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81) Wool
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
83) Kindred
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"Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
84) Dune
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go...
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"That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first...
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As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center. Feisty and streetwise, twelve-year-old Tirla used her extraordinary knack for languages to...
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Gap volume 2
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English
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Morn Hyland uses the powers of her brain implant to defend against an alien race that turns human bodies into inhuman forms.
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Maximum Ride volume 4
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English
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While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
91) Nocturna
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GKIDS Films
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Visually stunning and wildly inventive, this film explores the mystery of the night in a sweeping nocturnal adventure full of Alice in Wonderland-like characters and moody, dream-inspired landscapes. A young boy named Tim is plunged into the secret world of NOCTURNA, inhabited by curious creatures who control the night. Official selection at the **Venice Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of Best Animated Film at the...
92) How I Live Now
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Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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An American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside finds her idyllic summer days shattered as a conflict in Europe escalates, and the UK falls into a violent, chaotic military state.
93) Octav
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First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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An elderly man, Octav Petrescu (Marcel Iureș), returns to his childhood mansion in Romania with the intention of selling of it. Arriving there after a decades-long absence, Octav wanders through the estate and is confronted and transformed by the memories and spectres of his childhood, eventually finding answers to questions which have cast a shadow over his adult life.
94) The Beyond
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Astronauts modified with advanced robotics are sent through a newly discovered wormhole. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency race to discover what the astronauts encountered on their groundbreaking interstellar journey.
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly murdering women and using their parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois, a young...
96) Starfish
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1091 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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When a mysterious signal summons the end of the world, it appears that Aubrey (Virginia Gardner) may be the last person left on Earth. Trapped in her dead best friend’s apartment, her only clue is a Mixtape left by her friend, labeled “THIS MIXTAPE WILL SAVE THE WORLD.” Stricken with grief, seemingly alone in the world and surrounded by monstrous creatures, Aubrey’s reality frays at the edges as she’s thrust into the outside world. She begins...
97) Jonathan
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Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Two brothers inhabiting the same body are content to live life in shifts—until they fall for the same woman.
98) Class
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BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (361 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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From the Universe of Doctor Who. Like all teenagers, the students at Coal Hill Academy have hidden secrets and desires. They are facing their own worst fears, navigating a life of friends, parents, school, sex, sorrow - and possibly the end of existence. The very walls of space and time are starting to thin. Something is pressing on the other side: something waiting for its chance to kill everyone and everything, to bring us all into Shadow. Fear...
99) Save Yourselves!
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Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Jack (John Reynolds) and Su (Sunita Mani) are a hip Brooklyn couple who, like many of their friends, find themselves dependent on technology and unable to put down their phones. Fearing their mindless scrolling may impact their connection with each other, they seize the chance to head to an isolated cabin in the woods, vowing to unplug from the outside world for a week. Sheltered from texts and push notifications, they are blissfully unaware that...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
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