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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them ... Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be. Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. It is a simple device: people brought together entertain one another with tales of what happened to them on trains. It takes place on a journey I frequently...
Author
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author.
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press
How did Fidel...
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press
How did Fidel...
5) Skellig
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote Australian desert a geologist and a businessman strike a deal to go on a cross country journey together. As they encounter life or death situations, it is clear that neither of them will ever be the same person they were at the beginning.
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"My Body Belongs to Me from My Head to My Toes is an educational tool to help instill confidence in children when it comes to their bodies. The narrative of the story is led by a girl named Clara, who encourages kids to say 'no' if they are uncomfortable with physical contact."--Amazon.com.
9) Mother!
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A couple living a reclusive life discovers that their relationship is challenged when uninvited guests arrive at their home.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The podcast host and author explores how people interact with strangers and why these exchanges often go wrong, offering tips for more accurate and productive interactions.
11) Facing windows
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Giovanna is a young working-class wife and mother, who has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart she never expected; a freedom that will lead her to the arm of a neighbor she secretly adores, and to fulfillment her husband and family cannot provide.
12) The dark valley
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
When a mysterious man rides into town for the winter, a series of deadly events soon follow.
Author
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Border dawn: Joe Alvarado's family has occupied his land for generations. Joe is an old man now, and has always lived in peace with his neighbors. But Grant Mitchell of the Bar M thinks now is the time to make his move. He orders the irrigation system on Joe's land to bed stoppered. It is only the first step in a plan to force Joe to sell out. A bullet is another way. Joe is badly wounded. Town Mashall Greg Hudson for the first time in his life has...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from 'The shadow of the wind' have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him. Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters....
16) The island
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On a weekend vacation with her brother and niece, Beth Anderson is unnerved when a stroll on the beach reveals what appears to be a skull, and instantly recalls the retired couple who disappeared off the island's coast a few months earlier. As a stranger approaches, Beth panics and covers the evidence. But when she later returns to the beach, the skull is gone. With only her niece as a witness, there is no proof of foul play for Beth to bring to the...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness.
19) Following
Series
Criterion collection volume 638
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Is the fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. He gets more than he bargained for with one of his unwitting subjects, who leads him down a dark, criminal path. Special features included.
Author
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
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