Tatiana Maslany
2) Stronger
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A couple in the Arctic, joined by a mystical bear, navigate love amidst past haunts. Their journey through beautiful, harsh landscapes tests their bonds, confronting demons in a tale of survival and connection. Directed by Academy Award nominee Kim Nguyen.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Told through the lens of a student film project, this found-footage horror from George A. Romero follows a group of film students as they document the chaos of a zombie outbreak. As civilization collapses around them, their cameras capture the brutal reality of survival—and the dark side of human nature.
5) Pink Wall
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A modern romance, following the six-year relationship of Jenna (Tatiana Maslany) and Leon (Jay Duplass), intimately told through defining moments along their journey together, exploring how friendship and resentment grow when confronted with the pressures of adult life. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
On a poor New Hampshire farm in 1860’s America, family ties are tested during the Thanksgiving holiday when a wealthy, bitter woman pays an unexpected visit to her estranged daughter and grandchildren. As she attempts to control the family with money and social influence, secrets of the past are revealed—ones that could tear the family apart forever, or finally reunite it for a long-awaited, old-fashioned Thanksgiving. Inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s...
7) Destroyer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (121 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
LAPD detective Erin Bell was, as a young cop, placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, Bell must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.
8) Stronger
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
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Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
10) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 3
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Description
Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice and the Capitol wants revenge and President Snow says no one is safe.
11) The Hunger Games
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
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Description
"The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before--in a remarkable illustrated edition. Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem. One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised...