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3) Belfast
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer of 1969, young soldier Dalton Joiner finds out that his girlfriend Jane back home has dumped him and vows to sneak out of Vietnam during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend Mickey Wright will do anything to help his buddy out, as long as there might be a few girls along the way. In just seven days they must get to the States, change Jane's mind and make it back to the war without getting caught. But when they arrive...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An artistic sixteen-year-old is forcefully separated from her family by Soviet soldiers and sent to one of Stalin's work camps in Siberia. Despite suffering through cruel and harsh conditions, Lina finds refuge in the connections she makes with other deportees and in the art she continues to create to document her experiences.
6) Dramarama
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's 1994 and a group of high school drama nerds are throwing their last murder mystery slumber party. Before they leave for college, Gene wants to come out of the closet, but is terrified of what his sheltered friends might think.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Arabic
Description
In Jordan, in 1967, tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, eleven, and his mother Ghaydaa are placed in a temporary refugee camp, where they wait, like the generation before them in 1948. Seeking to escape the difficulties of camp life, Tarek's free spirit and curious nature lead him to a group of people on a journey that will change their lives.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's kind of a funny story: Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
Trainspotting: A young heroin addict in Edinburgh...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
Rome, 1970s. Clara is struggling to raise her three children under the crushing expectations surrounding marriage, gender and identity in the early 1970's. Her eldest child, Andrew -- whom Clara calls Adri -- was born female but yearns for another life: an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he canlive as they boy he knows himself to be. Telling adults that he's an alien from another galaxy, Andrew often ventures through the reeds...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Belfast: It was 1969, and in his mixed, working-class Ireland neighborhood, young Buddy (Jude Hill) at least knew no shortage of indulgent infection from his mom (Catriona Balfe) and grandparents (Judi Dench, Ciar©Łn Hinds). However, the rising of the Troubles looked to splinter life in his community--and push his oft-absent dad (Jamie Dornan) into taking a stand.
King Richard: Based on the true story that will inspire the world, follow the journey...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The birdcage: When the son of a gay man invites his fiancee"s ultra-conservative family over for dinner, his father tries to act straight while his partner plays an endearing old woman.
The world to come: Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.
Love, Simon: Everyone...
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