Summary: Alison accepts that the spirits she has seen since she was a child will never leave her. After nearly dying during a seance in which she was inhabited by the spirit of Robert's dead son, she determines that the dead should not dictate her life and she wants to help the living. Robert, meanwhile, is in turmoil. Once a total skeptic, his beliefs have been shaken by what he witnessed at the seance...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AFTSummary: In which we serve (1942): A sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda telling the tale of a group of Royal Navy sailors as they battle the Germans in the Mediterranean and of the lives they left back home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DAVSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODGoodchild, Claire
Summary: As long as people have lived, they have longed for wisdom and comfort from those who have died. In The Book of Séances, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild takes readers on a journey over the historical landscape of spiritualism and guides questers through safe practices for cultivating a connection with the other side. The Book of Séances details the four types of spiritual encounters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious / Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.91 GOOSummary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021