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"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
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Brown sisters volume 1
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English
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Emerging from a life-threatening illness, a fiercely organized but unfulfilled computer geek recruits a mysterious artist to help her establish meaning in her life, before finding herself engaged in reckless but thrilling activities.
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English
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"A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases--a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella...
4) Syrian bride
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Shot on location in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian bride is a powerful film about physical, mental and emotional borders and the courage it takes to cross them.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 47 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to- be away. Now the young man, minister in tow, pursues his bride while her father and a horde of lawmen pursue them both.
6) The Bride
Publisher
One World Digital
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Español
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The day of her wedding, a bride escapes on horseback with her secret lover, but the transgression has devastating consequences.
7) Bride Flight
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 130 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Nederlands
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Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends during the long flight taking them to their waiting husbands, who have already settled in Christchurch.
8) Red Apples
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (16 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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A young Armenian bride's relationship with her husband is put to the test on their first day of marriage when her mother-in-law interferes.. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.
10) Skylark
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English
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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The Princess Bride is the first film thus far that was not a hit on its initial release. Instead, its popularity grew slowly over time, engaging small audiences who were connected by a sense of being "in on the secret" - the essence of charm. Solve the riddle of how two different worlds can actually be the same and discover why community can be an important element of storytelling.
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IFC Films
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English
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Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding, armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Despite his cool efficiency, the plot quickly spirals out of control, sending Jay and his hostage on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi, as all the while attractions simmer, loyalties shift, and explosive secrets are revealed....
14) The little bride
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South Dakota with his two teenage sons. The country is desolate, the work treacherous. Most troubling, Minna finds herself increasingly attracted to her older...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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English
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The 19th century produced a radically different kind of hero: the spooky and fantastical Dracula. After observing the structural complexity of this novel, you'll examine the hidden fears and repressed sensuality that led Bram Stoker to create this vampire and his seductive brides. Then ponder Dracula's lasting effect on world literature.
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2021.
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English
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
17) Seven Chances
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1925.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Buster gets word that if he can be married by seven o’clock that evening he will inherit {dollar}7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be-brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish. *"a work of relentless hilarity and visual invention of another order, highlighted by a majestic chase scene.."...
18) Almost a Bride
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1949.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl named Corliss (Shirley Temple) who has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man tells all her friends that the man is her boyfriend. Soon that story starts making its way around the town in this classic comedy.
19) Bride Service
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 8 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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In this vignette from daily life, Dedeheiwa's son returns from hunting and brings a wild turkey and a basket of fruit for his father-in-law. He dumps the goods on the ground, since avoidance rules prohibit him from delivering them directly.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In exploring the experience of women in imperial China, learn about the customs surrounding traditional married life, such as the painful practice of foot binding, the process of betrothal and marriage arrangements, the wedding festivities, and the duties and lifestyle of a wife. Also investigate the social ideal of the chaste widow and its shadow, the luxurious world of courtesans.
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