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The sound of music
Twentieth Century Fox presents ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; directed by Robert Wise ; produced by Argyle Enterprises.
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1965;
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The speed of dark
Moon, Elizabeth.
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2003;
In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be taught to get along in the world despite their differences. They will be made active and contributing members of society. But they will never be normal. Lou Arrendale is a member of that lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the awards of medical science. Part of a small group of high-functioning autistic adults, he has a steady job with a pharmaceutical company, a car, friends, and a passion for fencing. Aside from his annual visits to his counselor, he lives a low-key, independent life. He has learned to shake hands and make eye contact. He has taught himself to use “please” and “thank you” and other conventions of conversation because he knows it makes others comfortable. He does his best to be as normal as possible and not to draw attention to himself. But then his quiet life comes under attack. It starts with an experimental treatment that will reverse the effects of autism in adults. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself? Would he still love the same classical music–with its complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and patterns in the world–shades and hues that others cannot see? Most importantly, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able to reciprocate his feelings? Would it be easier for her to return the love of a “normal”? There are intense pressures coming from the world around him–including an angry supervisor who wants to cut costs by sacrificing the supports necessary to employ autistic workers. Perhaps even more disturbing are the barrage of questions within himself. For Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is. Thoughtful, provocative, poignant, unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping exploration into the mind of an autistic person as he struggles with profound questions of humanity and matters of the heart. From the Hardcover edition.
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A star is born
Warner Bros. Pictures ; screen play by Moss Hart ; produced by Sidney Luft ; directed by George Cukor.
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1999;
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A streetcar named desire .
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2006;
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The subtle knife
Pullman, Philip, 1946-
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1997;
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Swing time
Radio Pictures ; a Pandro S. Berman production ; screenplay by Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott ; directed by George Stevens.
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2005;
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The Tarzan collection
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment ; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; produced by Bernard H. Hyman ... [et al.] ; directed by Richard Thorpe.
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2004;
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Taste of cherry = Tam e guilass
Zeitgeist Films presents an Abbas Kiarostami-CIBY 2000 co-production of a film by Abbas Kiarostami.
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1999;
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The Ten Commandments
Paramount Pictures Corporation ; a Cecil B. Demille production ; produced by Motion Picture Associates, Inc. ; produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille ; written for the screen by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Frederic M. Frank.
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1999;
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Things that must not be forgotten : a childhood in wartime China
Kwan, Michael David, 1934-
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2001;
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Third girl from the left
Southgate, Martha.
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2005;
"This novel tells a story of African-American women struggling against all odds to express what lies deepest in their hearts. Like Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay or E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, it ranges freely through time, fact, and fiction to weave a story about history and art and their place in the lives of three women." ""My mother believed in the power of movies and the people in them to change a life, to change her life." So explains Tamara, daughter of Angela, granddaughter of Mildred - the three women whose lives are portrayed in stunning detail in this novel spanning three generations of one family." "Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1970 is not a place where a smart black girl wants to linger. For Angela, twenty years old and beautiful, the stifling conformity is unbearable. She heads to Los Angeles just as blaxploitation movies are pouring money into the studios and lands a few bit parts before an unplanned pregnancy derails her plans for stardom." "For Mildred, movies have always been a blessed diversion in a life marked by the legacy of the 1921 Tulsa race riots. But after Angela leaves Tulsa following a bitter fight, the distance between them grows into a breach that remains for years." "It falls to Tamara, a budding documentarian - raised in LA by Angela as though they have no family, no history - to help her mother and grandmother confront all that has been silenced and left unsaid in their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
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Thirty-three teeth
Cotterill, Colin.
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2005;
The reluctant national coroner of Laos, Dr. Siri Paiboun, is no respecter of persons or Party; at the age of seventy-two he can afford to be independent. With the assistance of his helpers, Mr. Geung, a mentally challenged lab technician and Nurse Dtui, whose nickname means "Fatty", he continues to elucidate the causes of mysterious deaths and defy the incumbent Communist government bureaucracy.In the course of this latest investigation, Dr. Siri, who has been dubbed "Super Spirit Doc", travels from his home base to Luang Prabang where he communes with the deposed king, who believes he lost his kingdom because his special channel to the occult closed. The king is resigned to his fate; it was predicted long ago. Dr. Siri also attends a conference of shamans called by the Communist government to deliver an ultimatum to the spirits: obey Party orders or get out. Something wild and evil has been let loose in the city of Vientiane. A series of mutilated corpses lands in Dr. Siri's morgue, but it is only when Nurse Dtui is menaced that the elderly coroner can discover the cause of these deaths and identify the creature, animal or spirit, that has been slaying the innocent. Book jacket.
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