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1) Blackbird
Author
Series
Blackbird (Anna Carey) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl wakes up on the Los Angeles subway tracks with no memory of who she is or how she got there. One thing she does know is that people are trying to kill her, and she must race to uncover her past and outwit her hunters before it's too late"--
2) Blackbird
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
3) Blackbird
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Language
English
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A collection of three novellas explores what happens when the past takes on a life of its own.
4) Blackbird
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A teen runaway falls in love with a fellow heroin junkie. But the two are far too deep in their drug addictions for love to offer any hope. The film was adapted from a play written by Adam Rapp.. Awards & Festivals:. Official Selection, South by Southwest Film Festival.. Winner, Best Narrative Film, Charlotte Film Festival. Winner,. Special Jury Prize for Directorial Achievement, Florida Film Festival..
5) Blackbird
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is torn between two worlds: her day job cleaning planes and her dream of becoming a pilot. When she takes steps to pursue aviation, she is met with resistance, and must fight against the odds to get her wings.
6) Blackbird
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This short drama sheds light on a little known part of history - Australia’s sugar slaves. Set in the late 1800s, it follows the story of Solomon Islander siblings, Kiko and Rosa, who were kidnapped from their Pacific island home and forced to work on a sugar cane plantation in Queensland in conditions akin to slavery. Shot entirely on location and in collaboration with communities in Mackay, Queensland - where these historical events took place...
7) Blackbird
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lily (Susan Sarandon) summons her daughters Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Anna (Mia Wasikowska) for one final family reunion as she looks to end her battle with a terminal illness. Amid the bittersweet farewell, unresolved feelings surface.
8) Blackbird
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English
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In a small town in Ark-La-Tex, Detective Jim Bonham has been assigned to a new case. On the outskirts of the town, a woman has been found brutalized and nailed to a cross. Bonham recognizes her immediately: it is Dr. Deborah Gold, one of the town's psychologists. The questions pile up quickly. How many perpetrators would it have taken to commit this atrocity? Why was a Roman coin found at the foot of the body? And why a murder as gruesome and cruel...
9) Blackbird
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English
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First published by St. Martin's in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet; if that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while,...
10) Blackbird
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Series
Language
English
Description
Is she willing to risk everything for the man she loves?
BLACKBIRD is the first book in the compelling contemporary fantasy trilogy about a tribe of shapeshifters, deep within the inhospitable forest of northern Maine USA, in an alternate dimension known as Blackwater Hills.
Ten years after departing this world, Michael Singleton returns to the valley nestled along the Blackwater River. Michael suffers from a rare disease, the curse of his tribe....
11) Blackbird
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Als der 15-jährige Morten Schumacher, genannt Motte, einen Anruf bekommt, ist in seinem Leben nichts mehr, wie es einmal war. Sein bester Freund Bogi ist plötzlich sehr krank. Kurz danach fährt Jacqueline Schmiedebach vom Einstein-Gymnasium auf ihrem Hollandrad an ihm vorbei, und die nächste Erschütterung nimmt ihren Lauf.
Zwischen diesen beiden Polen, der Möglichkeit des Todes und der Möglichkeit der Liebe, spitzen sich die Ereignisse zu,...
12) Blackbird
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Language
English
Description
From the USA Today best-selling author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Blackbird: A Tommy Donovan Story.
The clandestine Ground Division has a single mission. They exist for the sole purpose to take on tasks the United States government doesn't want to be implicated in.
They work in the shadow of the Central Intelligence Agency, but the men of the Ground Division are not CIA agents. Many of them come from the ranks of America's greatest war fighters - soldiers,...
13) Blackbird
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English
Description
An unlikely friendship forms between Sean Randall (Connor Jessup) and popular teen Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). After writing a death threat online, Sean is falsely accused of plotting a Columbine-like massacre. The police raid his home and find rifles, shotguns, and a 'hit list' with twenty names of students who bullied Sean. As the media and authorities claim another Columbine has been averted, Sean faces imprisonment in a youth dentation facility....
14) Blackbird
Author
Language
English
Description
Lily (Susan Sarandon) summons her daughters Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Anna (Mia Wasikowska) for one final family reunion as she looks to end her battle with a terminal illness. Amid the bittersweet farewell, unresolved feelings surface.
15) Blackbird
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Randy (Julian Walker) tries very hard to be a good person. Since his father (Isaiah Washington) left, Randy takes care of his emotionally disturbed mother (Mo'Nique), and he's the kind of friend all of his classmates can depend on. As strong as he seems on the outside, Randy is hiding a secret inner struggle and denial of his true self. It's not until he opens himself up to love that he discovers that becoming a man means accepting...
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"On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person....
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