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"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone...
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Quarry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Crisp apples, tart lemons, lush figs, tender peaches-imagine the bounty of a late-summer farmer's market, right in your backyard! Learning how to plant and care for fruit trees is a desirable, accessible activity for a wide range of people. It's a natural extension of many gardeners' repertoires, and the investment yields generations of results. Growing your own fruit ensures a fresh, delicious, abundant harvest for your family and friends for years...
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (4 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
En route to a party in Paris, France, Akin, a black actor from Dallas, bonds unexpectedly with Aziz, a driver from Morocco, who says his cab is the "Karaoke Taxi." As Aziz winds through the streets of Montmartre, Akin starts singing with him, much to the amazement of the filmmaker, iPhone in hand, squeezed into the back seat with his wife and son, laughing as quietly as they can as the car starts and stops and the enthusiasm of the performance intensifies....
7) Stay with me
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English
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Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at University, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage - after consulting fertility doctors and healers and trying strange teas and unlikely cures - Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she has time - until her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy,...
8) Phone Swap
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Language
English
Description
Akin and Mary meet for the first time at Lagos airport where they accidentally run into each other and mistakenly swap their identical phones. This in turn also leads to a cross wiring of travel destinations. Consequently, Akin ends up travelling to where Mary is supposed to go and vice-versa. Neither knows about the swap until they have reached their opposite destinations. In Mary's case 'her' phone (Akin's) stops ringing whereas 'Akin's' (Mary's)...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, acclaimed filmmaker Fatih Akin (Head-On, The Edge of Heaven, In The Fade) delivers a gruesome tale of notorious German serial killer Fritz Honka as he haunts Hamburg’s red light district in the 1970s, frequenting his favorite bar of boozy castaways, the “Golden Glove”, and chasing after any lonely woman he might just be able to lure into his attic.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Learn why beauty matters, how beauty is akin to as power in many stories, and how, as these stories got retold and rewritten (by men), the roles men played became more heroic while the roles women played became designated to looking lovely. Using Grimm's "Snow White" as a lens to examine instruments of femininity, Dr. Harvey explains how these stories are often metaphors for life.
12) Fort Tilden
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Amidst the stagnation of quarter-life crises, Allie (Clare McNulty) prepares for the Peace Corps, while Harper (Bridey Elliot) awaits checks from her father to fund her artistic dreams. But the two quickly shun responsibilities for the day when a pair of good-looking guys invites them for a carefree afternoon. As the two young women embark on a lengthy journey to the beach, they quickly realize that, akin to their transitioning lives, they neither...
13) A Jihad for Love
Publisher
The Film Sales Company
Pub. Date
2008.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. A JIHAD DOR LOVE was filmed in 12 countries and 9 languages and comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn...
14) Viva Cuba
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the young love between two children living in Havana is threatened by their parents' bitter conflicts. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother, a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength...
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Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Director Josephine Decker’s highly-acclaimed second feature unfolds with the lyricism and inexorable sense of tragedy of an ancient Appalachian murder ballad. Indie icon Joe Swanberg (director of *Happy Christmas* and *Drinking Buddies*) delivers a beautifully understated performance as Akin, a soft-spoken farmworker who takes a summer job working for the belligerent, domineering Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), who lives in incestuous isolation with...
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English
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"For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance. But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests...
17) Blackbird
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (13 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This short drama sheds light on a little known part of history - Australia’s sugar slaves. Set in the late 1800s, it follows the story of Solomon Islander siblings, Kiko and Rosa, who were kidnapped from their Pacific island home and forced to work on a sugar cane plantation in Queensland in conditions akin to slavery. Shot entirely on location and in collaboration with communities in Mackay, Queensland - where these historical events took place...
18) Kebab Connection
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Language
English
Description
A delightful, immigrant comedy from Anno Saul and Fatih Akin (Head On) that reminds us how integration really works. Young Turkish hip-hopper Ibo dreams of making the first German kung-fu film. He hones his craft by making an extremely successful commercial spot for his uncle's kebab stand. Ibo's a hit and life is delicious...until his German girlfriend Titzi tells him she's pregnant. After Ibo's panicked reaction, Titzi dumps him. His parents,...
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English
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Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
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"A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our...
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