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2021., Adult, Brindle & Glass Call No: IND Fic Isa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely. Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie's first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship. In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure -- he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved. All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.
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2017., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Canada Call No: QWF Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A story of love, lust, and the spaces in between.(). It is 1950, and nine-year-old Willa's sheltered childhood is about to come to an end. After Willa's dad leaves, her mother's beau arrives with his two sons to her family's summer home in British Columbia. As Willa's older sister pairs off with the older of these boys, Willa finds herself alone in the off-kilter company of the younger, Patrick. When, one afternoon, Patrick lures Willa into a dilapidated rowboat, Willa embarks upon an increasingly damaging relationship with Patrick, one that will forever reconfigure her understanding of herself and her place in a menacing, male-dominated world. Demi-Gods traces the tumultuous years of Willa's coming-of-age as she is drawn further into Patrick's wicked games, and as both are drawn to the seductive promise of California. Though they see each other only a handful of times, each of their encounters is increasingly charged with sexuality and degradation. When Willa finally realizes the danger of her relationship with Patrick, she desperately tries to reverse their dynamic, with devastating results. Daring, singular, and provocative, Demi-Gods explores a girl's attempt to make a life of her own choosing in a world where women's independence is suspect, a world that threatens to claim a woman's body as a mere object for men's pleasure. A sensitive, playful, and entirely original evocation of the dualities within ourselves and our history, Eliza Robertson's debut novel announces the arrival of one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary literature."--From publisher.
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By Lee, Harperc2015., General, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Lee Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Originally written in the mid-1950s, "Go Set a Watchman" was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before "To Kill a Mockingbird". Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. "Go Set a Watchman" features many of the characters from "To Kill a Mockingbird" some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch - Scout - struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from 'To Kill a Mockingbird ' are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, 'Go Set a Watchman ' casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee's enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right."--Publisher.
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2015., HarperAudio Call No: CD Fic Lee Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her" --
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2008., Adult, 110, Paramount Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Grease Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A musical fantasy of high-school life in the 1950's, the story focuses on the romance between the handsome Danny, a would-be gang leader, and his naive girlfriend Sandy.
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By Kerr, Philip2018., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: SC MYS Fic Ker Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Bernie Gunther novel Volume: 13Summary Note: "Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages 'Christoph Ganz' to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece. Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed losses are large , and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place. Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice... Working together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. But there's a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens...one who may have never left."--From publisher.
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By Roth, Philipc2008., Viking Canada Call No: Fic Rot Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad--mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.--From publisher's description.
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2016., Adult, Elevation Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Indignation Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1951, the storyline focuses on a bright and promising young man from a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, who gets a scholarship to attend a small college in Ohio and thus avoids being drafted,but whose ethical principles and nonconformism set him to clash with the people around him and, most importantly, with the dean of the college.
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By Oz, Amos2016., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Oz Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades."--From publisher.
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[2014], Adult, Goose Lane Call No: Fic Sew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Emmett Jones is adrift. The war is over. After flying bombers in WWII, he searches once again for purpose. Then he meets Suzanne and the man sheœs in love with, the charismatic John Norfield, a former POW who is enthralled with communism.Set in the 1950s and early 1960s, a period of rampant paranoia, Mr. Jones peels back the polite veneer of Canadian society to reveal a nation willing to sacrifice its own. A time of fear, a time of peace· at the onset of the nuclear age it is the era of McCarthyism, when governments alleged there was a communist under every bed and a traitor in every friend.
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-- My brilliant friend :2012., Adult, Europa Editions Call No: Fic Fer Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Neapolitan novels Volume: 1Summary Note: Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.
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-- Place to call home.2015., RLJ Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Place 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A place to call home Volume: 3Summary Note: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
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-- Place to call home.By Martin-Jones, Chris Lee, Bevan Hannam, David Sandler, Giula Thomson, Katherine Parsons, Deborah Wilson, Kim Lambert, Sarah Ridley, John R. Barry, Ian Danzey, Lynn-Maree Barrett, Shirley Dusseldorp, Marta, 1973- Hazlehurst, Noni Climo, Brett Berry, David Earl, Abby Parkes-Lockwood, Arianwen, 1987- Mignone, Aldo Wiseman, Sara, 1972- Baird, Jenni Holden, Fra2017., Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic Place 4 Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A place to call home Volume: 4Summary Note: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
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2011., General, New Line Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Pleasant Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Life imitates art when two modern-day teenagers get trapped in the perfect suburbia of the '50s sitcom Pleasantville.
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-- Une Belle Education :c2006., Adult, Boréal Call No: QWF FR Fic The Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Novel traces the formative teenage years of Evelyne, a girl growing up in 1950s Montreal. Born into a culturally destitute environment, raised in an economically disadvantaged family, and taught at a traditional Catholic day school, her mother proudly asserts that all of this adds up to une belle education. When Evelyne ends up a barmaid in a hotel her parents acquire at the edge of the city, she discovers just how wrong her mother is, and how much suffering is enabled by silence and denial. Originally published in 2006, Such a Good Education is a scathing critique of traditional values, exposing the ignorance and poverty that troubled many French Canadian families during the mid-twentieth century."--Publisher.
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c2010., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: QWF Fic The Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Novel traces the formative teenage years of Evelyne, a girl growing up in 1950s Montreal. Born into a culturally destitute environment, raised in an economically disadvantaged family, and taught at a traditional Catholic day school, her mother proudly asserts that all of this adds up to (3z(Bune belle education.(3y (BWhen Evelyne ends up a barmaid in a hotel her parents acquire at the edge of the city, she discovers just how wrong her mother is, and how much suffering is enabled by silence and denial. Originally published in 2006, Such a Good Education is a scathing critique of traditional values, exposing the ignorance and poverty that troubled many French Canadian families during the mid-twentieth century."--Publisher.
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[2018]., Adult, William Morrow Call No: Fic Wil Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister--all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion--is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. But beneath the island's patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel's privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he's determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph's enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda's caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop's hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades. Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same--determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda's stepfather eighteen years earlier. What's more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.
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2023., Orion Releasing LLC Call No: BLK DVD Fic Till Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.