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2) Elliot loves
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Elliot can't seem to hold down a relationship for more than a few weeks. The problem isn't due to a lack of effort on his part. Elliot falls in love easily and devotes himself entirely to his male companions. Why is it, then, that none of the hunky guys that he attracts desire the same level of commitment? As Elliot's heart is repeatedly broken in the present, the film flashes back to situations in the past that fueled his need for a dependable partner....
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"Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the Sixth Extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and...
7) Ulysses
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Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930s. In terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyce's first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the...
8) Furthermore
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OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Reads You May Have Missed - Middle School
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Reads You May Have Missed - Middle School
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"Twelve-year-old Alice Queensmeadow, with the help of her friend Oliver, travels through the dangerous, magical land of Furthermore in order to rescue her missing father and prove her own magical abilities"--
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2024 FPPL AAPI YA Reads
LSS - AAPI Youth Fiction
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
LSS - AAPI Youth Fiction
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
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Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
12) Bellflower
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An apocalyptic love story, BELLFLOWER is both explosive and visually stunning. While Woodrow and Aiden prepare for the global apocalypse by crafting homemade flamethrowers and fire breathing Mad Max-inspired muscle cars, Woodrow falls hard in love with a femme fatale who's potentially more dangerous than the end of days. Nominated for Best Cinematography and the John Cassavetes Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for the Emerging...
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Directed by James Franco & Travis Mathews, this docufiction film is inspired by the mythology surrounding the highly controversial 1980 film, *Cruising*, starring Al Pacino – in which, 40 minutes of sexually explicit material was forced to be cut out. The filmmakers set out to re-imagine the lost footage. Assembling a mix of gay and straight men in the lead role, the result is a provocative exploration of the importance of the radical and transgressive...
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Adult - Halloween Fun
Classic Horror Novels--Melrose Park Public Library
Classics - St. Charles Public Library
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Miss Jessel is dead. A new governess arrives at a remote estate in Bly to care for Miles and Flora. Wild but angelic they charm their guardian with flowers, poetry and song. But as she grows to love her two wards, figures appear in the darkness outside and the corners of the house are haunted by those that have gone before. The Governess must confront her fear and protect the children from the alarming dangers that surround them.
15) Animal jokes
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A selection of riddles and jokes related to four-legged, feathered, and finned creatures.
16) Red dawn
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Shout select volume 13
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When Communist paratroopers descend on a high school football field in Colorado, a group of the school's students wages an all-out guerrilla war to save their town and their country. An all-star cast, including Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and Harry Dean Stanton, delivers powerful performances in this gripping story of courage and patriotism.
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"Seth is a kitchen boy at the remote Last Chance Hotel. His father has long ago left, leaving him imprisoned until he is old enough to set out on his own. If there's any hope he has, it's to be the greatest chef that ever lived... just like his father. One night, a band of magicians begin to arrive to participate in a secret meeting -- a Prospect Selection Procedure to determine the most talented magicians in the world, judged by their leader Dr....
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In 1967, a Baltimore man named Howard Donahue began investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like countless Americans, Donahue was fascinated by the events in Dallas. But what separated him from other amateur sleuths, and even the Warren Commission experts, was a lifetime's experience with guns and ballistics. In Mortal Error, Bonar Menninger chronicles Donahue's twenty-five-year investigation of President Kennedy's death and...
20) Final girl
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Every night, four boys trick a young, blonde girl into meeting them in the forest for a date with the intention to hunt and kill her. One night, Veronica is selected and when the hunt begins, the boys soon realize that they messed with the wrong girl.
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