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The Shape of Water
DVD - 2018
"Director Guillermo del Torro creates a visually stunning dark fable focused on a top secret 1960s laboratory where a government agent cruelly experiments on an amphibious man. Gentle Elisa works at the facility and bonds with the captive, becoming..."
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The Shape of Water
DVD - 2018
An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she...
"Harry Hayward is a local legend in Minneapolis for the plot to murder dressmaker Kitty Ging, but this book does more than tell that story, it gets into a mind of a madman and does so effectively. Highly recommended for true crime and Minnesota his..."
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"On a winter night in 1894, a young woman's body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of Kittie Ging, a twenty-nine-year-old dressmaker, was the final...
"I was expecting good advice on how to downsize my belongings. What I got was good advice but also a charming almost-memoir from the author, who describes herself as someone between 80 and 100 years old. She has a lot to say about society and how i..."
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