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The Righteous Among the Nations - Polish Film Festival

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The film by Michal Szczerbic, “The Righteous”, tells the story of the hiding of a Jewish orphan girl, Hania, during the holocaust by a Polish couple. Many years after the war Hania, now an adult, returns to Poland to find the family of her saviours and asks them to accept the honorific title “The Righteous Among the Nations”.

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True North Favourite: The Pelee Project

The Pelee project : one woman's escape from urban madness by Jane Christmas

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Who is telling the truth?

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If you love psychological suspense, you're going to love Ruth Ware's novels. Her third book, The Lying Game has just released and yes, I loved it!

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A new character from Reichs!

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I'm always up for a new read from Kathy Reichs. Her newest book, Two Nights, is a stand alone that introduces us to a great female lead named Sunday Night.

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A Love Story in Ancient Rome - Quo Vadis, Polish Film Festival

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Quo Vadis movie is based on the novel under the same title by Henryk Sienkiewicz, renown Polish writer laureate of a 1905 Nobel Prize in literature . The book had several screen adaptations in the past but Jerzy Kawalerowicz film from 2001 is the first done by a Polish director.

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The Roots of the Evil-The Red Spider

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The Red Spider has been called an unconventional serial killer movie, crime thriller that succeeds in holding the attention despite ignoring the genre's rules, metaphysical or psychological thriller. Even its director Marcin Koszalka called it “neither a thriller nor a crime movie”.

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True North Favourite: The Stories We Tell

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The Stories We Tell by Sarah Polley

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Starting Point

"Huddled masses" arrived; some singular personalities emerged. New York City has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries.

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True North Favourite: I'm Me!

I'm Me! A Collection of Songs for Children by Charlie Hope

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So There!

In 2011, Stanley Fish's short book How to Write a Sentence became an instant New York Times Bestseller. His Winning Arguments may become a classic, too.

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