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Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
One evening, soon after the death of her mother and a move to a new town, 14-year-old Millie sees her next-door neighbor, Eric, sitting precariously on his second-floor windowsill, arms outstretched as though in flight. Since the age of five, when his parents died in a plane crash, Eric has been mute, withdrawn from reality and absorbed in the belief that he can fly.As an awkward, magical first love grows between the two, Millie (Lucy Deakins) encourages...
3) Short Peace
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Overseen by legendary director Katsuhiro Otomo, SHORT PEACE is a 2013 omnibus film consisting of a collection of four shorts that explore different time periods in Japan. In Possessions, a lost samurai seeks shelter in a seemingly abandoned house. Two lovers attempt to reunite through a blazing fire in Combustible. A guardian bear and horrific monster fight to the death in Gambo, and in A Farewell to Weapons, four men do battle with robotic tanks...
4) Petrov's Flu
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Based on the novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu by Alexey Salnikov.
5) Warrior King
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this epic true story, a young man grows up in exile in a world overrun by demons and monsters. When evil forces threaten his home, he returns to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a great hero and ruler.
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Director Jiří Barta’s stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half-CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half-Jan van Eyck. The money-obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble (invented by Barta himself) are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words....
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"IRL, Darcy has just moved to the small prairie town of Unity Creek with her two moms. It feels like she left everything good behind in the city. She misses her tabletop gaming friends and her boyfriend -- and is horrified by the homophobia her family faces in their new home. Then she meets kind, quiet Art, who invites her to join his Dungeons & Dragons game. Art is mostly happy fading into the background at school and only really coming alive during...
10) Face To Face
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Swedish
Description
Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece about a female psychiatrist who is a helpless witness to the degeneration of her family, marriage, and career. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Director.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Antisocial misfit Ryohei Arisu wanted nothing more than to leave his mundane life behind, but a wish on a firework transports him to the post-apocalyptic Borderland, a sinister parallel reality where danger lurks around every corner and survival is not guaranteed. To live to fight another day, Ryohei and other unwilling contestants must win a series of games, each deadlier than the last — but returning home means putting not only his skills, but...
12) King Kong
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Big Apple is again besieged by the monstrous King Kong. Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange star in this ambitious remake of the 1933 original, which adds a great deal of camp and good fun to the story, Again, the gargantuan ape battles attacking aircraft high above the streets of New York, this time plunging from the top of the World Trade Center to his death amidst thousands of horrified onlookers.
13) Undine
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Christian Petzold boldly reimagines the ancient myth of Undine in this suspenseful tale of romance and betrayal in modern day Berlin. Undine (Paula Beer) works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. Will Undine defy fate when she meets a diver (Franz Rogowski) offering her a chance at new love?
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After bringing Roz's father's murderer to justice, she and Damian Venturi travel north to Brechaat to save their friends while protecting Ombrazia from a new and dangerous magic which seems to be personally affecting Damian...or whatever is inside him.
Author
Series
Mistborn volume 4
Publisher
A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, "Mistborn: Secret History" is a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. Building upon the characterization, events, and worldbuilding of the original trilogy, this novella offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes at the fate of a certain reader-favorite character. Ten years in the making, "Mistborn: Secret History" might answer a few of your questions"--
Kelsier, sentenced to...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"Discovering an orphaned wolf pup she believes is related to the five sacred beasts of Devia, which a Hunter has been killing one by one, Sona embarks on an epic adventure during which she realizes that the fate of the sacred beasts, and the future of Devia, is in her hands"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
Author
Series
Song of the last kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The epic sequel to the book Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is a fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. The Demon Gods have risen. Skies' End has fallen to the colonizers. And Lan and Zen have chosen sides. But they will not fight together. Though Lan inherited the power of the Silver Dragon, she understands the path she must take. She believes the Demon Gods to be the cause of war, conflict, and...
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