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In the distance / by Díaz, Hernán,1973-author.(CARDINAL)352031;
"A young Swedish boy finds himself penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman, nature writing, the Western), offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. At first, it was a contest, but in time the beasts understood that, with an embrace and the slightest push, they had to lie down on their side and stay until Håkan got up. He did this each time he thought he spied someone on the circular horizon. Had Håkan and his animals ever been spotted, the distant travelers would have taken the vanishing silhouettes for a mirage. But there were no such travelers-the moving shadows he saw almost every day in the distance were illusions. With the double intention of getting away from the trail and the cold, he had traveled south for days."--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Historical fiction.; Swedes; Male immigrants; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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In the distance / by Díaz, Hernán,1973-author.(CARDINAL)352031;
"A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman, nature writing, the Western), offering a probing look atthe stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. At first, it was a contest, but in time the beasts understood that, with an embrace and the slightest push, they had to lie down on their side and stay until Håkan got up. Hedid this each time he thought he spied someone on the circular horizon. Had Håkan and his animals ever been spotted, the distant travelers would have taken the vanishing silhouettes for a mirage. But there were no such travelers-the moving shadows he sawalmost every day in the distance were illusions. With the double intention of getting away from the trail and the cold, he had traveled south for days. Hernan Diaz is the author of Borges, Between History and Eternity (Bloomsbury 2012), managing editor of RHM, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. He lives in New York"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Western fiction.; Swedes; Male immigrants; Survivors; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 16
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Man push cart [videorecording] by Bahrani, Ramin.(CARDINAL)558426; Bentley, Bedford T.,III.; Dolera, Leticia.; Ghosh, Pradip.; Razvi, Ahmad.; Films Philos (Firm); Koch Entertainment (Firm); Koch Lorber Films.; Man Push Cart, LLC.; Noruz Films (Firm);
Subjects: Feature films.; Melodrama.; Male immigrants; Man-woman relationships; Pakistanis; Street vendors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Man push cart [videorecording] / by Bahrani, Ramin,film producer,film director,screenwriter,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)558426; Bentley, Bedford T.,film producer.; Dolera, Leticia,1981-actor.; Razvi, Ahmad,actor.; Sandoval, Charles Daniel,1975-actor.; Simmonds, Michael,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)884442; Yazdanian, Peyman,composer.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Noruz Films (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Michael Simmonds ; original music, Peyman Yazdanian.Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza, Farooq 'Duke' Muhammad, Upendran K. Panicker."A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi, elements of whose own life story were woven into the script) was a famous rock star. Now a widower separated from his son and adrift in New York, he works long hours selling coffee and bagels from a Midtown Manhattan food cart, engaged in a Sisyphean search for human connection and a sense of purpose that seems perpetually just out of reach. A rare immigrant's-eye view of a post-9/11 city suffused with subtle paranoia and xenophobia, Man Push Cart gives at once empathetic and clear-eyed expression to the everyday dream of human endurance"--Container.Not rated.DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Melodramas (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Male immigrants; Man-woman relationships; Pakistanis; Street vendors;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Flesh [sound recording] : a novel / by Szalay, David,author.(CARDINAL)353558; Weyman, Dan,narrator.(CARDINAL)595404;
Read by Daniel Weyman.Lonely, teenage István gets entangled in a relationship with an older woman. But when a man ends up dead, he emigrates from Hungary to London. At each juncture in his life, István is a detached observer.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Young men; Older women; Interpersonal relations; Male immigrants; Psychic trauma;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heartless / by Bunjevac, Nina.;
"Powered by an expressive black and white drawing style, reminiscent of Robert Crumb and the meticulous pointillist technique of Drew Friedman, the dark undertone of Bunjevac's humour brings into light the range of socio-political issues her comics deal with, such as gender, nationalism or urban alienation, always from an ironic feminist perspective. Her chain-smoking, slightly alcoholic and manically depressed character Zorka may just be today's ultimate antiheroine. A Balkan immigrant in the Brave New World, working in that same meat factory for the last twenty years, tormented by family constraints and her own secrete desires... we simply can't get enough of her." -- BTurn from Amazon.com
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Immigrants; Male prostitutes; Male prostitutes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Flesh : a novel / by Szalay, David,author.(CARDINAL)353558;
From Booker Prize-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour -- a married woman close to his mother's age -- as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.
