour Jake, la fin de sa relation avec Émilie s'est avéré un deuil énorme. À présent, il va mieux, il travaille,...
16) The iron claw
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports."--
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Publisher
Presses De L'université Laval
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Le théâtre autochtone connaît depuis une trentaine d'années une véritable renaissance. Puisant à ses formes traditionnelles, mais tout autant aux ressources du théâtre d'avant-garde contemporain, cette renaissance s'inscrit dans une dynamique de transformation des expressions théâtrales. Les oeuvres dramatiques d'Ondinnok (Yves Sioui Durand et Catherine Joncas), de Monique Mojica et de Drew Hayden Taylor sont ainsi mises en résonance avec...
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English
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"Klara and Alex are having trouble connecting, but at least their calendars are in sync. Klara--who's always thought of herself as a little different, a sneaker in a world full of kitten heels and polished boots--is feeling a disconnect these days. She has type 1 diabetes, currently works in a dead-end job, and is in desperate need of a change. When her dad falls ill, Klara begrudgingly agrees to help run his small construction company while he recovers,...
19) Drive-away dolls
Publisher
SDS
Language
English
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The film follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on a spontaneous road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of incompetent criminals along the way.
20) Dune, part two
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, along with the native inhabitants of the planet Arrakis, struggle to overthrow the terrible Baron Harkonnen and his family to control the mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms of Arrakis."--
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