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1) Kairos
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos-an unforgettably compelling masterpiece tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes...
Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which reveals the shocking...
3) Anomalisa
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Michael Stone, husband, father and noted author, travels to Cincinnati to speak at a customer service conference. But once he₂s separated from the routine of his daily life, a chance encounter helps him to realize just what, and whom, he₂s been missing.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jenny Carey is a popular actress who has descended into alcoholism. Alan Miller is a recovering alcoholic who comes to her rescue and encourages her to attend Alcoholics Anonymous while he continues to struggle with his own demons. The two lost souls fall in love but Alan refuses to endanger his marriage no matter how strong his feelings toward Jenny.
5) Trespasses
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"“Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”٬٢٠١٤؛J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review “TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.” —Oprah Daily Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. Amid daily reports...
6) Fatale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A married man is tricked into a murder scheme by a female police detective.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love. In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas....
8) Petunia
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Charlie finally finds a guy he's willing to break his 'no sex' vow for when he meets, and starts dating George McDougal. But George is hiding something from Charlie. Their relationship hits a complicated snag when George's wife returns unexpectedly from a long trip.
10) A severed head
Publisher
Columbia pictures
Pub. Date
2010, c1970
Language
English
Description
A black comedy about the sexual escapades of upper crist Brits in 1960s London.
11) The immoralist
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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Set in an Algerian village, a young man, Michel, challenges the prevailing morality in his search for self fulfillment.
The frail, scholarly Michel, who, shortly after his wedding, nearly dies of tuberculosis. He recovers only through the ministrations of his wife, Marceline, and his sudden, ruthless determination to live a life unencumbered by God or values. What ensues is a wild flight into the realm of the senses that culminates in a remote outpost...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Jamie McAlister has resigned herself to the fact that in this job market, her painfully expensive degree might only get her a position at Starbucks, when she suddenly lands a prestigious internship at the White House. An unexpected encounter late one evening with the charismatic President Gregory Rutland seems like just a fleeting flirtation, but when he orchestrates clandestine meetings and late-night phone calls, their relationship quickly escalates....
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Korean
Description
Driven crazy by the incessant yapping of a noisy dog in a nearby apartment, a part-time college lecturer with an expectant wife eventually snaps and takes matters into his own hands, but soon his actions begin to snowball as the apartment building owner becomes increasingly determined to resolve the mounting complaints of missing pets.
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