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2) Typo & Skim
Author
Publisher
Val De Grâce Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living somewhere in our midst are little creatures who make it their business to cause a bit of chaos and make sure things age, become jumbled up, and get dirty. When Typo, one such elf, escapes from his school trip to a little girl's birthday party, his adventures in the human world are just beginning.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In the downward spiral of the Third Reich's final days, a sadistic serial killer is stalking the streets of Prague. The unlikely pair of Jan Morava, a rookie Czech police detective, and Erwin Buback, a Gestapo agent questioning his own loyalty to the Nazi's, set out to stop the murderer. Weaving a delicate tale of human struggle underneath the surface of a thrilling murder story, Kohout has created a memorable work of fiction
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersová, a Jewish Auschwitz inmate with no family left, escapes certain death by acquiring a job in a brothel, passing for Aryan and servicing the SS officers she hates.
5) Aaron's leap
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Aaron's Leap is framed by the lens of a twenty first-century Israeli film crew delving into the extraordinary life of a woman who taught art to children in the Nazi transport camp of Terezin and died in Auschwitz. Aided by the granddaughter of one of the artist's pupils, the filmmakers begin to uncover buried secrets from a time when personal and artistic decisions became matters...
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 3
Publisher
Tusquets
Pub. Date
1987
Language
Español
Description
El libro de los amores rediculos. Quien sabe si por haber sido escritas en el periodo (entre 1959-1968) mas feliz de la vida de Milan Kundera, segun sus propias palabras, son estas narraciones las mas alegras, la mas seriamente desvergonzadas y las mas reflexivamente divertidas de su obra. The book of love ridiculous. Who knows if they were written in the period (between 1959-1968) happiest life of Milan Kundera, in his own words, these narratives...
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Gerda the blue whale was very small, her mother would sing a beautiful song telling her that if she were ever lost she should look to the stars and they would guide her. When it's time for the little whale to leave home, her adventures take her from the warm waters of the equator to the freezing poles. Along the way she meets clever killer whales, playful penguins, a friendly polar bear and the ancient narwhal. Then one day, the little whale...
Author
Series
Publisher
Generations
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Probyn boys, Adolphus and Constantine are going to live with a tutor and his family. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Roby, and their children, Aleck, Bertha and Laura. The Probyns are thoughtless, selfish, rude and spoiled. The Roby children are quick to react and point out the faults of the Probyns, but their mother is more concerned with them seeing their own faults and overcoming them. The story jumps back and forth between the adventures...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After Lloyd Vogel, a jaded magazine writer, is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbor.
11) Dune
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey that tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest...
12) Burning bush
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Czech
Description
Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the shocking act of a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, who in protest of the Soviet occupation, set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square on January 16, 1969, and died four days later. Through the story of defense attorney Dagmar Buresova, who defended Palach's legacy in a doomed lawsuit, the film examines the transformations taking place...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Polish
Description
Tells the story of two young Slovak Jews, who managed to escape from Auschwitz and later compiled a detailed report of the inner workings of the Auschwitz camp, documenting the atrocities and systematic genocide that were taking place there.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
It tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
16) Taxi driver
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to take violence. While also trying to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. 40 years later and better than ever. Enjoy this special edition.
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