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Two best-selling novelists combine their creativity and skill for two stories threaded together by the concept of a story jar-a place for memories and mementos that honor and encourage mothers. In Bedford's The Hair Ribbons, a mother's love and strength are passed down to a daughter facing the same disease that took her mother-breast cancer. In Hatcher's Heart Rings, a mother and daughter learn to reach across the generation gap and ultimately accept...
2) Flaming Ears
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Kino Lorber
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Deutsch
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A pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche that follows the tangled lives of three women. This story of obsession and revenge is also an anti-romantic plea for love in all its many forms. A truly underground film shot on Super 8 and newly restored, Flaming Ears is original for its playful disruption of narrative conventions, its witty approach to film genre, and its punk visual splendor.
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Fiction. Women's Studies. Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past experience. Instead she meets Ivy, a woman who through their conversations transports her to the intoxicating world of 1926 Cuba. Within the context of their friendship, Ivy's past begins to unravel...
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Bloomsbury
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English
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Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station....
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Montlake
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English
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When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen. Homicide detective Jane Munro pregnant and acutely attuned to the preciousness of life hopes the grim discovery will finally bring closure to the girls family. But for a group of Annalises old friends, once dubbed the Shoreview Six by the media, it threatens to expose a terrible pledge...
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