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1) There there
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
2) Swing time
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two brown girls dream of being dancers?but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves...
4) Angel heart
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The world on the brink of World War I is being manipulated by a cabal of political villains strategically placed to create conflict. One British lord and his son create a network of domestic worker spies in hopes of undermining the efforts, taking on the likes of Rasputin and Mata Hari with the crown's silent support. When the war happens anyway and takes the life of one of these men, the other must rise above his grief to bring an end to years of...
Author
Publisher
TULS Associates
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Artificial Intelligence and the Transcendental Human - 2084: The Dance of Technology and Consciousness resolves the conflict between the human spirit and the emergent near-life of AI with magical vignettes that disorient and stretch the imagination. Connected story lines illuminate a grand future for humanity, with stepping stones for AI, algorithms, data, and devices that prompt us to create a future safely lit by the new "fire." 2084 is an invitation...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Beset by the political tension of an unsettled year, Gandhi calls for British removal from India. Police Superintendent Ronald Merrick arrests an Indian news reporter. Daphne Manner arrives from London. Merrick vents his frustrations on Kumar in a vicious jailhouse beating. Daphne gives birth. Mildred Layton prepares for her daughter's wedding. The Governor finds out about Merrick's abuse. Sarah is seduced by an officer. Susan delivers a baby boy....
9) Dance-off
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A tongue-in-cheek family comedy set in the world of competition dancing starring talented dancers and choreographers from "So You Think You Can Dance!" Two rival studios pick their stars Jasmine and Brandon to compete against each other for a $25,000 prize. Jasmine and Brandon have history. They were dance partners and mutual crushes as children. But Brandon quickly moved away not allowed to say goodbye to the heartbroken Jasmine. Luckily, both kept...
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Costello is Lou Henry, a bumbling but loveable owner of an amusement park who can't seem to stop adopting strays-- children, animals, and even Uncle Bud (Abbott), a conniving gambler. When Lou tries to help pay Bud's racing debts, he suddenly finds himself the chief suspect in a gangland murder. This was the legendary duo's last film.
12) Ariadne
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
When two Irish insurgents are assigned to guard two captured British soldiers at a remote farmhouse owned by the spirited Widow O'Connell, the foursome pass the time by playing cards, dancing jigs, and bickering amiably about their respective countries and religions. Throughout the conviviality, Barney Callahan is haunted by the knowledge that reprisals will be in order if the Irish harm their British captives.
15) Gallows Court
Author
Series
Jacob Flint volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1930. A headless corpse; an apparent suicide in a locked room; a man burned alive during an illusionist's show in front of thousands of people. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city and at the centre of it all is mysterious heiress Rachel Savernake. Daughter of a grand judge, Rachel is as glamorous as she is elusive. Jacob Flint, a tenacious young journalist eager to cover the gruesome crimes,...
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A handsome, two-fisted pharmacist moves from Boston to Sacramento during the gold rush. Although he endears himself to the community by acting as a doctor, he tangles with the towns unscupulous political bosses. He becomes engaged to a wealthy woman from San Francisco, but discovers in the end that he loves the local dance hall singer.
17) The crucible
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Language
English
Description
"Arthur Miller's The Crucible is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama. Written in response to the Congressional investigations into American Communism in the 1950's, it is a semi-fictional dramatic play intended to parallel the Salem witch trials of the late 1600's. In it, the town becomes obsessed with an igniting incident where a group of young girls are caught dancing nude in the forest with a male slave. This leads to accusations...
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