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1) Mother!
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Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in MOTHER!, director Darren Aronofsky's praised opus. experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown!
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2023 Read Widely: Russia & Eastern Europe
HPL Cozy Winter Reads 2023
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
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HPL Cozy Winter Reads 2023
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
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1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed...
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Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
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The most wonderful time of the year: The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with the young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgan's love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is right under her nose.
Moonlight & mistletoe: In 'Saint'...
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"Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments explores long-standing ethical and moral issues in light of our most urgent dilemmas. Divided into twelve sections, the book opens with a series of broad arguments on existence, human nature and morality. Indeed, "big" questions of the human condition are explored by some of our best-known and most accomplished living philosophers: What is the meaning of our existence? Should we really "do what we love"? How should we...
8) The tale
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A groundbreaking film memoir, based on the filmmaker's own personal experiences, this HBO Films presentation tells the story of Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern), a globetrotting documentarian and professor living an apparently enviable life with her boyfriend (Common) in NYC. That world is turned upside down when her mother (Ellen Burstyn) discovers a story Jennifer wrote at 13 depicting a "special" relationship she had with two adult coaches, Mrs. G (Elizabeth...
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"Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising, and brilliant explanations of how the world works, with contributions by Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more"--
12) Saint Ralph
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Ralph, a 14-year-old boy, has lost his father and his grandparents. His mother is also very ill. At school he is forced to join the track team, only to discover he has a talent for running. Soon he sets the goal of winning the 1954 Boston Marathon.
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Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
14) The poker house
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A young girl must deal with a mother who is on drugs, a father who is a pimp, and a home that is always filled with seedy characters, where she must help raise her two younger sisters.
15) Yoga pregnancy
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Presents two thirty-minute yoga workouts. The prenatal sequence is designed to develop the strength, flexibility, and mental focus needed to get through the delivery process and enter into the new challenges of mothering. The postnatal routine is meant to build core strength and get the body back in shape, while also releasing tension and fatigue.
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Road to Christmas : About to miss her storybook Christmas Eve wedding and with no transportation in sight, a fashion photographer accepts the kindness of a man and his young daughter, who offer her a ride.
Recipe for a perfect Christmas : A young food critic hoping to become a columnist must face her writer's block and her relationships when her free-spirited mother comes for a holiday visit, changing everything in her path.
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The most wonderful time of the year: The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with the young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgan's love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is right under her nose.
Moonlight & mistletoe: In 'Saint'...
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An anthology of multicultural poetry compiled by a mother and daughter team of poets. The authors are both known and unknown, and one of the more unusual subjects treated is selling your soul to integrate, then one day regretting it with shame. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, an impressive array of poets displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture. The first multicultural poetry anthology to give voice to the lives...
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