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Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
2) Ask the dust
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California.
4) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
5) Small island
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence"--Bloomingdale's. Fleeing the K.G.B., Vladimir wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Though Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love this strange and wondrous new land.
7) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?
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