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2023., Hanover Square Press Call No: MYS Fic Mar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives--monitoring every word, every minor disagreement ... and will use every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honor and obey.
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2022., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Ofa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Moderna and Regio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble? As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court's eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess's future hangs entirely in the balance.
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-- Five flights up2015., General, distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic 5 Flights Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton star in this heartwarming story about a happily married couple, Ruth and Alex Carver, who have decided to cash in on their sought-after Brooklyn apartment. After enlisting the help of Ruth's niece, real estate agent Lily (Cynthia Nixon), they're about to embark on a whirlwind weekend they never imagined! As a series of crazy events unfold and offers on the apartment fly, they'll find their unwavering love tested in surprising ways - and ultimately discover a whole new lease on life!"--Container.
![5 flights up [DVD] (2015). Directed by Richard Loncraine.](/Library/images/~imageCT81405.JPG "5 flights up [DVD] (2015). Directed by Richard Loncraine.")
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[2014]., General, Showtime Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Affair 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The affair Volume: 1Summary Note: It explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
![The affair, season 1 [DVD] (2014).](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The affair, season 1 [DVD] (2014).")
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[2016]., Paramount Call No: DVD Fic Affair 2 Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The affair Volume: 2Summary Note: With a murder unsolved and a betrayal exposed, the truth is suspect and shifting between the perspectives of Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole. The story now reveals the complex family ties, passionate betrayals and vengeful emotions that have resulted from the illicit summer liaison. And as the two estranged couples try individually to plan for the future, a new series of deceptions will once again force them to question everything they believed.
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-- Affair.2017., Adult, 566, Paramount Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Affair 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The affair Volume: 3Summary Note: Three years after Noah's shocking admission of guilt at the murder trial of Scott Lockhart, he attempts to restart his life, but the damage wrought by his past decisions has made him a ghost of his former self. Alison has been raising daughter Joanie alongside Cole and Luisa in Montauk, but Alison's past continues to rear its ugly head as Cole and Luisa attempt to build their own future.
![The affair, season 3 [DVD] (2016). Season three /](/Library/images/~imageCT99909.JPG "The affair, season 3 [DVD] (2016). Season three /")
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2018., 590, Paramount : Showtime Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Affair 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The affair Volume: 4Summary Note: Season four finds Noah (West), Helen (Tierney), Alison (Wilson) and Cole (Jackson) in their own orbits, alienated from each other, spinning further and further away from where they all began. Every character is involved in a new relationship, forcing them each to decide if they're ready and willing to leave the past behind for good -- with a season about new beginnings, tragic ends and the ever-elusive possibility of forgiveness.
![The affair, season 4 [DVD] (2017).](/Library/images/~imageCT99966.JPG "The affair, season 4 [DVD] (2017).")
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2023., Adult, Viking Call No: NEW Bio G475a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. And although they couldn't be more different, they meet in 1960's London when, despite the prevailing image of free love, the world was not ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Along the way, they venture from the United Kingdom to Canada and to the United States in elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness--a pursuit that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving parents of two different races and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it's lived between race checkboxes. Eventually, her parents drift apart because they just aren't compatible. Charlotte distances herself from her larger-than-life father too, resulting in 20 years of silence--and, eventually, a complicated reunion. .
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-- Love2013., General, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Amour Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Insightful. Original. Exquisite. Georges and Anne have known a lifetime of love within their intimate marriage. Though their bond has survived time's test, it's about to meet its greatest challenge. Acclaimed director Michael Haneke brings a performance tour-de-force to the screen in a film that exalts the beautiful, compassionate and courageous within us all."--Container.
![Amour [DVD] (2012). Directed by Michael Haneke.](/Library/images/~imageCT75920.JPG "Amour [DVD] (2012). Directed by Michael Haneke.")
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Ã2017., Talonbooks Call No: Fic Mou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A man, returning home one evening after work, discovers his wife brutally murdered, lying in a pool of blood. A cat, their cat, a domesticated animal, tells the man the macabre tale of what happened, and in the second chapter, birds at the window continue the tale. This novel of grotesque realism marries separate, delimited worlds: the animal and the human, the here and away, and the wars of yesterday and today.
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[2005], c1935., Warner Home Video Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Anna (1935) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life.
![Anna Karenina [DVD] (1935). Directed by Clarence Brown.](/Library/images/~imageCT79575.JPG "Anna Karenina [DVD] (1935). Directed by Clarence Brown.")
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By Wong, Jan2017., Adult, Goose Lane Editions Call No: Bio W872a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the locals teach them how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who are part of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting--and occasionally clashing--over their mutual love of cooking. A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, Apron Strings is complex, unpredictable, and unexpectedly hilarious.
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-- Monde de Barneyc2011., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada : distributed by Entertainment One Call No: DVD Fic Barney Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Based on Mordecai Richler's award winning novel, Barney's Version is the warm, wise and witty story of the politically incorrect life of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), who meets the love of his life (Rosamund Pike) at his wedding - and she is not the bride. A candid confessional, told from Barney's point of view, the film spans three decades and two continents, and includes three wives (Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, and Rachelel Lefevre), one outrageous father (Dustin Hoffman), an a charmingly dissolute best friend (Scott Speedman). Barney's Version takes us trhough the many highs - and a few too many lows - of a long and colorful life with an unlikely hero at its center - the unforgettable Barney Panofsky."--Container.
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2001., Adult, Harper Perennial Call No: BLK 305.8 H646b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lawrence Hill's remarkable novel, Any Known Blood, a multi-generational story about a Canadian man of mixed race, was met with critical acclaim and it marked the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing. Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE: On Being Black and White in Canada, a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic. In BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE, Hill movingly reveals his struggle to understand his own personal and racial identity. Raised by human rights activist parents in a predominantly white Ontario suburb, he is imbued with lingering memories and offers a unique perspective. In a satirical yet serious tone, Hill describes the ambiguity involved in searching for his identity - an especially complex and difficult journey in a country that prefers to see him as neither black nor white. Interspersed with slices of his personal experiences, fascinating family history and the experiences of thirty-six other Canadians of mixed race interviewed for this book, BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE also examines contemporary racial issues in Canadian society. Hill explores the terms used to describe children of mixed race, the unrelenting hostility towards mix-race couples and the real meaning of the black Canadian experience. It arrives at a critical time when, in the highly publicized and controversial case of Elijah Van de Perre, the son of a white mother and black father in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has just granted custody to Elijah's mother, Kimberly Van de Perre. A reflective, sensitive and often humorous book, BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE is a thought provoking discourse on the current status of race relations in Canada and it's a fascinating and important read for us all.
