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182) Number the Stars
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter...
183) Disoriental
Author
Publisher
Europa editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Albertine Prize and Lambda Literary Award. Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself, as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility...
184) Blue in green
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Struggling musician Erik Dieter returns home for his mother's funeral and, under strange circumstances, finds a photograph of a late sixties jazz musician. The search for this musican's identity will soon become an obsession that will take Erik down the spiralling depths of his ambitions--a journey that will erode his faith in reality, forcing him to confront the horrors of his own great expectations."--Page [4] of cover
185) The last emperor
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of Pu Yi, who, at the age of 3, toddled to the Imperial Dragon Throne to become "Lord of 10,000 Years," China's last emperor.
186) Highwayman
Author
Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Forever on the move, Highwayman travels through the vastness of North America searching for the source of his condition. He suffers from a strange, seemingly incurable disease: immortality. Bound to the road and at the mercy of whomever will give him a ride, he encounters people who reflect the rapidly changing world around him. Moving through centuries of change, he watches humanity's precarious trajectory towards an unknown future.
187) Bingo love
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, 1962
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
191) I shot Andy Warhol
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A journey into the cultural whirlwind of events surrounding Valerie Solanas' shooting of pop-art superstar Andy Warhol.
193) Children of Dune
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after the events in Frank Herbert's Dune, Maud'Dib--Arrakis emperor Paul Atreides--has become the unintended figurehead of a violent dictatorship, and his enemies are multiplying. Vanishing into the desert, he waits as destiny shapes his twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima, who must contend with their scheming aunt Alia while Princess Wensicia, of the enemy House Corrino, plots her own attack on Maud'Dib's familial empire. Exiled Atreides...
194) Higher learning
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
First-term freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality.
195) A woman called Moses
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
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