The Human Library
"SHE’S HUMAN BUT SHE’S A BOOK."
As Al drains colour from the modern world, a young woman and a Human Library "book" find themselves written into each other's margins, risking memory, policy, and erasure to hold onto something real.
"SHE’S HUMAN BUT SHE’S A BOOK."
As Al drains colour from the modern world, a young woman and a Human Library "book" find themselves written into each other's margins, risking memory, policy, and erasure to hold onto something real.
Charlotte Boreta
Maggie/Margaret Alinthorpe
El Rose
Ash McPherson
LeAnn Rae Lyn
Natasha/Book 447133N
Abbie Murray
Sammy
Hazel Wilson
Head Librarian
Patrick Gilman
Book 447229G
Fara Oni
Book 444998J
Nan Aye Thiri Aung
Book 440754F
Isla Rose Perkins
Book 459115L
As Al drains colour from the modern world, a young woman and a Human Library "book" find themselves written into each other's margins, risking memory, policy, and erasure to hold onto something real.
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.