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Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (139 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Thomas Jerome Newton, a mysterious and complex personality, appears in New York. Despite his curiously frail physical presence, the strength of his intellect and scientific knowledge appear to transcend contemporary human experience. His inventions are of such originality that they will revolutionize the nation's systems of communication and lead, in approximately three years, to the creating of the largest corporate empire in the United States......
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Claus, a woodsman and his wife Anya give beautiful presents to the children in the area each year. This is the origin of the wonderful legend of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus, as the English call him.
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BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (219 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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A mesmerising adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s bestselling novel. What if you could live your life again and again until you finally got it right?One snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born and dies before she can take her first breath. On the same night, Ursula is reborn. But this time, she survives. So begins an extraordinary story of fate and second chances that follows Ursula as she navigates the momentous events of the 20th century, through two...
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Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the Jackson family, was determined to break humanity out of its almost century long stagnation and push it to embrace the stars. The other side, led by the Terran Federation, was determined to block such expansion and maintain...
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An interwoven moving and insightful memoir, a healing help-guide for abuse survivors, and a practical handbook for those wishing to confront their perpetrators through the justice system and seek compensation. A story of a tragic upbringing involving sexual and physical abuse at school and at home. John SaundersOCO brutally honest account brings hope for institutional healing."
6) The Mind
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After leaving the most beautiful planet in the Universe and the man she loves, Dora Dana Dasnan returns to her galaxy only to find that things have drastically changed. Martial law is in effect and the gene-modified, highly trained soldiers patrol the Uni planets with a single directive: to find Dora. Dora needs to disappear once again. She knows how to do it. She has done it before. But an unexpected Vision changes her goals completely and pulls...
7) Bone Dance
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Back in print, Bone Dance is a classic techno-fantasy from Emma Bull, author of the bestselling Territory
Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen-the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between...
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Persephone loves the free-wheeling lifestyle of an inter-planetary freighter pilot. Like her namesake of Ancient Greece, she lives a two-fold life. Part of the year sequestered in deep space and part in various ports with a good friend and hopefully a willing man. Until her heading converges with fellow pilot Reggie. Shy yet quirky, teasing yet kind. He possesses great depths that only Persephone can cross over. When their orbits suddenly diverge,...
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Sarah lives a solitary life in her small homestead, surrounded on all sides by a vast forest that seems to go on endlessly. While she finds peace in her daily routines and connection to the natural world, Sarah also feels a deep loneliness as the sole human inhabitant in this isolated place.
10) We the People
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In the late 21st century, a neurotechnology called Bridge has changed the world. Bridging allows a person to program their own body and mind to achieve untold enhancement. There was one problem: It only works in children. Within a single generation, a new world order developed. Bridged Children grew smarter, faster, and stronger than the Adults and demanded equal rights. The Adults fought back. During the ensuing war, Adams, a prodigy among...
11) Acadie
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The first humans still hunt their children across the stars. Dave Hutchinson brings far future science fiction on a grand scale in Acadie.
The Colony left Earth to find their utopia--a home on a new planet where their leader could fully explore the colonists' genetic potential, unfettered by their homeworld's restrictions. They settled a new paradise, and have been evolving and adapting for centuries.
Earth has other plans.
The original humans...
12) Hyperthought
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Hyperthought recounts the adventures of a young man who trusts an unscrupulous doctor to enhance his brain function, and of a young woman who tries to save him. The year is 2125, and the Earth has undergone drastic climate change due to global warming. People crowd in sealed underground habitats to avoid the stormy, toxic surface. Feisty little Jolie Sauvage leads extreme surface adventure tours for rich executives. Jolie's friend, Dr. Judith Merida,...
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When Cormier Oil and Gas sends geologist Warren to the planet FH-358, they assume it's lifeless. But instead, Warren discovers something unexpected: a teenage girl named Mina who knows where the oil comes from. The company desperately wants Mina's knowledge, but she doesn't know how to communicate with them. Out of time and frustrated, they decide to risk Mina's life for the location of the oil. In this thrilling sci-fi adventure, Warren will have...
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A stunning discovery by a team of scientists on Venus endangers Earth itself At eighty-three, Dr. Helen Failia is nearing middle age but has lost none of her fighting spirit. The founder of Earth's first fully functioning colony on Venus, she will do anything to ensure that the home she's built and nurtured not only survives, but thrives. Despite her constant work, funding for the colony is running out, and she's dreading telling the ten thousand...
16) Zero Zero Zero
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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
17) Valor
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Veronica Korix's life was never ordinary. She has faced abandonment and betrayal, grown up in the wilds of Mount Vilgroth, and hunted down the worst thieves and criminals in the world. But nothing has prepared her for THIS. A great evil seeks her out and nearly succeeded in capturing her until she was rescued by - of all things - a massive, talking tree. Now, she and her allies must band together to withstand this new threat before it consumes them....
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Flying his Harrier, Major Dar Fantin stares into the North Carolina night sky with skepticism. Stopping in mid-flight is impossible at thirty-eight thousand feet, but that's exactly what an orange ball of light was doing. That was one of the last thoughts Dar had as he was sucked aboard the Nanta. Held captive, along with twenty-three other fighter pilots from around the world, he is assigned a guide. Littia educates her charge, imparting the language...
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A #1 international bestselling author offers up sixteen science fiction tales featuring aliens, magic, robots, time travelers, cyborgs, nanotech, and more.
These sixteen stories, ranging from flash fiction to novella length, extend from the far corners of space to the edge of time and back to cutting-edge explorations inspired by today's headlines. Read about clones and combat cyborgs, nanotechnology experiments and giant robots, super-sentient...
20) Alien Child
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Alone on Earth, a young girl searches for a new beginning Nita is a child of the Institute. Ever since she can remember, she has roamed its sterile halls, living out her youth in the care of a fur-covered guardian from another world. The Institute's computers give her everything she could want-except another human to share her life with. Long ago there were people at the Institute, but something happened that wiped them out. As she matures, Nita slowly...
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