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(0)Timothy Murphy
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In Timothy Murphy's Getting Off Clean, the one thing that Eric Fitzpatrick wants is to escape-both from his family and the racially tense town in which he lives. The only son of an Italian-Irish family in a working class suburb of Boston, he intends to go away to college and leave his old life far behind. But, all his plans are set askew when he meets Brooks, a mysterious, wealthy, black student at a local prep school. As their relationship grows...
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"The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, Milly and Jared's adopted son Mateo grows to see the opportunity for both self-realization and oblivion that New York offers"--Amazon.com.
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In our faithful work toward building a better world, we may often feel we're losing the battle. The poor get poorer, the vulnerable continue to be abused, and justice for all is a distant dream. No matter how hard we work, nothing changes. Somedays, we wonder if God is even still with us in the fight.
But what happens, in our striving for social justice, when we discover that God offers us something entirely different than the promise of victory?...
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440 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Spanning the breadth of the twentieth century and into the post-9/11 wars and their legacy, Correspondents is a powerful novel that centers on Rita Khoury, an Irish-Lebanese woman whose life and family history mirrors the story of America. Both sides of Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of immigration, which we see beautifully rendered in the first part of the novel, and in her home north of Boston Rita grows into a stubborn,...
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It is the spring of 1952, Mick Joyce, Tom Sullivan and Kate Collins are leaving Ireland with a youthful exuberance in the hope of making their fortune. England is still in economic turmoil after the war but still fares much better than the Emerald Isle. In the Ireland of the nineteen fifties the cottages are still thatched and if there is money in the house it is slated. As a compromise between the rich and the not so rich you might see a corrugated...
6) Cuck
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a frustrated young loner gains popularity as an Alt-Right vlogger, the online echo chamber turns his insecurity and disgrace into a deadly rage. Already provoked, a humiliating scandal incites him into actual violence.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wolf, a Native American, is being pursued by the FBI for taking the law into his own hands after his mother is raped and killed. Wolf sets out across the American West, discovering new friendships and lost loves, riding toward the Teton mountain range, where he will spread his mother's ashes.
After avenging his mother's murder, a Native American man goes on the run across the American West on his motorcycle.
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1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
10) Breach
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.