Subjects: Novels.; Young men; Older women; Interpersonal relations; Male immigrants; Adultery; Psychic trauma; Men;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 15
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Tyler Perry's I can do bad all by myself [videorecording] / by Blige, Mary J.(CARDINAL)354426; Boakye, Kwesi,1999-; Cannon, Reuben,1946-; Henson, Taraji P.(CARDINAL)549808; Knight, Gladys,1944-(CARDINAL)526377; Perry, Tyler.(CARDINAL)340730; Rodriguez, Adam,1975-; Siglar, Freddy.; White, Brian,1973 April 21-; Wilson, Hope Olaidé.; Winans, Marvin.; Zigman, Aaron.(CARDINAL)784253; Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)(CARDINAL)340342; Tyler Perry Company.(CARDINAL)340728;
Director of photography, Alexander Gruszynski ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; music, Aaron Zigman.Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian J. White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, Frederick Siglar, Gladys Knight, Mary J. Blige, Marvin Winans.After Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with them. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. Now, April has to decide between her old ways and the new possibilities of family, faith, and love.MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic material involving a sexual assault on a minor, violence, drug references, and smoking.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; African American women singers; Aunts; Burglary; Juvenile delinquents; Male immigrants; Man-woman relationships; Robo con escala; Tías;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Tyler Perry's I can do bad all by myself (the movie)/ by Cannon, Reuben,1946-producer.; Perry, Tyler,actordirectorproducerauthor.; Henson, Taraji P.,actor.; Rodriguez, Adam,1975-actor.; White, Brian,1973 April 21-actor.; Wilson, Hope Olaide,actor.; Boakye, Kwesi,1999-actor.; Siglar, Freddy.; Knight, Gladys,1944-actor.; Blige, Mary J.,actor.; Winans, Marvin,actor.; Zigman, Aaron,musical director.; Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.); Tyler Perry Company,actordirectorproducerauthor.;
Director of photography, Alexander Gruszynski ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; music, Aaron Zigman.Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian J. White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, Frederick Siglar, Gladys Knight, Mary J. Blige, Marvin Winans.After Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with them. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. Now, April has to decide between her old ways and the new possibilities of family, faith, and love.MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic material involving a sexual assault on a minor, violence, drug references, and smoking.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Burglary; Aunts; Juvenile delinquents; African American women singers; Male immigrants; Man-woman relationships; Robo con escala; Tías;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tyler Perry's I can do bad all by myself [videorecording] / by Perry, Tyler,film director,screenwriter,film producer,actor.(CARDINAL)340730; Cannon, Reuben,1946-film producer.; Henson, Taraji P.,actor.(CARDINAL)549808; Rodriguez, Adam,1975-actor.; White, Brian,1973 April 21-actor.; Wilson, Hope Olaidé,actor.; Boakye, Kwesi,1999-actor.; Siglar, Freddy,actor.; Knight, Gladys,1944-actor.(CARDINAL)526377; Blige, Mary J,actor.(CARDINAL)354426; Winans, Marvin,actor.; Zigman, Aaron,composer.(CARDINAL)784253; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Perry, Tyler.Dear God, are all men dogs.; Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)production company,publisher.(CARDINAL)340342; Reuben Cannon Productions,production company.; Tyler Perry Studios (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Alexander Gruszynski ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; music, Aaron Zigman.Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian J. White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, Frederick Siglar, Gladys Knight, Mary J. Blige, Marvin Winans.After Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with them. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. Now, April has to decide between her old ways and the new possibilities of family, faith, and love.MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic material involving a sexual assault on a minor, violence, drug references, and smoking.DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Romantic comedy films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings.; Burglary; Aunts; Juvenile delinquents; African American women singers; Male immigrants; Man-woman relationships; Robo con escala; Tías;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 22
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