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The upside of anger
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 1,217 libraries worldwide This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics. Denny Davies, retired baseball player, is a flabby, lackadaisical sports talk radio host who is bored by sports and talk. He prods her into being his drinking buddy, and their tenuous friendship grows more intimate. The four daughters have sized up the situation and are getting on with their lives in their own ways, mostly competently. Together, Terry and Denny find out how much a waste of time and effort anger is, along the road to the transformations that can happen when dealing with its aftermath.
Death at a funeral
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3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 1,040 libraries worldwide Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work; his famous, but selfish brother has returned from the USA; his cousin's fiancé has accidentally ingested drugs; a man takes advantage of the sad event to win back the heart, or rather the body, of a woman who is about to marry another; a handicapped old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To cap it all, Daniel notices the presence among the mourners of a mysterious dwarf nobody else seems to know.
Alpha dog
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3 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 716 libraries worldwide Based on the real-life case of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer in California's San Gabriel Valley who, in 2000, became one of the youngest men to appear on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. With family links to organized crime, Johnny Truelove is on the warpath against Jake Mazursky, a sleazebag addict who owes him money. Fate intervenes when Johnny and his friend Frankie encounter Jake's 15-year-old half-brother Zack and hold him as collateral until Jake pays his debts. What begins as a casual, seemingly harmless situation escalates into a crisis of capital crime.
Copying Beethoven
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 559 libraries worldwide When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.
Monster
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4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 222 libraries worldwide Based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for the brutal murders of at least 6 men in Florida. Homeless most of her life, Wuornos subsisted by working as a prostitute. In Florida, down to her last five dollars and pondering suicide, she stopped into a bar for a beer where she meets Selby. One night, after a john attacks her, Aileen pulls a gun and kills the man. Aileen's loathing for the men who pay her for sex becomes so extreme that she begins killing her customers regardless of their behavior.
Monster
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2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 124 libraries worldwide Based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for the brutal murders of at least 6 men in Florida. Homeless most of her life, Wuornos subsisted by working as a prostitute. In Florida, down to her last five dollars and pondering suicide, she stopped into a bar for a beer where she meets Selby. One night, after a john attacks her, Aileen pulls a gun and kills the man. Aileen's loathing for the men who pay her for sex becomes so extreme that she begins killing her customers regardless of their behavior.
Control
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 121 libraries worldwide Lee Ray Oliver, a violent sociopath, is granted a second chance at life when Dr. Copeland, a pioneering scientist, offers him an experimental behavioral drug that promises to suppress his violent nature. When Lee Ray's newfound life begins, he is continually haunted by his murderous past. Searching for redemption, he falls in love with Teresa, his beautiful yet cautious co-worker. Life begins to take on new meaning until the experimental drug starts triggering side effects and Lee Ray's criminal past comes back to life. Will he kill again? Or will he finally gain control?
The punisher
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2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 79 libraries worldwide The Punisher walks through the world of crime and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil that surround him, but intelligence, his years of combat experience and determination helps him stop the villans.
Paranoia 1.0
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide Computer programmer Simon wakes up one morning and finds a plain, brown package in his apartment. He unwraps it, but there is nothing inside, and every day the mysterious package reappears.
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 16 libraries worldwide Jack Starks knows little about who he is, or why he's bound in a strait-jacket and subjected to bizarre psychiatrc treatments. But an even more stunning fate awaits this amnesia stricken Gul War vetran - the treatments will thrust jack into the year 2007, where he'll learn that he died in 1993.
Alpha dog
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2 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 11 libraries worldwide Based on the true story of Jesse James Hollywood. Johnny, a drug dealer, is unable to pay off his debts, so he and his posse kidnap his younger stepbrother, but things start to go wrong. To make matters worse, the police are hot on his trail.
Running scared
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Joey Gazelle is a low level mobster whose job it is to dispose of "hot" guns from mob killings. Joey has been hiding these guns in the drywall of his basement, instead of tossing them in the river. When Joey's son and his best friend, Oleg, witness Joey hiding guns from a botched drug deal, Oleg steals one of the guns and shoots his abusive stepfather with it. Oleg's stepfather is the nephew of a psychotic Russian mob boss, who is in business with Joey's crew on a gasoline scam. Now Joey has a dirty cop from the botched drug deal on his case, the hot .38 out on the street, and Oleg, who can connect Joey to the gun. If Joey manages to make it through the night, he's still got to answer to his wife.
7 zwerge Männer allein im Wald
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1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Based loosely on the well-known fairy tale "Snow White," this adaptation finds the seven dwarfs living -- by choice -- in a forest free of females. (After all, they know the troubles women can bring.) Unable to resist Snow White's charms, however, they let her into their midst, only to find themselves in the unlikely role of rescuer when she's abducted by a wicked queen posing as a cosmetics saleswoman.
Drum
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Fiction. Drame biographique. Vie et combat d'Henry Nxumalo, journaliste renommé dans les années cinquante à Sophiatown, quartier symbolique de la résistance culturelle à Johannesburg. Écrivant pour le magazine Drum, véritable arme médiatique pour le peuple noir à cette époque, Henry Nxumalo a risqué sa vie en dénonçant les conditions de traitement des Noirs qui ont vécu et travaillé pendant ces années de ségrégation, et ce, malgré le harcèlement constant des autorités. Avec Taye Diggs, Jason Flemyng, Gabriel Mann.
7 zwerge Männer allein im Wald
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1 edition published in 2005 in German and held by 1 library worldwide Based loosely on the well-known fairy tale "Snow White," this adaptation finds the seven dwarfs living -- by choice -- in a forest free of females. (After all, they know the troubles women can bring.) Unable to resist Snow White's charms, however, they let her into their midst, only to find themselves in the unlikely role of rescuer when she's abducted by a wicked queen posing as a cosmetics saleswoman.
Sword of Xanten
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 1 library worldwide A fantasy film and mini-series based on the Germanic epic poem Nibelungenlied. It tells the saga of Siegfried.
One point o
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 1 library worldwide "A Kafka-esque nightmare about a young computer programmer who becomes a guinea pig in an insidious sinister experiment."--Imdb.com. more
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