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1) Numero zero
Author
Language
English
Description
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was...
2) Tono-Bungay
Author
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tono-Bungay is a realist semiautobiographical novel narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded to help develop the business of selling Tono-Bungay, a patent medicine created by his ambitious uncle Edward. George devotes seven years to organizing the production and manufacture of a product, which he believes to be 'a damned swindle'. He then quits day-to-day involvement with the enterprise in favor of aeronautics.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as...
6) Fake like me
Author
Language
English
Description
"After a fire decimates her studio, including the seven billboard-size paintings for her next show, a young, no-name painter is left with an impossible task: recreate her art in three months--or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into an exclusive retreat in upstate New York famous for its outrageous revelries and glamorous artists. And notorious as the place where brilliant young artist Carey Logan drowned in the...
7) Crome Yellow
Author
Language
English
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Description
Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Inspired by his stay at Garsington Manor with members of the Bloomsbury Group, Crome Yellow, Huxley's debut novel, satirizes the society of England's intellectual and political elite. In addition to its autobiographical content, the novel investigates such themes as spirituality, the nature and composition of art, and the fear of a dystopian future.
Invited to spend part of the summer...
8) Almost Royal
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This faux- reality series follows two clueless British aristocrats on a trip to the USA. George and Poppy Carlton enjoy privileged lives as distant descendants of the British royal family. The siblings - 50th and 51st in line to the throne - have agreed to a camera crew following them on their unconventional royal tour. But while the siblings are actually played by comedians, the unsuspecting public have no clue these two aren't for real. Cue bemusement...
Author
Language
English
Description
Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises, she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press will discreetly call "a personal friend of the president's." Does that explain the flowers, the get-well wishes at a press briefing, the hush money offered by a lawyer at her hospital bedside? Rachel's recovery is soothed by comically doting parents, matchmaking...
11) The heap
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Language
English
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Description
Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés was once a city unto itself, bustling with life and excitment. Today this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and (occasionally) bodies from the building's mountainous remains,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Anthony Trollope's 1875 novel, "The Way We Live Now", is a biting satire of the wealthy and powerful in Victorian England. Augustus Melmotte, a wealthy financier moves to London and begins to gather investors for an American railway venture. When his daughter Marie takes up with the dissolute gold-digging aristocrat Felix Carbury, Melmotte steps in to block the union. Multiple subplots involving schemes to move up in society and thwart others from...
13) Reality
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder stars in this wonderfully weird and hilarious Hollywood satire, featuring a mysterious VHS tape, killer TVs and a giant rat.
14) Dear Dictator
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America.
15) Kenny
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Mockumentary follows numerous misadventures of a porta-john worker through both his personal and professional life, including an oddly glamorous excursion to the Pumper & Cleaner Expo in Nashville, Tn.
16) We Are Klang
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (168 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Original, rude and at times, just a bit odd, We Are Klang are set to pick up where The Young Ones and The League of Gentleman have left off. Bursting into the Edinburgh Festival in 2004, Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood scooped the Spirit of the Fringe award, and have been unstoppable ever since. The series sees all three giving weekly narrative stories, the telling of which is inevitably derailed by songs and stupidity. An enchanted and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Language
Undetermined
Description
This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogath and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.
Publisher
Kinonation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"SEX, DRUGS & BICYCLES" answers the question: is having month-long double paid vacations, no fear of homelessness, and universal healthcare the nightmare we've been warned about? The answer may surprise you.
19) Back to blood
Author
Language
English
Description
A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated...
20) Player piano
Author
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999.
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut--wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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